Voice Command & Custom POIs

 

Good Afternoon ...
Having fun adding POIs to my 2460LMT. Have a question - Is it possible to add the Custom POIs that load in Extras to be moved to Favorites so that a Voice Command could be given?

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Garmin nuvi 2460LMT (2)

It is possible

dferron wrote:

Good Afternoon ...
Having fun adding POIs to my 2460LMT. Have a question - Is it possible to add the Custom POIs that load in Extras to be moved to Favorites so that a Voice Command could be given?

You know, of course, that you can add favorites manually - but I think you are wanting to have a procedure for doing this.

First, let me point out that your unit has, in the Garmin/GPX folder, a file named "current.gpx". Now this specific file is an output-only file and is described as such in your GarminDevice.xml file.

Every time the unit boots, it will write out of protected memory all of the "favorites/Saved Places" it has stored.

Then, however, the unit will look for a .gpx file ANYWHERE ON YOUR UNIT and will add the contents of that .gpx file to your Favorites/Saved Places IF AND ONLY IF
1) the time stamp on the .gpx file is later than the date on current.gpx before it was last written, or
2) the .gpx file has been seen by the unit previously.

So - if you have a .gpx file with locations that you would like to also have in Favorites/Saved Places, then you would place that .gpx file in the same folder as current.gpx and the contents will be added to Favorites/Saved Places and the next boot.

How would you make a .gpx file? You should now go read
Downloading and Installing EPE {G}
Configuring EPE {G}
Building alert distances in GPX files using EPE {G}

You may want to think about putting too many locations in Favorites/Saved Places because you will see only the nearest 50 even though you can have hundreds. They will be shown to you based on the distance from you "as the crow flies".

Since I do not use voice commands, I am not aware of how robust they are, but you might also want to consider grouping your POIs into Categories. So look at
How do you set up and load custom POIs with or without categories.

Also, ...

In addition to jgermann's advice, also remember that the 2460 has a limit of 1000 total Favorites in addition to the restriction of only showing the closest 50 Favorites that jg mentions (click the Specs tab and scroll down to Waypoints/favorites/locations) in:

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/on-the-road/discontinued/nuv...

Unless you're very frugal in your choice of Custom POIs that now exist in your Extras, converting them to Favorites may well exceed that limit. (My Custom POIs which include all interstate hwy rest areas and essentially all schools in the US total approximately 200,000 locations.)

Voice Command & Custom POIs

Thank you both for your help. Actually, what I was really wanting to do is to find a way to voice command to the custom POIs, but then I just realized that they will show up as we drive along, and if I want a particular place all I have to do is send a voice command to Find ...

Thanks again,
Don

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Garmin nuvi 2460LMT (2)

zoom level

dferron wrote:

but then I just realized that they will show up as we drive along

Just FYI, if you zoom out too far on the map, the icons won't show up as you drive.