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peterc10 Frequent Visitor
Joined: Aug 21, 2005 Posts: 1761 Location: Kent, England
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 4:50 pm Post subject: "Silent" overspeed warning |
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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? _________________ Peter
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AliOnHols Pocket GPS Verifier
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:47 am Post subject: |
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Are you able to turn down (to silent) the "media" volume on your phone? _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
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peterc10 Frequent Visitor
Joined: Aug 21, 2005 Posts: 1761 Location: Kent, England
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:42 am Post subject: |
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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 _________________ Peter
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AliOnHols Pocket GPS Verifier
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, I misunderstood.
Ali. _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
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peterc10 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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No problems - it keeps bumping my post along until somebody from PGPSW says "yes" or "no" _________________ Peter
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peterc10 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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peterc10 wrote: | A new version is coming out soon I understand and I wonder if that facility could be included.
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Oh ...... just noticed there is a new version on the Market _________________ Peter
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 3:37 am Post subject: |
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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
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JockTamsonsBairn Lifetime Member
Joined: Jan 10, 2004 Posts: 2777 Location: Bonnie Scotland (West Central)
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:43 am Post subject: |
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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? _________________ Jock
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:32 am Post subject: |
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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
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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There are already two silent mp3 files in the package. Use one of them. _________________ Lutz
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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lbendlin wrote: | There are already two silent mp3 files in the package. Use one of them. |
Ahh, but which one sounds nicest? _________________ "Settling in nicely" ;-) |
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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i prefer the 500 ms one over the 2 s one. I like brevity. _________________ Lutz
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JockTamsonsBairn Lifetime Member
Joined: Jan 10, 2004 Posts: 2777 Location: Bonnie Scotland (West Central)
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:33 am Post subject: |
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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"? _________________ Jock
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:10 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Lutz
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peterc10 Frequent Visitor
Joined: Aug 21, 2005 Posts: 1761 Location: Kent, England
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:11 am Post subject: |
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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.
Thanks _________________ Peter
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