TT6 and CheckPOInt

s3dbw · Regular Visitor Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 203

Checkpoint runs fine on TT6, no problems at all

bewildered · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject:

Hmm, not my experience. Can you confirm which version of checkpoint and which version of TTN6 you use please? As per my previous post, checkpoint seems to object to the TTN6 camera overlay files, which seems quite a fundamental issue. Perhaps I've picked up the wrong Checkpoint? Have I done something silly in the Synchronise task?

s3dbw · Regular Visitor Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 203

Currently running checkpoint 6 with TTN 6.01

bewildered · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

Same as me it would appear. Do you have the TTN6 camera overlays installed or did you remove them? They become obsolete of course if you use the Checkpoint ones.

s3dbw · Regular Visitor Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 203

The only camera overlays I use are those from PocketGPS world. I then use Checkpoint to set up the timed warnings along with custom wav files. I dont use the sync capability in Checkpoint any more

bewildered · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject:

Ah, that's interesting. I also use the pocketgps overlays, and I wondered why checkpoint wasn't. So I could drop the TTN6 camera overlays, and all the ones that checkpoint created when I used the synchronise function? Then I need to get checkpoint to use the pocketgps ones instead? Does checkpoint recognise them without any problem?

s3dbw · Regular Visitor Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 203

Checkpoint should recognise them ok. If you look in overlay settings, the pocketgps poi's should be sitting in the "not synchronised" folder

bewildered · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject:

OK, I'm making good progress now thanks! :D I dropped all the overlays I don't want, and found the pocketgps ones under "not Synchronised" as you say. I've set up suitable sound warnings, and muted sounds on TTN6. I still have this problem that if I start Checkpoint, get the menu, choose "Navigator" menu option to start TTN6, the TTN6 flash screen appears followed by "Failed to load". Sad

I then tried starting TTN6 first, going to page 4 and starting Checkpoint from there. This loaded, and when I chose "Navigator" from menu TTN6 re-appeared OK. I then tested a route trough two cameras, and sure enough, the Checkpoint alerts played fine. :D So, nearly there. Just the startup problem. The procedure I tried is too lengthy to be convenient - I might forget to start Checkpoint and miss a camera! Evil or Very Mad

This must be a very simple issue - I'l love to get it resolved. Under TTN3 I just started Checkpoint and it, plus TTN3 loaded fine.

s3dbw · Regular Visitor Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 203

Not sure whats causing the problem, I can either start checkpoint first, hit navigate and it opens TTN6 ok, or I can do it from within TTN6. In both cases the program loads OK. I can only suggest the time honored approach of uninstalling and re-installing to see if it cures the problem.

Personally I generally start TTN6 first then load checkpoint from within the TT6 menu

bewildered · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject:

OK, thanks for your help with this. If anyone else reading this knows the answer I'll buy you a virtual beer! Laughing

I really want to avoid the re-install!

Deep-6 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 24, 2004 Posts: 41

Quick note about the Checkpoint start up - I set one of the hardware buttons on my Ipaq 2210 to start up checkpoint from cold, so the PDA was off, I hit the calendar and it would start Checkpoint - if I tried to start TomTOM 6 at that point I would get the error about overlays - to fix, I turned the PDA on now, then hit the shortcut button for checkpint, then TomTom starts up fine and I get all the CheckPOInt warnings...this is with both v6 TomTom and CheckPoint. Hope this helps.

bewildered · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject:

Well I've made some progress. I found I'd somehow got a copy of TomTom in the Voices directory on SD card. I think I messed up install at some point. Goodness knows why but CheckPoint was running that copy, which failed. Deleted that copy, and now CheckPoint runs TomTom correctly when you select Navigate. :D I have set up voice prompts for PoacketGPS cameras, and it seems to be OK. Sometimes get the system to freeze, but maybe because I was running low on memory? I need to do a proper on-the-road test now.

bewildered · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:26 am Post subject:

Well first road test failed. Sad

No alerts from CheckPoint. Very frustrating. With earlier comments from people about reliability of alerts from Checkpoint & TTN5, I think perhaps I will give up on it and go back to the "Silent voice" option. It's very difficult when there is no way to ask questions about the product to the developers. I know it's free, so I can't expect too much. What a shame. I used it reliably all the time with TTN3. I will have one last try setting just the last alert on all cameras. We shall see.

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