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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: DTX3 on 15 September 2018, 16:09
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So I got a subscription to PocketGPS and downloaded and installed the speed cameras via the Car-Net website. However there is no option to add the audio files for the notification when approaching a POI. Has anyone been able to get around this and add the audio?
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I managed this when importing them on the VW website, it gave you an option to enable audible warning.
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I've got audio notifications on mine but I loaded my speedcams via SD card. To be honest the bong is crap and annoying so I turn it off anyway.
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I've got audio notifications on mine but I loaded my speedcams via SD card. To be honest the bong is crap and annoying so I turn it off anyway.
You couldn't take a screenshot of how you have added them to the SD card? I've got mp3 files but not sure which folder to add them to. Cheers mate
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I think it's embedded into the file. I get my cam file from someone else so I haven't a clue how it's constructed. As mentioned your really not missing anything by having the bong. It's not worth bothering with really.
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Would have been much better if on the VW website where you used to be able to construct your speed cam packages, if you could have add a .wav file to each camera set that rather than the annoying "bong", could have said something like "Warning - speed camera ahead".
Like McMaddy said, you are not really missing anything, and TBH if you have the SPECS cameras on like I do (the variable speed cameras on motorways for example), it gets really annoying as it keeps muting the audio every time you approach one. Next time I update the cams, I'll go the Car-Net route and be happy that it doesn't have the annoying bongs.
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All I will say, is if you have AppConnect, use Waze and set it to only alert if you are exceeding the speed limit approaching a camera.... then you only get warned about cameras likely to nail you...
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Fred, I do use Waze occasionally and it is good, and I'd use it all the time if it was available in the AID screen rather than just on the head unit.
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You don't really need it on the AID...
Plus... once you have started Android Auto and have it running, you are free to use anything else on the main screen... it will still warn you about hazards by voice from the background. You don't need navigation active for it to warn you!
I leave it running all of the time, sometimes in the background... just having the hazard alert is great.
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I'm just a bit paranoid now since I had to do a speed awareness course recently. So any "bong" or warning I'll take it, as annoying as it may be ;)
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The waypoint alerts on the VW system are pretty much when you are on top of the POI.... if you need to brake (and obviously you don't need to...) its pretty much too late if you are errrm a couple of mph over the posted limit due to an errrm steep hill (obviously)
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........and, anyway, the German site, where you could convert the Pocketgps files to suit our cars, and which had the option to enable the bong, has disappeared. I spent a good while searching for it, with no success. This leaves CarNet the only way to add personal POIs and I can find no way to get bongs. As Fred says, they aren’t that useful, but it annoys me that we have lost that ability!
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I add mine from either SD card or memory stick and have never used the online method.
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I add mine from either SD card or memory stick and have never used the online method.
The files I got from PocketGPS are .csv and .mp3 (for the audio). The POI work fine but not the mp3. You mentioned before you just add the files. Can I ask what files these were? Cheers
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I get my speed cam files from a mate and then just load them up.