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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 4:50 pm    Post subject: "Silent" overspeed warning Reply with quote

I normally run CamerAlert in the background, behind my Sat Nav app. I like the overspeed warnings flashing up on my screen, but I don't want to have a sound notification. That is because often I am dealing with mobile cameras and can see that it is not in the layby or on the bridge.

Am I right in thinking that I have to have both visual and sound or neither? If so would it be possible to introduce a "no sound" option in the list rather than "none", which removes both?
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you able to turn down (to silent) the "media" volume on your phone?
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AliOnHols wrote:
Are you able to turn down (to silent) the "media" volume on your phone?

Yes I am am, but then I don't get any other sounds from CamerAlert, such as the warnings of cameras. I was only referring to the overspeed warning option which flashes up on screen (which I want) and sounds (which I don't want) every two seconds - very annoying if you are in a mobile camera zone at midnight!.

In addition your suggestion means I won't get any other sounds I want, such as the sat nav instructions for example. I like the CamerAlert app much more than just having the cameras as POIs on the sat nav app because the warnings are directional, and therefore you get a lot less spurious ones. That is why I often have sat nav and CamerAlert running together.

I was assuming (hoping!) that it was easy to just include a "no sound" option in the list, which would keep the visual warning but have no sound warning, as well as the present "none" option, which stops both. A new version is coming out soon I understand and I wonder if that facility could be included.

Hint hint Wink
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry, I misunderstood.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problems - it keeps bumping my post along until somebody from PGPSW says "yes" Smile or "no" Sad
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

peterc10 wrote:
A new version is coming out soon I understand and I wonder if that facility could be included.

Hint hint Wink


Oh ...... just noticed there is a new version on the Market
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 3:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can achieve that by butchering a mp3 file to play silence ( for example ding.mp3 and then placing that on the SD card under Android/data/com.pocketgpsworld.cameralert/files. The select "ding" for the overspeed warning and it will use your butchered file.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lbendlin wrote:
You can achieve that by butchering a mp3 file to play silence ( for example ding.mp3 and then placing that on the SD card under Android/data/com.pocketgpsworld.cameralert/files. The select "ding" for the overspeed warning and it will use your butchered file.
Lutz, thanks for the suggestion. Does this have to be a real MP3, say a 1sec recording of silence, or would a zero byte text file, renamed to ding.mp3 work?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The app would try playing it so I would assume it would need an actual mp3 file? You could try, maybe Lutz has coded for the inevitable and it won't crash Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are already two silent mp3 files in the package. Use one of them.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lbendlin wrote:
There are already two silent mp3 files in the package. Use one of them.


Ahh, but which one sounds nicest? Cool
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i prefer the 500 ms one over the 2 s one. I like brevity.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lbendlin wrote:
There are already two silent mp3 files in the package. Use one of them.
OK, at the risk of sounding stupid, can I just say

"package"?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

the Android application comes in a file with the extension ".apk" and we assume this means "application package" or some such. Let me know if you want to receive the files per email.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lbendlin wrote:
the Android application comes in a file with the extension ".apk" and we assume this means "application package" or some such. Let me know if you want to receive the files per email.

Could you send me these files please and I will then try it.

I think I would still prefer the "no sound" option, because a silent mp3 will still switch off whatever I am listening to (either on phone or via BT car kit on the car audio). I just want the overspeed warning flashing on the screen - my phone is close enough to my line of sight to notice it.

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