can't get alerts to go off!!!
Wed, 01/10/2007 - 10:37pm
17 years
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I have proximity alerts set for 23 mph within .25 mile of a school. I haven't once been alerted of the POI. I have the custom Pois checked under Proximity Points and audio set to Continuous - all alerts. Under a POI itself it says
Proximity Alarm
Distance: 1319ft
Speed: 23mph
Is there something else I'm missing?
thanks
racqy
The only clues I can give
The only clues I can give you are:
You have to be driving faster than your speed alert and the file name of the POIs must have speed in the name.
nuvi350 upgraded to V4.3 and small SD card for testing. etrex Legend and gps60 csx & GPSmap60CSx
troubleshooting ideas
Here are a few ideas that might be helpful to figure out what's causing the problem.
If you have a lot of custom POI locations loaded, you might try just a small file to see if that makes any difference. I'd start with just one or two locations.
You might also try just a distance alert (without setting a maximum speed).
Once you find a simple combination that's working, you can add back features and/or scale up to a larger file again to see where things stop working.
JM
POIs
When you load them and go to custom how can you do both set a speed alert and a distance alert???
Mark
redlight camera alert works, but not school alert.
1. The redlight camera alert did go off last night while I was driving around, but then I went past a couple schools and still nothing. I was going over the set alert speed.
3. Mark, I have 23 in the file name so the POILoader automatically sets the alert distance and the speed.
4. I'll try reducing the file size with just a few locations and see if that changes anything.
5. What is WAAP/EROS?
racqy
nuvi 350
racqy nuvi 350
speed and distance?
Has anyone else had success with both speed and distance alerts set at the same time?
JM
i had this problem some time
i had this problem some time back. i found that the speed and red light poi work better in the internal memeory of my c530. they seem to be slower in the sd card. so i load waypoints on 2 different sd cards this allows me to organize my poi for local and nation wide use amd and speed and red light in the unit. when i was testing the problem, i was installing a small number of test speed and red light poi.
learned a few things....
The alerts do come on now!!!! I changed the filename from file_name# to filename_#. Hopefully, the fact that I didn't have the alert speed separated by the underscore kept it from going off or I just got lucky! Could also be that I drastically reduced the size of the file on my internal memory.
I also noticed that my custom POI's show up on my map while I drive. woohoo. Don't ask me how it happened, but they were there. So, I know it is possible.
racqy
nuvi 350
racqy nuvi 350
Interesting.
Interesting.
-Mask667**Nuvi 350**