Calculated time to home way wrong 765T

 

This past weekend I went on an overnight trip about 75 miles south of my home. We headed home the next day and my GPS said it was going to take 3 1/5 hours to make what is usually a 90 minute trip home. My wife asked if there was a freeway shut down or real bad traffic causing a really long way home. I checked and there was only a 3 minute delay showing but I didn't check the exact route at that time. When we progress toward home and came to a junction where we always stayed to the left this time the GPS said stay to the right. OK, at this point I began to think about the time again and thought possibly the current time might be off a couple of hours but after checking it was exactly correct. It was at this point I finally remembered we went to NY and MA two weeks before and I carried my GPS to use in a rental car and set my HOME location to the condo where we were staying. It is like 1450 miles from my home to there and the GPS didn't say which day I would arrive but it was just a couple of hours longer that to my real home.
Its hell getting old!

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Nuvi 2460LMT

It IS hell getting old

When I visited my daughter in Pittsburgh and we went out to eat, I used my Garmin to find my car using the Off-Road feature. When I changed my destination to her house (26 miles away), it said it would take me 9 hours to get there. I forgot to set it back to Fastest Time.

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NUVI40 Kingsport TN

Overnight Travel Lodging

I would NEVER enter the name or address of a motel stay into my Nuvi as "Home," even temporarily. Ordinarily, when we take an extended road trip, I enter the addresses of all planned overnight stays into the Nuvi: I use those as the basis for Start and End points for each day of travel, in conjunction with my use of Trip Planner.

Whenever staying overnight in a hotel, motel, resort, friend’s home, etc., I suggest that you take the time to enter that location into Saved Places, or be sure it is in Recently Found. You may find it exceptionally useful to find that location again, after driving elsewhere in that unfamiliar city for dinner, gas, visiting a park, etc. It’s amazing how easy it convenient it can be to take X freeways or roundabout streets to wherever you desire in that city…and then use your Nuvi to get back to base. It becomes the equivalent of “Go Home.”

Do it your way...

nuvifan wrote:

I would NEVER enter the name or address of a motel stay into my Nuvi as "Home," even temporarily. Ordinarily, when we take an extended road trip, I enter the addresses of all planned overnight stays into the Nuvi: I use those as the basis for Start and End points for each day of travel, in conjunction with my use of Trip Planner.

Whenever staying overnight in a hotel, motel, resort, friend’s home, etc., I suggest that you take the time to enter that location into Saved Places, or be sure it is in Recently Found. You may find it exceptionally useful to find that location again, after driving elsewhere in that unfamiliar city for dinner, gas, visiting a park, etc. It’s amazing how easy it convenient it can be to take X freeways or roundabout streets to wherever you desire in that city…and then use your Nuvi to get back to base. It becomes the equivalent of “Go Home.”

You do it your way and I'll do it my way. When staying 2 weeks in the same location and taking several short trips and returning each day I find it much easier to set my home location. I had loaded about 50 sightseeing locations into my GPS and searching thru that many favorites looking for my base location each time was way too much trouble. Like I said, you do it however you like and so will I. It sounds like you haven't actually done what I did.

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Nuvi 2460LMT

Both ways OK.

No down side to setting a new HOME while on vacation. It saves keystrokes and is easily cleared.
When at my house, I do not use HOME. I do have a custom poi file called LOCAL. I have BOB located at my last turnoff.

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1490LMT 1450LMT 295w

I never change "home"...

I never change home. But when I'm on the road, I sure rely on "Recent Selections". Every time I enter a new destination near where I'm staying, I find my way back using "Recent Selections". Therefore, my temporary "home" is always near the top of the "recent" list.

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Garmin Drivesmart 61, Nuvi 52, Nuvi 1390

Another Technique

When you get to a location at which you will be staying for a while, do a
>Tools > Where Am I? > Save Location

Enter something descriptive for the name and press "Done" such that your new home base is saved to your Favorites. Go back to the main menu

Do a
Where To? > Favorites > All Favorites
and you should find the name you just entered on the first page of the list. Select it

Now you will see a "go" screen but you will press the "Edit" button at the bottom of the screen.

On the next screen, press the [down arrow] to get the choice to "Change Categories"

The new screen will list all the current categories and be offered a choice to create a new category. Take that choice.

For the name of the new category use some special character like the "@" sign as the first letter of the category name and, say, something like "temp home base". Press "done". This will make the new category sort to the top of the Favorite categories.

Now back out to the main menu and do a
Where To? > Favorites > @temp home base
and you will find the desired location.

I know this technique requires one extra press on the GPS, but it also give you the ability to put a few more entries into the new "@temp home base" category of Favotites. Say, you find a restaurant to which you would like to return for another meal. Since it is likely in "Recently Found", just put it in Favorites and edit it to be in the new "@temp home base" category.

Bob?

spokybob wrote:

When at my house, I do not use HOME. I do have a custom poi file called LOCAL. I have BOB located at my last turnoff.

What? I'm confused.

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NUVI40 Kingsport TN

I have Church

for my home. I don't think that if it stolen anyone will want to go to Church.

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3790LMT; 2595LMT; 3590LMT, 60LMTHD