tom tom one, Warnings of Speed camera's HELP!!!!!!!

912uk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Posts: 18

Hi I have after many moons managed to down load the camera's onto my sat nav.. hooo ray!!!

BUT

I can see them on there perfect but as I tested it out. Nothing happens when you drive past!! it just shows in icon..

Now I'm confussed and before I get upset and go off on one I thought I would post here..

how do i get it to warn me as soon as i get nr a camera or a black spot!!

I did follow the down load and set up instructions I printed it off and did it line by line but where it says about manage your proximity warnings.. that was not on my tomtom atall!!!! so i can't find that is this the key to completing it ..........

if this is not the case and all the £19 buys me is static symbols I wish I had paid the £34 and got them direct from TomTom and got the traffic bit free!!

OK over to the experts to tell me what I want to here and help me get it working...

I hope..

it's not good when I go off on one!! Cool

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject:

First of all....

Which model TomTom do you have exactly??

912uk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Posts: 18

tom tom one bought it nov last year has uk and euro maps on it.. it's not v3 as that is the new one with no momory card that i do know for sure, mine i would say is a v2

Oldboy

912uk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Posts: 18

right thanks... I have now see all that extra stuff on there.. Ok you might want to add a note to the notes ( 20 )

" SCROLL though the menus to find 'Change Prefer.........."

for note 20

just looking at this as a NON tec person.. I find lots of instructions are writen by tec people for tec people..

ok off for a drive to find a camera!!

912uk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Posts: 18

ok thanks alot, yes it works ok now.. phew..

I now have it sounding off with the hooter 350 yards before hand.. I take it , that it can only let you know once ( hooter ) and not another one as you get very close.. we have all done it know a camera is there in 400 yards.. just then some idiot cuts in front of you and puts you off , next thing is you just done 32mph!!!

Ok just out of interest how do I go about getting the traffic up date ? I take it that's a tom tom only item......

My misis is very happy as it can now hooter when we get with in 500 yards of shops!! Stop!

Next question is I have bought a SD card from Ebay with Austrailia on it and I am going next year. Can I add Camera's to this and if so where is the place to camera updates for WA.. there bloody everywhere!!!!!!

mikealder · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

You can get a second warning from the device if you really need to but it involves a bit of work renaming files.

Each POI contains a .bmp file (the icon) and a .ov2 (the data containing the locations) so if you install and configure a second duplicate set of files with slightly different names you will get two warnings per camera:

pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.ov2
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.bmp

pocketgps_uk_gatso_30_2.ov2
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30_2.bmp

Appending _2 to the end of each file will provide the files you need, load these to the device and configure the _2 POI files for a much closer warning, if you are using ogg warnings for spoken alerts you will also have to duplicate these preferably prior to configuring the warnings on the device (you don't want to do it twice) - Mike

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject:

Mike mentioned "ogg files".......if you want, you can change your hooter for a real voices saying "Warning Gatso ahead, speed limit 30 MPH" or similar.
You need to choose the "speed-zoned" set of files when you download the database, and then you get the voice warnings by CLICKING HERE

912uk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Posts: 18

thanks guys I feel I am now getting what I paid for and I will look to do this later in the week I am off to London tomorrow and I feel confident in the knoledge that I have some thing looking out for me at the mo..

I looked on the map and there are camera's every where!!!!!! Shocked

I normaly zoom along those bits.. so I will be more aware now......

thanks alot...

next step is to get a map for my phone tytnII HTC phone so I will be looking out for a memory card and a map...

912uk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Posts: 18

just had a look at those voice alerts thanks .....

ok so I have tried out the one I like simple one it says warning gasto ahead 30

ok I take it that one is a sample of the 30 but the whole file has the different speed limits..to suit the road..

eg it's not going to say 30 on the motorway is it?

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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:06 am Post subject:

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Andy_P · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject:

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