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Tricky2005 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jun 07, 2005 Posts: 20 Location: North East, UK
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject: Checkpoint or POI-Warner for TT5.1 |
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The title says it all, any opinions, comments etc would be appreciated. |
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DriveBy Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 10, 2005 Posts: 35 Location: South Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Why not use both?
Then when you forget to start Checkpoint (as I do) you still get speed camera warnings.
It then reduces the chances of the overlay missing a camera, neither one picks them all up individually, but collectively they do miss fewer.
Just set the audio warnings so that they don't both "talk" at the same time. |
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Pocketgps Lifetime Member
Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 2145 Location: Midlands, UK
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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I use CheckPOInt with TT5 and find it works OK, DriveBy says that they miss some on occasions, I find that this is usually due to the way you have the Detection Angle set, if to narrow then when a camera is around a bend it sometimes misses it, set to wide and you pick up others on near roads !
POI-Warner worked ok with NAVIGON 4.2 but misses a lot with NAVIGON 5.1, but have not used it with TT5. |
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DriveBy Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 10, 2005 Posts: 35 Location: South Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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I do have my Checkpoint set on a fairly wide angle.
To be fair - it does not miss lloads of camera's - but then it only needs to miss one.........to cause a problem.
I prefer the belt and braces approach to be sure.
Of course, the real answer is not to ever exceed a speed limit |
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spook51 Lifetime Member
Joined: Mar 26, 2004 Posts: 548 Location: East Midlands
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:56 am Post subject: |
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Has anyone found a way to cure the Checkpoint flickering display? I find it so irritating that I don't use Checkpoint. |
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DriveBy Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 10, 2005 Posts: 35 Location: South Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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The only answer seems to be to turn off the visuals in checkpoint and just rely on the audio warnings.
The advantage of using those is that they are time adjustable, so can be set to warn before the TTN or pocketgps camera settings come into effect as an extra warning.
I have checkpoint on audio only and pocketgps on both audio and visual on my TTN5.1 and it seems to work OK.
TTN5.1 does seem to have an annoying habit of "forgetting" the audio warnings though.......... |
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spook51 Lifetime Member
Joined: Mar 26, 2004 Posts: 548 Location: East Midlands
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:56 am Post subject: |
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I don't think that a time adjustable warning is such an advantage - if you slow down after the time warning it isn't accurate whereas a distance warning is.
I can't say I've noticed TT5.1 forgetting to 'blast off' but I'll check when I'm out and about. |
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Hoppy Regular Visitor
Joined: Jun 16, 2004 Posts: 241 Location: Lincoln
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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spook51 wrote: | I don't think that a time adjustable warning is such an advantage - if you slow down after the time warning it isn't accurate whereas a distance warning is. |
I disagree if I'm doing 60mph and the warning given is 30 secs to speed camera, then I slow down because of traffic or whatever and I'm only doing 40mph then checkpoint generaly warns me again 30 secs to go which is correct I've always found this accurate if the speed camera is in the correct place, which also aplies to the distance warning. |
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spook51 Lifetime Member
Joined: Mar 26, 2004 Posts: 548 Location: East Midlands
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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Each to his/her own I guess. I prefer anything spoken to be a navigation instruction so I've set up one warning (an alarm sound) a preset distance before each camera. When that sounds I'm sufficiently alerted
To be perfectly honest, having not used Checkpoint because of the flickering, I now find I didn't need it anyway. |
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