john banks

As title, which of them will do this?

fergie_uk

John , ive written an addin to Tom Tom (do you have it?) that enables you to set the speed of a road with a flic of a button then when your GPS speed exceeds it you get a warning it does require Tom Tom to work.

john banks

Don't have it, but could get it. I just rang a device seller and they said nothing is available directly to do what I want.

Nick100

Origin B2 has one user set limit, above which it gives you an over speed warning.
But it doesn't change with road, so you could only set it to one limit.

Jamo

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ive got a new neo for sale that does exactly this, plus the bonus of being a speed camera detector too

scoobydooooo

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
ooppppss , that would be mine, but i actually take notice of my SPEEDO !!!

john banks

Does the neo actually automatically do it as per the present speed limit all the time with no user intervention?

My wife doesn't watch her speedo and has just got 6 points in one week. Hence the problem. Her new car will have cruise control, which if she actually uses it will help.

tuscan57

RAC trackstar are doing the safe speed option which warns of camera's but that does mean a tracker is needed.....

Rob D

Tom Tom Go and Road Angel II also have that option.

hawkthescoobslayer

luckily the Porker I have has an option in it to set the limit to any speed you want and it GOES NUTS at you when you drop below it

sorry I meant above it

Vegescoob

Don't want to be boring but imho send her on IAM course. Reasonable money to teach awareness and possibly save licence.

Apple

Have you seen the price of the yearly subs for the system?

It'd be more viable getting a gps camera detector after 18/24 months...

Or for free - watch the speedo and keep around / below the limit

Beastie

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John
any good? http://www.gpsw.co.uk/details/prod1805.html

john banks

I looked through the Road Angel II manual and I got the impression you could just set one speed limit, not that it will warn if you are ever over any speed limit? Similar for Neo?

Can anyone confirm if Tom Tom Go can definitely do this, waste of money if not and I can't find details on the site....

john banks

Thanks Greg that looks just the job!

Apple

TT Go is only a single speed limit where it goes into a blue screen with info of next turn on it only rather than full map display, e.g. set it at 75mph for motorway and it'll go blue at that speed and bak to map at maybe 72mph as you slow down.

It's no use for anything less than motorway speeds IMO as you lose the map when it activates... Also, it doesn't bleep AFAIR

MattW

Smartnav does it. Optional Tracker retrieve service too.

Miniman

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I've just gone through this process myself.

First I got hold of a Smartphone that runs a Windows OS. It's the Orange SPV C500. There are other Smartphones, but the beauty is they all run Windows, so there is loads of software being developed for them, including Camera detector apps.

Check here for details of the phone on Orange (free on pay monthly)
http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/h...pv_c500/detail

Check out http://www.coolsmartphone.com/ for General Smartphone details.


Then got hold of a small GPS unit, somewhere like PocketGPS has a lot of different units.

http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/

I purchased the Fortuna Clip On for £110 which connects to the phone via Bluetooth



Then you can either use TomTom Mobile, which is really navigator software, it has the ability to have spoken points of interest (POI's). PocketGPS have also put together a complete database for all speed camera's and you can just use that as POI's within TomTom Mobile. They speak a warning.

http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/uksafetycameras.php


However for a pure safety camera detector, the team at Modaco (a Smartphone web site), is developing a small app called CamerAware.

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showforum=142

This is a dedicated app. It takes the PocketGPS database and references that to the GPS position through the Fortuna Clip On. It's still beta software, but works great and the dev's are putting more features in to every day.

If I get some pics togther I'll post them.

Unsure about developments for the future, but I'd say that as a Windows OS it's likely to get more and more apps, some of which are bound to be free. There are different phones and other apps for PDA's (TomTom Go on a PocketPC for example) that will do the same thing. I notice that the PocketGPS database of camera some have a speed rating, so there is the possibility in future of having the phone/PDA speak a warning plus the speed limit.

john banks

Thanks, I note that the Cyclops site says that the new Bill will ban laser or radar detectors. Really all that is needed is an automatic audible over-speed alarm that is always on and needs no user intervention, so I think Cyclops is it.

Andy.F

What about a brick under the throttle

john banks

Even worse her new Octavia vRS arrives next week, lots of low down torque It will probably get a Cyclops fitted pretty quickly I think.

cw42

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John, I'm using a dell axim x5, with tom tom 3, checkpoint and the pocketgps camera database. On the settings menu in checkpoint, theres the option of a middle warning. I hadn't used this before, but ticked it recently to see what it did.
When you approach a fixed scamera site, you get the first warning:
"speed camera in 30 seconds"
then you get the middle warning if you are going over the limit for that particular scamera:
"limit is 30"
then you get the final warning
"speed camera in 10 seconds"
Once past the revenue earner, it all goes quite again.
I also use an excellent sound file done by fergie-uk, when approaching shell stations:
"you are approaching a shell station, does your impreza need optimax"
chris.

Rob D

John, your right the RA II can only be set at a single speed, also has someone has stated the Tom Tom Go just changes colour but again it's a single set speed.

Baggers

Cheaper option is to borrow my other half, she regularly *BEEPS* at me when I exceed 80.

john banks

Except my wife got done at 80 in a 70!!! Although the speedo would have been showing higher.

I think a PDA and all the wiring would scare here. Cyclops seems favourite? Anyone running one?

Wurzel

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Navman have this option as standard on their V3 software for all their GPS devices.

And it is both an audible and visual warning.

fergie_uk

as i say for you tom tom users ive developed an addin that with a single finder selction you can set the road speed then if you go over it it will warn you your going faster than the current speed limit

David_Wallis

I tell you what john, give her my mondeo.. if she can get 6 points in that then she is doing well..

every drive is a challenge to get to the speed limit, let alone exceed it.. ' I remember back in the day when the car was quick enough to speed'

billythekid

Buy a Porsche Its part of the navi system.

john banks

David, she did it in a 1.8 Focus, think Mondeo would be similar?

New phone is out as she has a company mobile without Bluetooth. PDAs are too complex for her. She doesn't want to fix a tracker to a company car. Reading the Cyclops info I get the impression it only has the speed limit stored at known camera zones - the problems are Talivans. Really don't need or want anything except something that always and automatically compares your speed with the speed limit.

Need to look at the Navman 3 but still stuck? Will ring up and quizz retailer about the Cyclops, so if it doesn't do what they say it can be returned.