nuvi 265 WT help please

First off, welcome to the site.

There are several FAQs and tutorials here on the site for loading files, TourGuide or others. Have you looked at those?

Were your POI alerting before? How did you load them using POI Loader? Did you set an alert distance using Manual Mode or let it default to the 400 meter distance?

Your 265 uses wav files, this requires SOX.exe be located in the same folder/directory where the POILoader.exe file is on your computer. Do you have SOX and is it the correct version? You also need to have alerts enabled within your Nuvi settings. Have you done this?

Here's a couple of links to get you started.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25730
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/13958

.wav files with sox.exe installed in POI Loader folder.

Uploaded here for your convenience if you need it.

http://www.filesonic.com/file/4257572674/sox.exe

What version of sox will that download? Note that POI Loader requires an older sox.exe. I strongly suggest getting the file (and a handy instruction page) from here at The Factory:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25730

You might want to change your nick to "SOX". I'm not sure how many 100's of times you have told people in here including Me, when poi loader doesn't work it's because the sox file is missing. You are definitely the SOX man.

Thank you

But then he'd always be getting lost...in the laundry room.

Sox Car then - assuming I did get out of the laundry room?

That's what we want. If he can't find his way out it's better for all of us. He might get really lost and then wouldn't find his way back here. Lets just keep him in the Laundry Room.

PS: Can we get JM to arbitrarily change his nick to Sox Car?

Reply to CraigW: For sure it's a working version from my computer running XP with latest version of POI Loader. Because I uploaded directly from my Garmin POI Loader folder. I don't really know the version number.

Right-click on SOX.EXE and select Properties. In one of the tabs you should find the version number.

When I do this (on my Win XP machine), I did not get any info.

I didn't check it myself until you asked. SOX.EXE doesn't have version information embedded in the file, which means you have to rely on the file creation date (1/29/08) to make sure you get the right one. However, if a file does have the information, e.g. DIVX PLUS PLAYER.EXE, right-clicking on the file, selecting properties, then selecting the details tab should give you the information you need.

Thanks for the welcome, I am a senior member of a poker forum and always welcome new members so I do appreciate the welcome here.
I have owned my nuvi for almost 3 years now and only last week started looking into what else I can do with it because I didn't want to pay for map updates. I used OSM and started reading about custom POIs and the things we can do with them.
My POIS...
I downloaded a csv off this site for Tim Hortons (a coffee chain in Canada because I am addicted to coffee). I used POI Loader and set it to Manual and set my proximity accordingly. The Redlight alerts work properly (no wav file attached), the TourGuide did not. However, sox.exe was not used (or copied to the POI Loader directory. As soon as I get home I will try with sox.exe
As a newbie to tinkering with my nuvi, I am all ears to the rest of you for favorite ideas.
Thanks guys (and thabks mr. sox)

Welcome. In order to use TourGuide you must have a sound file. We determined that on another post. Your nuvi uses wav files and not mp3.

Your file setup should be like this:

Tim Hortons TourGuide.csv
Tim Hortons TourGuide.wav
Tim Hortons TourGuide.bmp

TourGuide can be anywhere in the name EXCEPT it must be spelled exactly the way I have show. You can leave the icon (bmp) out if you wish.

The sox.exe worked. I now hear a cup of hot coffee pouring when I approach a Tims. Thank you gentlemen!

That was a quick fix.

As you probably know, down in the States there's a bit of a connection between donuts and US Law Enforcement folks. One morning while visiting Whitehorse YT, I stopped in a Tim Horton's for a donut and coffee--and found myself in line behind about five RCMP constables. So I guess it's a North American tradition if we can confirm that Mexican police do the same.

Well done!!

Edit: In reference to sox.exe version questions above.

Create a txt file called sox_ver.bat. Edit the file and add the following 2 lines.

sox --version
pause

save the file to the same directory/folder as your POILoader.exe and sox.exe files. Then click/run the sox_ver.bat file and it will give you the version number.

It should be v14.0.1.

Great tip, my version did show 14.0.1 in a Dos screen.

Does this work on other .exe files that don't display the version?
Of course substituting the programs name for "sox".

Would look like this
programX --version
pause

Save as: "programx_version.bat"

This only works for SOX.EXE because the --version switch after the command is programmed into the SOX program itself. Other programs may have similiar command line switches but you don't know until you experiment with them.

In the old days it was kind of custom to type a command followed by /? switch to see if it had any built in command line switch help.

EDIT?: run the bat file above without the --version , it will sow you all of its help for its command line switches.

That is a good tip.

Interesting information. Having not used DOS in so long it's still a tool that can be used with current technology.

The computer illiterate would have fun with DOS.

"Format C: /y. Ok now where is Windows?"

Don't get me wrong. DOS is an extremely powerful tool and even in this age of graphical user interfaces is still tremendously useful. I still use it myself. But there are people on this site and that visit this site that barely know how to turn on their computer. This advice, as good as it is, may spur them on to learn more about their computers, but could just as easily cause these people to totally wipe their hard drives.

On a serious note, I'm ashamed at myself for not thinking of using DOS. Good advice bear.

I really like the coffee cup tray that slides out when you push a button...

Open up "[My ]Computer", right click on the CD/DVD and select "eject".

He needed about 300 file's extensions renamed. He was sitting there with his mouse right clicking and changing them one by one for about 30 minutes. I opened a DOS windows and did it with one command in 10 seconds. Command line rocks!

Hehe.

ren *.dbf *.db

The true power of DOS is in its batch files, though the single commands are pretty powerful in and of themselves.

hehehe, good old command line ... never changes