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First up, back up your chosen voice zip file.
Then you'll need to unzip your chosen voice zip file.
In the 'config' folder open your chosen 'commands.csv' (ft yds etc) in notepad then procede as previously mentioned.
Save this updated .csv file in config folder.
Re zip up the audio and config folders together with the flag bmp and info.txt.
Be sure these are NOT in a 'v_eng_uk_f1' root folder in the new zip file.
copy this new zip file to \iGO\voice on your card overwriting the older one.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject:
Excellent, thanks for the find. Pity I can't test this here in the US... But this could probably also be used to create another announcement immediately at the turn. _________________ Lutz
Joined: Jun 28, 2004 Posts: 91 Location: Manchester - UK
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:58 pm Post subject:
I'd never had a look in all those zip files, only looked in the data.zip one. Does seem highly configurable. Must have a play with this when I get the chance.
I did notice in data.zip that TMC icons are in there, and there are other data files pertaining to TMC. Makes you wonder why we have to wait so long for iGO to get the features that obviously exist in Mio Map v3.
Had the opportunity to test over the weekend.
If you want an announcement to turn just before the junction, this seems to work.
Edit your chosen commands.csv (yds, ft etc) Find the sections below and ADD the red lines...
Got my Mio C510 yesterday and after a few hours, I began to realise that this this really is the dog's dangly bits. I have (up until a couple of days ago) owned a Nuvi and before that a Navman 520 and before that TT5 PDA setup and I really do think that this thing is by far the best mix of all those units & systems.
I haven't actully taken it out anywhere yet (will do that today) but I have a feeling that I won't be disappointed!
The only thing that it appears not to be able to do (unlike the Nuvi) is to play MP3's and navigate at the same time. Not too worried about that as the kids have an Archos hooked into the car anyway.
If anyone wants more info etc, just let me know...
As far as the unit goes, I've had a day's mucking about with it and here's a quick summing up:
1) I-Go on this machine (aka Miomap 3) is deeply impressive. It just does so much more than the competition and it does it better and quicker.
2) There appears to be no crazy routes at all! I've planned several routes on which the Nuvi & TT delivered mad routing - preferring single track roads over A roads, jumpingon and off Motorways etc, and the 510 has not selected any of these. In fact the routing appears to be balanced and sensible.
3) Selecting 'Lorry' will definitely generate a different route to 'car'. One time it told me that my destination was unreachable by lorry (v.narrow road) but it was fine by car!
4) POI's are OK. Not as fabulous as Mio make them out to be and not as widespread as Nuvi POI's. Still, POIHandler apparently support the C510 / C710 so there will be zillions of them soon!
5) The 510 is a bargain. All you need to do is buy a SD card (v. cheap at the moment) and stick the euro maps on it. Why would anyone buy the 710? ( there's some doubt about the 710's TMC being free in the UK)
6)The voices are OK but I'm sure there'll be better ones coming soon. Basically you get US male (OK ish) and UK male (sounds like someone on the Simpsons doing a upper clarse (!!) british accent!)
7) Love the configurability and ease of use. I think there are more clicks / taps needed to do the same job compared to Nuvi / TT but not much difference.
8) Display is very bright and clear. Non reflective surface works v. well but feels a little 'scratchy' on your nails.
9) Speed cams and route speed warnings are totally configurable and work REALLY well.
10) If I were Garmin or TT, I'd pack a fresh pair of underpants. This thing is a great bit of kit and quite frankly anyone who plays with this for an hour is going to want to ditch their Nuvis and TT's. I say this from experience. I showed it to 3 friends during the course of yesterday and two of the ordered one immediately and the third is putting his TT One in eBay today!
Be warned. Don't play with one unless you want to buy!!
Had the opportunity to test over the weekend.
If you want an announcement to turn just before the junction, this seems to work.
Edit your chosen commands.csv (yds, ft etc) Find the sections below and ADD the red lines...
If you look at the commands.csv file it seems that the 'default' turn announcements are for manoeuvres to the left eg. "turn left" or "turn slightly left"
I would suspect that the system sets a flag for the turn. If the flag is set, the system changes the 'left' to 'right', then amends the announcement to suit.
The 'now turn left' does seem to work, although I have increased the 10 yds to 15 as it would announce the turn as you passed it.
Also the 'bear left' modification has proved incorrect as it is the 'left' bit which is the variable.
eg The 'turn slightly left' seems to be made up of a 'turn' and a 'slighty left' which makes it difficult to change this to 'bear left' we would get something like 'turn bear left' but it isn't working.
Hi,
- I just came home from the UK, after a few days of driving I slowly understood what was the problem with roundabouts there that I had to choose the lane by the time I entered the roundabout. That posted modification here does the trick, that's what I'll change too.
- about commands.csv: the last column which reads "turn left" is just text which is not processed. For "bear left" you have to make a new template, a copy of turn which says bear and use it in "slight_left" and "slight_right" with left and right as parameters. I'll leave the rest to you to find out
- for "turn left now" use "1" instead of "10". Lower "minsilence" if you want to hear it more, because with 3 if there wasn't at least 3 seconds of silence after the last announcement (at 100 or 50 meters), it'll be supressed.
Best regards,
Fable (of iGO if you haven't figured it out by now ;) )
Fable, I'm looking at adding the commands that drogg suggested earlier and found that the commands.cvs file has different commands for some of the turns than the commands_yd.cvs file has. E.G.
commands.cvs
,"50[X~1,near,minsilence=3]","*take","take %X %* in %dist %then1"
commands_yd.cvs
,"50[X~1,near,minsilence=3]","take %X %* in %dist %then1","turn left"
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