Speed Camera Warning Tweaks ?

turbo10 · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:05 am Post subject: Speed Camera Warning Tweaks ?

Hi
Traveling down the motorway yesterday and in about a 10 mile stretch received about 5 spoken warnings informing me of speed cams, my attention is alerted and I listen to the info, only to be told that all 5 were a mobile or gatso 30mph or a 40mph warning from a road I am running parallel with, going under or over.
I know the warnings are tweakable to warn if on a planned route, but if you are just letting TT run and warn you of cameras with no route planned, are the speed camera warnings tweakable or are there any other tricks or adjustments to stop this happening?

DennisN · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:58 am Post subject:

I'm afraid not - if you haven't selected "Warn Only on Route", you'll be warned for everything within the "crow flies" radius distance you have set.
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Anita · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:31 am Post subject:

If you set a destination using a silent voice (downloadable via TT HOME) you won't hear the directions, but can use "Warn only on route".
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DennisN · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject:

tonygold · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 14, 2006 Posts: 417

dennis
if you select 'disable voice' will you still hear the ogg files speed cam warnings or will all remain silent.
thanks.

Anita · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject:

So it does, Dennis. I'll have to remember that. I've always used silent voice!

And yes, Tony, you will still hear the ogg files using either method.
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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject:

But you'll STILL get quite a few spurious alerts.... especially from mobile sites located on the roundabout at the end of sliproads.

turbo10 · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

Anita · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject:

OK, you still get a few, but I found it was a vast improvement when I switched to "Warn only if on route"!
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turbo10 · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:

Aye, well, like the man said, you make your bed, you lie in it. There's no middle ground I'm afraid. It's either the way you have it, warn wherever and without a route set, or warn only on route and you MUST set a route.

I think when Andy said you'll still get quite a few spurious ones with Only on Route setting, he probably meant quite a lot. Unfortunately the TomTom "band" is wide enough to include a lot you'd think wouldn't sound off. For me, like Anita, it IS better, but I have become accustomed to the spurious ones and as I never speed anyway, they are just good company for a lone driver!
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Andy_P · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:29 am Post subject:

Calomax · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:14 pm Post subject:

But we can hope Joker

Sorry Dennis, I didn't mean it. No really, I didn't mean it Cheers!

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Anita · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject:

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