New way to do custom POI warnings in TomTom 5 & 6

smudge49 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 2

I am sure the answer to my query is somewhere in this thread but I cannot find it.

I have installed the ogg files and they worked perfectly 1st time giving voice warning to approaching speed camera. BUT the original Tom Tom warning still sounds as well.

How do I get TT5 on my IPAQ to give give me just the verbal warning?

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject:

Privateer · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:

Hi smudge49,

Welcome

to the forum! Thumbs Up

smudge49 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 2

Thanks both for your help, there was duplicate stuff, now deleted and it works great, thanks again for speedy reponse

ckleanth · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2006 Posts: 1

Because you can use the POI's warning (when you approach a speed camera, tesco's whatever) even if you don't have a route in your route planer software
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

Erm... Hi ckleanth, welcome to the forum. Bit confufed though, was that a question? or a comment about another post? It didn't seem to 'follow on' from anything said in this thread Sad

pete1312 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 08, 2006 Posts: 3

I have carefully read through all 26 pages of this thread and can only assume that this method still does not work for TT Mobile 5. Can anyone please confirm or deny this? Thanks

mikealder · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:52 am Post subject:

Pete, Welcome to the forum, you cannot use the ogg file method on TT Mobile 5 it just won't work. You can still have spoken alerts though by using the older method of swapping out the data.chk file for a modified one, you can read the instructions Here make sure you get the correct version number to match your software - Mike

pete1312 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 08, 2006 Posts: 3

Thanks for the answer Mike, and for the welcome. I previously used the data.chk method but have just got a replacement phone as my original was stolen, and was hoping this new method would be compatible. I'm now back up and running using the old method. Its a pity, as the new ogg voices sound great.

dytham · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 01, 2007 Posts: 2

Deleted (answered already).

Sorry - being lazy.

feival · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 25, 2007 Posts: 10

mikealder · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 7:27 am Post subject:

I am not too sure that my statement about sample rate is applicable when using version 6 software. It certainly is applicable for the Mobile 5 version of the software.

Glad to hear you got it all working and are happy with the results -
Welcome

to the forum by the way - Mike

feival · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 25, 2007 Posts: 10

Thanks for the pleasant welcome. I do have one more question.... I like good notice before a camera so I have set my alerts for 15 seconds. However, I would also like a second alert of just a short ping a couple of seconds before the actual camera. Is there a way of setting up two alert for one POI or should I instead import the full GPS camera database and the single list and associate the single list with the ping alarm. Will that mean each camera is displayed twice on my tomtom - not the end of the world but a minor irritation.

mikealder · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:

You can install either the consolidated by type or single file download, set a different warning sound for each file at a lesser value for the distance.

The downside to this is that it can mess up the icons displayed on screen, small price to pay but there is another way to do this:

You already have the speed zoned database, each POI comprises of a .bmp and .ov2 file simply rename each file on the PC before copying across to the device so:

pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.bmp
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.ov2

would become:

pocketgps_uk_gatso_30_a.bmp
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30_a.ov2

You will need to do this to each file, so its a little more than a 5 min task.

This way will preserve the icons when displayed on the screen but it does consume quite a number of your available custom POI allocations (don't go over 100 ov2 files in a single map folder)

For distances relative to time in seconds have a look at the conversion chart towards the end of This Guide - Mike

feival · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 25, 2007 Posts: 10

Thanks Mike. That makes sense and I thought I saw that somewhere in the 26 pages on this thread but couldn't find it - it rings a bell so thanks for making the effort to post it twice Smile

I am sure I recall someone mentioning file renaming software on this thread and it must be linked to this particular task!

Presumably with this method the pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.bmp and
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30_a.bmp are both displayed but one sat directly on top of the other hence not having a visible effect? Or is it that you can select to alert both POIs but only display one?

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