Garmin 265WT GPS Audio alert? (over speed limit)

 

Is there some kind of Mod available that will make this Garmin 265WT to give you sound beep alert (As most of Tomtom unit does) when you drive over the specified speed limit?

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To my knowledge that option is not available on the 265WT.

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I don't believe ANY of the nuvi models have an audible speed limit alert.

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GadgetGuy2000 is correct. No nuvi provides an audible speed alert. Only recently have some models been updated or have included a visual speed alert where your displayed speed numerals will turn red when you exceed the current known speed limit (map embedded speed limit data).

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Speed alerts

If you embed @speed data in the speed camera file like POI Factory has already done for you, it will continue to alert that you are approaching a speed camera if you are exceeding the embedded speed figure.

Perhaps you could exploit this to do what you want somehow but I think you'd have to put dummy camera entries all over the place in order to do it.

For instance, if it's possible to combine a speed and proximity alert, making the proximity alert say, 100 miles, might do the trick?

PS - no, I guess that won't work because you would be limited to the one speed, not the different speed limits for different sections of highway within the alert proximity of your entry.

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Why on earth...

topgear wrote:

Is there some kind of Mod available that will make this Garmin 265WT to give you sound beep alert (As most of Tomtom unit does) when you drive over the specified speed limit?

would you ever want that? That small addition would drive (pardon the pun) me nuts. In California, if you go the speed limit, you will be left in the dust. I had a Chevrolet that had a beep when you exceeded the speed limit...what a pain in the backside! For me, that is one "bell and whistle" we don't need, but I do however respect the fact that you might find it necessary...

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user-configurable is the key

jmkthird wrote:

That small addition would drive (pardon the pun) me nuts.

The key is to make the feature user-configurable (on/off toggle). However that would seem to be something that Garmin would choose to force upon users rather that make user-configurable. I do know that the current visual over-speed limit display is NOT user-configurable & is always on...thank goodness it does not have an audible alert.

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I agree...

DorkusNimrod wrote:
jmkthird wrote:

That small addition would drive (pardon the pun) me nuts.

The key is to make the feature user-configurable (on/off toggle). However that would seem to be something that Garmin would choose to force upon users rather that make user-configurable. I do know that the current visual over-speed limit display is NOT user-configurable & is always on...thank goodness it does not have an audible alert.

thank goodness...

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A decent design

I also have thought it would be good to have an audible alert. Aside from ability to turn it on/off per personal preferences, a good design would have it only alert you if the speed limit has changed downwards -- and thus you are now speeding (perhaps not having noticed the speed limit sign). A special case of this is having left a parking lot or such where there was no speed limit, and you accelerate too much for the road you are now on. Couple this with a limit on how frequently it would trigger, and it could be helpful and non-iritating....