ALK Launch CoPilot Live Premium

willton · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 29, 2007 Posts: 150

This is great news - thanks to PGPSW for informing us of th discount which i suddenly remembered in the middle of the night and snapped it up this morning.

I'm new to ALK, and I know there was a convoluted method of installing the PGPSW POIs onto V8 which put me off. But reports here suggest its easier to install on this new premium version.

Can a wise person post a quick dummies guide so I can give it a try on android (Galaxy S). I gather that the V8 separate files can be copied onto the phone SD card via USB link. What about the ALK files - they need to be deleted incl the related 'hidden' files? Can it be that simple Shocked

Im gagging to give this a go and see the PGW cams actually on the map rather than just via CamerAlert. Does this mean i can finally retire my Asus MyPal with Destinator
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fredbloggs123 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 25, 2008 Posts: 40

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dave_a · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:16 am Post subject:

For anyone asking about traffic, I used this today for the first time on a 50 mile trip. It is better than v8 but there are still improvements that can be made. A lot of the following is from memory and it is only one small test and I might have missed something in the menus to bring up details of traffic incidents for example

Firstly, someone was asking about a subscription purchased with v8. It had no problem recognising that I had an active copilot traffic subscription bought originally with v8 which I was concerned about with licensing issues I have had with the main application in the past.

While driving along the M4, after a while it picked up a minor incident near the end of the route and the traffic display bar was shown on the right hand side. The route is shown as a green bar which has yellow or red colours to indicate where the traffic incidents are relative to your current position and the length indicates the distance over which the incident occurs. At the bottom it shows the total time delay. There are screenshots on the copilot site that show this.

Clicking on the bar brings up the map and shows a green route with orange or red where the incidents are which is similar to google but google is clearer because copilot shows a green border along the whole route so a major incident is shown as a red line with a green outline. Not sure why it just can't be red?? If the delay is short, it is almost impossible to see because there will be a small yellow/red dot surrounded by green!

Also I could not find a way to get a description of the incident which is a little annoying. I am not sure what would happen if the incident involves a road closure! In the previous version I think it told you if there was an accident or delays due to roadworks? Not too sure if I am remembering correctly.

Soon after this I hit a queue which copilot hadn't warned me about. Switching to the radio suggested that an accident had happened 15 min preciously and switching to Google maps clearly showed the delay. I was stuck for about another 15 min and copilot never showed the delay. I know the traffic information is release independent but just another example of where Google is often better and improving all the time.

After I got through this traffic, the 1 min delay had changed to about 15 min delay and I got the warning asking if I wanted to re-route. However I was told there was no quicker route and clicking this brought up a display with the current route and one alternative route which was the same time and distance. I assume this was actually the same route as the current route but at this point the app froze and I had to kill and restart.

By the time I had restarted, the delay had 'gone' so couldn't test any further.

I have some further comments/issues:

- Max distance to show traffic is still 100 miles. I don't like this if I am driving long distances and I have more than 1 option to start with.
- The minimum traffic update interval is now 5 min! Previously in v8 it was 1 min, why change this??? When approaching an incident, I like to decrease the interval to get regular updates to see if it is worth trying a different route but now I have to go to the active traffic map in the menu to get the latest information.
- This brings up another point. Traffic is not listed on the quick menu. Instead I need a few clicks to get to the traffic (assuming there are no incidents and the traffic bar is not displayed). One option on the quick menu is 'Walk'! I know not everyone has traffic subscription but do ALK think that when driving along a motorway at 70, I suddenly want to get out and walk the rest of the way?? Just another example of poor UI design in my opinion
- I can't find a way to look at traffic on other roads. For example, if I approach Birmingham and it shows the M6 is busy, I don't think the map will show what the M5 or M6 toll is like. Hopefully the 'alternative routes' will take this into account.

In conclusion, I think the better display bar for the traffic means that overall it is an improvement and hopefully the alternative routes will not cause crashes every time. But it is still not good enough and I would not be surprised if Google have further improved their traffic by the time my subscription comes up for renewal.

ngoldman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 11

ngoldman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 11

willton · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 29, 2007 Posts: 150

ngoldman ... Try this - the files you are using are different to fredbloggs123 successful install:

ngoldman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 11

willton · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 29, 2007 Posts: 150

have you got rid of all the old ALK camera stuff ?

ngoldman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 11

willton · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 29, 2007 Posts: 150

there is an open issue re POI importing to v9. although it is possible to get the cameras working I understand, other POIs dont.

you should check on the ALK forums
http://getsatisfaction.com/copilotlive/problems/active

ngoldman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 11

Scottmeister71 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 16, 2006 Posts: 1

Has anybody yet to to try this on their iPhone?

It's getting very mixed reviews on the app store but it seems a lot of this is related to the maps not showing, but I believe there's a simple step to resolve this, so the rating may be unfairly low at the moment.

However, apparently the text to speech is less reliable that v8 at getting the pronunciation correct for streets.

The other thing mentioned is that the speed cameras son't show on the maps.

I'd be interested to get any views before buying this. Incidentally it's on for half price at £14.99 for the next few days for the UK version.

tivoboy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 18, 2004 Posts: 23

I have to say, ALK has always been able to confuse the customer with so many versions.

ONE issue with this new version is for North America. The legacy CPL NA included Canada, while the new CP USA (the only NA version I can find) does NOT include canada. So, a user with CPLNA, will have to buy CP USA and then ADD Canada for a fee.

Darren · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:17 am Post subject:

I've been using Premium on iPhone for some weeks now and it works very well. Works fine under iOS5 Beta too unlike TomTom which has some issues at present.
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