Alerts Not Showing Up On Garmin 660

Hi markhart,

I think setting your alerts to 2.8 miles is a little far. Why don't you set them to 1 mile or less (¼ mile = 1320ft., ½ mile = 2640ft., ¾ mile = 3960ft. and 1 mile = 5280ft.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, for your alerts to function you have to be on the road the poi is on and traveling in that direction.

TourGuide alerts use "radius" alerts. Your 15000ft. (or 2.8 mile alert would work, with the (TourGuide) type of poi's.

Check out Phil Hornby's explanation of alerts here:
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6764

HTH (hope that helps)

Regards,

Tailspin

Nüvi 670
Mac User

Your alerts are set way too far ahead. AT alert time the gps will not see the target from that distance. Even a selected poi too far from the road will miss the alert function.

gusb

I think i read on here that alerts wouldnt pop up in 3-d mode? Is that correct?

Thanks for all the suggestions. A few examples that I have loaded are Panera Bread and Pilot Travel Centers. These show up on the GPS as CUSTOM POI's with the ALERT perimeters. I have loaded Flying J Travel Centers and numerous other files and they don't appear on the CUSTOM POI list with the alert information that I entered in the POI Loader program. I have changed the distance, etc and it still won't show the ALERT info. I am guessing it may have something to do with the file name perhaps? Thanks.

My GPS is in the 3D mode and the poi's with the alerts working go off just fine in 3D.

I've used alerts 2 miles in advance and they worked fine for me. They also work in 3D mode.

Your question had me puzzled at first because I forgot that if I look at the detailed info screen of a custom POI that was loaded with an alert in manual mode, it will display the alert information.

Anyway, I have always loaded my POI files in manual mode from POI Loader. As the Loader steps through each file, some I set with alerts, most I don't.

For example, the highway rest area file (Rest Areas.csv, Rest Area.wav, Rest Area.bmp) I have always loaded with a 10,560ft (2 miles) distance. When I look at the details of any rest area POI, it shows:

Alert Information:
Distance: 10561ft
Speed: none

So as a test, I downloaded your example of the Flying J locations and loaded them (Flying J Travel Plaza.csv, Flying J Travel Plaza.bmp). I didn't bother with an audio alert file.

I loaded the rest area file as I have always done with a 2 mile alert. I loaded the Flying J file using your example of 15000ft. The remaining files (stores & restaurants) I loaded with no alert.

The rest area detail was the same as above. Next, I picked several of the Flying J locations at random, and they all displayed as follows:

Alert Information:
Distance: 15000ft
Speed: none

Is this the information you say is not displayed? Are you sure when running POI Loader, and you step through the files that you are picking the right file(s) to set the proximity alert?

I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what might be going wrong.

When I do it, I get the whole list of Flying J's with their address and telephone number, but no alert info. Like I said, I have Pilot Travel Centers that display the alert info and Panera Bread that displays alert info. I am loading all files with POI Loader manually and entering various distances for alerts. Is there a limit to how many Custom POI's a 660 or 680 will hold? I have quite a few installed. Thanks

I don't think you are hitting the max. Here's an example:

You can read the whole topic here:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/15907

Do you have the latest version of POI Loader - 2.5.2.0? I'm running out of ideas. Have you tried loading just a few files at a time and slowly add more. I know it sounds like a time consuming pain, but it should work.

I created a new folder called POI-2, and loaded the Texas Roadhouse file into it. I added "TourGuide" to the file name for radial alerts. I downloaded the latest version of POI Loader onto my computer, and tried to download the Texas Roadhouse file. At first it did not recognize the file. I then added ".csv" to the end of the file name, and it loaded 289 locations. When I fired up the GPS and went to CUSTOM POI's, Texas Roadhouse was not on the list. Ideas?

HI markhart,

This article may help you, with regard to Tour_Guides.

Making CSV Files Into TourGuides – And Their Many Different Uses by poi-factory member H. Hannah.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/13904

Regards,

Tailspin

Nüvi 670
Mac User

Did you use the scroll button at the bottom of the screen? Depending on how you set up your folders, Texas Roadhouse might appear under a category named after your folder (POI-2).