newbie question

Ten feet is waaaaaaaay too short of an alert. The accuracy of consumer grade GPS units is around 5 - 10 meters (or so) at best.

You will want to use alert distances that are beyond that. The proximity alerts probably will be most useful if you use a distance of more than 1000 feet depending upon your use and the location itself.

If you are driving, you will cover 1000 feet in a matter of seconds.

That sounds awfully tight to me. It's within the GPSr accuracy (or tolerance) under most condition, so I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't recognize you as within 10 ft of your home.

I have my "home alert" set at 99 ft (easier to type than 100), and it works just fine.

I can usually tell when I'm 1000 feet from my home. I can hear the wife yelling at the kids
Do you want to use my alert??
LOL

If Jill announced the default alert that goes with the HOME in favorites, it sounds like you set a destination of HOME under Where To instead of routing yourself to the Custom Poi, or better still, just driving to home with no destination set.

If I am correct, you had 2 alerts vying for time to announce -- and your destination alert may have just won out.

I used to be able to hear mine yelling at me at 1000 feet.

I've set "home" as destination, and I usually get destination alert followed by my own custom home alert.

Do you also have your proximity alert set to 10 ft? Could you have the order that you hear the announcements reversed? I normally don't get a destination alert until 200 ft or less before the destination. Do you have your custom POI set to alert at a distance shorter than that? If you had your custom alert set at 1000 ft, I could understand a custom and then default/std HOME alert.

Regardless, I just think that if you are trying to test a proximity alert, it is not a good idea to have two different alerts set to go off at the same time.

99 feet using the manual mode.

I think it speaks in the order of alert having been triggered, depending on the location and distance.

As others have stated your alert is to close. But on top of that the 750 gives inconsistent audio, visual and distance alerts which seems to depend upon what else it's doing at the time.

That is approaching an alert with other POI's and approaching from different directions can give different results. It also appears that speed is a factor.

thank you all for your suggestions, I am gonna set my alert to 100ft away and see if that does it or not and let you all know.

Walleye1, if that doesn't I will contact you for your alert

thanks again all!

Ten Feet?????? My driveway is longer than 10 Feet.

100ft worked like a charm, thank you all!

Does the custom alert announce before or after the destination announcement?

Yes. As I said for the 750 the results are inconsistent. And, yes I've gotten both answers.