No Visual Alert on Nuvi 260?

 

I had my first opportunity to drive past a Red Light camera this morning. My Nuvi 260 alerted me via audio, but I did not get a red screen and text telling me what the alert was for. I just got this unit a few days ago and the Red Light POI is not the one available here, but is just the four cameras we have here in Tucson.

Is there a specific setting I need to use or a field in the POI that I may be missing to get the visual alert?

This may or may not matter, but I was also making a turn at that intersection, so my Nuvi told me about the upcoming turn and then I got the alert sound for the intersection. Might this have been the reason why I got no visual alert?

Thanks

Richard

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Drivesmart 66, Nuvi 2595LMT (Died), Nuvi 1490T (Died), Nuvi 260 (Died), GPSMAP 195

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rocknicehunter wrote:

Might this have been the reason why I got no visual alert?

Richard,
Why don't you run a simulated route through the light and see if it then alerts properly?

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Nuvi 660 -- and not upgrading it or maps until Garmin fixes long-standing bugs/problems, and get maps to where they are much more current, AND corrected on a more timely basis when advised of mistakes.

Red Light

Did you load the file with POI-Loader, and do it manually, and set the distance?, does the filename include Redlight?

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ralphy1 wrote:

Did you load the file with POI-Loader, and do it manually, and set the distance?, does the filename include Redlight?

He got the audio alert, so he must have.

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Nuvi 660 -- and not upgrading it or maps until Garmin fixes long-standing bugs/problems, and get maps to where they are much more current, AND corrected on a more timely basis when advised of mistakes.

Ahhh

I did load the pois via Poiloader. I just ran a simulated trip straight through the intersection, and had the text bar at the top turn red and tell me what alert was, as I expected. I then ran another simulation through the intersection, but turning left as I did during my actual trip and it alerted via audio, but the text bar remained green telling me to make the left turn at the intersection.

Interesting thing to know. Obviously one needs to include a specific audio alert for things like Red Light Cameras in case the alert location may also be part of your route!

Richard

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Drivesmart 66, Nuvi 2595LMT (Died), Nuvi 1490T (Died), Nuvi 260 (Died), GPSMAP 195

Ahhh

I believe that behavior is normal. I have a 350 and the same thing happens to me if I'm making a turn routed by the Nuvi at an intersection with a red light.