POI Observer on Sony Nav-U50/70: full instructions

marlow05 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 15

*or my wav playing*

dazaroo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 25, 2007 Posts: 3

Anyone found a way round "OpenCommDevice: Failed to open Error No 123"?
im trying to put the POI observer on a NV-U70 V1.05 but cant get round this error message.

marlow05 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 15

Yes dazaroo i posted how to on page 4 of this forum.

You need to reinstall the software onto your sat nav using the CD that came with it.

After that it will be at version 1.0

Then cick the link on the CD to update it from sony-europe.com

Install the update and it will be ver 1.05

This is the version that this tutorial was written for.[/quote]

Dippy · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 124

Lord, this seems to be heavy weather for you. Be easier to train a barrel of monkeys in a wheelbarrow attached to the front of your car to hoot every time they see a camera. Just an idea.

Most likely you have your POI Observer config file wrong so it can't find the sound and picture is all.

Triple double check that step first.

dazaroo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 25, 2007 Posts: 3

marlow, im using V1.05 already, is there nothing else i can do?

dazaroo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 25, 2007 Posts: 3

Dippy, can you post a link so i can download the barrel of monkeys? i think that will be easier but ive googled for it with no luck! Laughing

marlow05 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 15

Really sorry Dippy. These sort of things always happen to me.

I really apreciate your help and patience with me and i think you deserve a medal, but Im so close to finishing this its untrue. Its gotta be a small error somewhere.

Im at college at the mo so will have a look at it this evening hopefully followed by a post saying ive done it. :D

marlow05 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 15

Dazzaroo. when POI Oberver is open click the virt comm manager symbol at the bottom of the window.

You should find that the braud rate isnt set in there (mine wernt) change it to 9600 and click OK.

Now you should be able to activate POI Observer Smile

marlow05 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 15

Hey dippy. I got my sat nav to sorta work. What happens now is that i get a red square when i come near a camera and no sound or picture. I think its because it cant find the wav and bitmap files.

When setting up POI Configurator in the bmp and wav fields it wont allow me to put ".pocketgps_uk_gatso.wav" otherwise it wont convert because it cannot find the file. So therefore i put "C:\Documents and Settings\Daniel Marlow\Desktop\Speed camera database\pocketgps_uk_gatso.wav".

Will this be the problem? if so what do i do next please?

SCG · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 13, 2007 Posts: 4

marlow05 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 15

Ive done it and it now fully works on my nav-u50 :D

Thats so so much dippy and a few of the others who have helped me. I have finally got there in the end !!!

I never though i would get he but i have and its great !!! WHOOOOO!!!

SCG · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 13, 2007 Posts: 4

Hi Marlow 5 Well done. Perhaps you could enlighten me as to the solution to get the bitmaps to display amd not just the red box.

Many thanks

marlow05 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 15

sounds to me like your bitmap and wav files dont have the same name.

They need to be the same so they both work at the same time.

Let me know if it works and i will try to suggest other things.

my file names are:

"pocketgps_uk_mobile.bmp"
"pocketgps_uk_mobile.wav"

"pocketgps_uk_gatso.bmp"
"pocketgps_uk_gatso.wav"

etc, etc

Dippy · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 124

Yes, the filenames must match. And hurrah, another success!

Now you can move to step two - personal pois. I have them running on mine.

Same thing, I just put a new category on for "tourist points", so when I get near something interesting a wav tells me about it.

In my case I've put castles in with little potted histories and their dates, but of course you could add pubs and their opening times or geology in the hill you're driving past or whatever interests you as you're out and about!

Just add them to your speed camera directory on your PC, add a line to the config file and then compile as usual. Easy.

I used the AT&T speech engine (they have a web page) to make the wavs for these, and found suitable icons on the web for the bmps.

You can find the longitude and latitude of the points from various mapping software. I used Google Earth.

marlow05 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 15

Yeah great idea but i feel if i mess about with it, it wont work or ill get another problem :P

All im going to do is categorize the camera types for speeds.

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