New way to do custom POI warnings in TomTom 5 & 6

mikealder · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:43 am Post subject:

You would chose to not select "warn only if POI on route" IF you drive around without a destination set and still want speed camera warnings. If you always drive with a route planned then you can select this box and get warnings, either way this setting will not alter or affect your problem getting the ogg warning files working.
If you have the files in the correct place, and of the correct names, use the advanced planning option to set a route past a few known speed cams in the local area and listen to what happens (set the replay speed to 100%) - this saves bothering taking the car out this late! - Mike

rugrat2 · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:27 am Post subject:

This is a great way to set warnings and still have bells and whistles..... :D
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korndog · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:06 am Post subject:

gpssparky · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

Noony · Lifetime Member Joined: Oct 13, 2003 Posts: 135

One reason to warn when 'not on route' is when you have cancelled the route, you still get the warning even if you are not being guided somewhere.

doodaa · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 15, 2006 Posts: 4

Is there anything similar one can do to use text to speech instead? (on a 910)

annoyingly, their speed camera plus service doesn't allow selecting sounds (it's not configureable), and they don't turn up in the poi list, so I guess something similar could be done. I wish it could just synthesize a text.

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject: Re: with text to speech?

doodaa · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 15, 2006 Posts: 4

Yes, I've seen that, as I have another free database installed in the past.
I just registered to TT's database because of the realtime updates feature.

Right now I'm digging for what changes when I set that option for other POIS. If I could figure out where and in what format the data is stored... I'm expecting the file to be the map .cfg file, which I cannot tell what format is being used to store in it.

bobthebuilder · Banned Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 9

Also works perfect on the Nokia N80 & N73 Mobile phone.

Must remember ellio7's tip that you have to re set each gategary re warn when near otherwise you just get 3 warning beeps

Tom Tom have really come up with the goods on their latest version.

And many thanks to pocketgps for the camera database and tips, plus many thanks to Rays Tom Tom site for Liz's voice warnings

:D :D :D

doodaa · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 15, 2006 Posts: 4

I forgot to mention I don't live in the UK sorry. Else I'd be happy to subscribe to your speed camera lists =)

doodaa · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 15, 2006 Posts: 4

furryfred · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject:

I've downloaded the data.chk file for Liza and it is good!

I now am getting ready with the .ogg files and note the comments about re-naming them to the Pocketgps_uk_ ov2 and bmp files.

Most is self explanatory but which of the ov2 files refers to the simple gatso, mobile or specs (with no stated limits). For gatso there are ...._gatso_tba and ..._gatso_var. I assume it is ...gatso_tba - but am I right?

If I am then I assume that it will be ...mobile_tba and ...specs_tba.

Please confirm or correct me[b]
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mikealder · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject:

The .ogg file name must match the .bmp and .ov2 file - I will post a full list later.
For the record though this even works on TomTom Navigator version 5 - Just checked it out on my main PDA and its great! - I hate to think how much time was expended with all the extra files and programs that were created to get around what was a simple fix!
Mike

korndog · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject:

furryfred · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject:

Thanks. Done it - now to try it!

I have alterered the .ogg file name as these may well be more longer lasting than when I upgrade my ov2 and bmp files every month and would have to do it to all them every time I downloaded.

Can someone recommend me a programme that will make an .ogg file for say a .wav so I can try putting one in for Witherspoons!
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