A **GOOD** bug in TomTom Home?

dhn · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: A **GOOD** bug in TomTom Home?

Perhaps everybody in the world knew about this except me, so sorry if I'm wasting band width.

If you have NOT upgraded to Navcore 8.010 and your unit is docked and TTHome is running, you can navigate to TT+ Services, Weather, and get the weather for 5 days in the location you set (Home in my case). You are NOT warned that you have to set up a wireless connection first (as you'll be asked to do if you try the above with an undocked unit).

My understanding is the Nav8 firmware prevents the weather getting retrieved while docked. I don't know, just have 7.481 here.

Darren · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

Useful maybe but don't you have better weather forecasts available on the web?
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dhn · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject:

True, sadism rules Wink

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BodgerBaz · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:58 am Post subject:

gardenshed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 466

cant believe you would condone installing software not paid for as tomtom meant it to be, isnt that erm... a form of piracy, exploiting a hack in their database Shocked

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:

gardenshed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 466

one point of view i agree Rolling Eyes

dhn · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject:

I agree as well.......

I am the LAST person in the world to condone the use of illegal software but, as Mike says, the facility is (or was) made available in TT's own FREE downloads.

We are all aware of the frustration we suffer with TT's sloppy coding regarding Home and firmware releases. It's just nice to have the shoe on the other foot, for a change. Wink

gardenshed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 466

dhn, i was hoping you would post to so that i could say i wasn't having a dig at you buddy Wink

dhn · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject:

I didn't take your comment as such, gardenshed. Very Happy

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject:

gardenshed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 466

rtj70 · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 18, 2005 Posts: 144

On the previous firmware you could also access (if paid for) the Traffic data. You could download the data before setting out a lot quicker (and free) compared to GPRS.

I wonder why they stopped this working? My guess is when HD Traffic comes they want you to use their GPRS enabled power cord instead of the data going over the Internet from your PC.

stuart · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:54 am Post subject:

I have always been able to get the weather on my iPaq running TTN5 when its connected up to my computer without TT Home opened up.

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