A scheduled turn with a red light camera on the route

 

I have a nuvi 255W. When I am on a trip and it has a scheduled turn at the intersection that also happens to have a red light camera, I get the "Turn right at..." messages, but I don't get the red light camera "Bong! Bong!" alarm. I ran this path three times with the same results.

The alarm sounds fine when my trip is straight through the intersection when no message is spoken.

Today, to test this theory, I turned right at the intersection with my GPS unit "on", but I did not have a trip scheduled. "Bong! Bong!". It went off right where the turn message had occurred in my previous trips through that intersection.

Could this be a Garmin bug that the "Bong! Bong!" alarm is overridden by the turn message when they both occur at the same time? If so, it seems that to correct this, they would need some additional programming to either hold back the alarm message until the turn message has completed. They couldn't have the alarm sound intermingled, because some users might have a voice message in place of the "Bong! Bong!".

Anybody else observe this?

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Gotta travel on ... with my nuvi 2450LM.

I'm sure navigation commands

I'm sure navigation commands will win everytime over an alert.

You may want to increase your alert distance to be notified earlier.

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Hawk - Nuvi 1450

Thank you

Good idea. Thank you. With your solution, I can only foresee a problem when there are several turns in sequence prior to a red light camera, but that seems awful doubtful.

Would have any suggestion as to what distance I might want to use?

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Gotta travel on ... with my nuvi 2450LM.

I would try 1/2 mile. I

I would try 1/2 mile. I would not want it to alert me too far in advance of the intersection.

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Hawk - Nuvi 1450

As JT suggested

I would increase the alert distance, but a 1/2 mile (2640 feet) means you would also get alerts for cameras that are not along your route. I have mine set for 650 feet and have had both the TTS direction and WAV alert play at the same time.

Rather than rely on the Bongs, load one of the alert messages.

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