Setting up a Start25

vidman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 29, 2013 Posts: 22

Finally bit the bullet and bought a TomTom Start25 WE maps on special offer from Halfords - came with a free high capacity charger for £99 - and promptly signed up to PocketGPS.

Still getting to grips with the settings, I downloaded the Zoned DB and am getting spoken and sound warnings for fixed cameras but just sounds for Mobiles and Average speed cameras.

All cameras are set the same - for short voice - but I get no voice warnings for anything other than Fixed Gatsos. Am I setting something wrong? any advice please.

Is there any conflict with the standard TomTom gatso warnings??

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 1:58 am Post subject:

Sorry no-one has replied before now.... Crying or Very sad

Taking your questions in reverse order... (like the Oscars!)

No there won;t be any conflict with the TomTom built-in warnings. you can switch them off, or uninstall them, or leave them running beside the PGPSW ones. Any of those will work OK.

The problem with the voices definitely looks like your settings, but I'll admit the instructions on this site for units capable of text-to-speech are not terribly clear at this point.

If you have downloaded one of the PGPSW "voice packs" (at the same time as you download the camera details) then you shouldn't be selecting "short voice" in the settings, as the "short" and "full" "voice" settings use the TomTom's own text-to-speech" engine.
You want to be using the supplied audio files instead, which TomTom thinks will be sound effects.

So you need to pick "Sound Effect" for every single camera type and speed.

Assuming you are using the default voice pack, it will ask "Is this the sound you want to use?" EVEN THOUGH YOU WON'T HEAR ANYTHING. Just select "Yes" and move on (as per the instructions).

If you think the default PGPSW voice packs are a bit too "wordy" then I can give you a link for a shorter one I created , which I've always used myself.
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vidman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 29, 2013 Posts: 22

Thanks for the reply,

I have reset all the warnings to sound effect but do not get the question 'is this the sound you want to hear' it just goes straight to the 'on route' question which I have not ticked as I often do not set a route but still want the warnings. I downloaded the zoned complete with the default voice pack and if I play the ogg files on my PC they work fine so they downloaded OK

Is there another setting on the Start 25 I should have set first to get the missing question

vidman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 29, 2013 Posts: 22

Right - have done an extensive drive around a wide variety of local camera sites and am getting PGPS warnings for them all BUT several indicated (and known to me) mobile sites only appear on the screen but with no audio warnings at all.

To clarify, I have received verbal and icon warnings for 3 known mobile sites but for 2 others I received no audio, beeps or voice, but the icon appeared on the screen. 1 of these was at the other end of a village where there was a fixed camera on entry, received voice and icon for the fixed but some 800yds later a mobile icon appeared with no audio warning - I have the 30mph mobile warning set to 400yds. The second mobile site with no audio just icon warning is miles from the nearest warning site of any description.

Are there some idiosyncrasies in the PGPS DB or operation that I should know about.

M8TJT · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 5:54 pm Post subject:

vidman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 29, 2013 Posts: 22

Have not turned off the TomTom camera DB so have checked the locations of the 2 I know on the linked map and neither of the 2 mobiles I know of are shown on the map. I have reported them via the map - the info is also below

Centre Latitude: 52.22675 Longitude: -0.67745 - in the village of Bozeat nothents - have reported this

Single Direction Mobile (ID#0), Heading: 315, Lat:52.22677, Lon:-0.67741 - I have reported this

Both are known to me but must have been id'd on my TomTom as part of their DB

There is obviously allot I still have to learn about using the PGPS DB and web site

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 10:51 pm Post subject:

Those two Lat/Lon co-ordinates are in virtually the same place???????

vidman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 29, 2013 Posts: 22

Said I still had a lot to learn - obviously I copied the data from one sighting twice - sure I reported the two locations separately via the map interface.

Just suffering from keyboard/screen dyslexia.

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