Speed camera database - warning via SD card and SatNav POI

[Yex]

I’ve been reading about a speed camera database facility you can subscribe to that allows you to download the locations onto an SD card, load the card into the slot in the dashboard, link the locations to the POI in the Sat Nav and receive audible warnings when approaching a fixed camera location or a mobile camera hotspot.

Has anyone here got this already and if so how easy is it to use with regard to initial set up?

For the €9.95 annual subscription and ability to update camera locations as often as you want it looks a good investment.

 

[Gollom]

Careful if in France - I believe these are illegal?

 

[Deletedmember130310]

You wont get an audible "ping" - at least you can't on NTG 4.5...

 

[Steve84N]

I use Pocket GPS and it works fine, including an audible warning when you're near. Mine is a 2013 so if yours is at least that year it should work too.

It's not clever so it will still ping if it's in the other direction or an adjacent road but it serves its purpose. £20 a year buys you the subscription and includes Europe as well as the UK. It's not legal in France but it's also hard to spot in the car so you're unlikely to get caught.

Very easy to setup, just download the files onto an SD card, then turn on the audible and visual warnings in the car.

 

[EssexBoyRacer]

I’ve got it setup in my w205 pre facelift. Works fine and you get the ping. But because of the lack of intelligence with direction, adjacent roads, speed etc I gave up on it as too many “false” alerts.

I tried a few iOS apps that intervene over HFP protocol on Bluetooth (cyclops app was very good for this) but after a bug with a recent app updates I ended up going with a dedicated hardware radar detector.

I still have the visual alert on sat nav screen from the SD card though.


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[rf065]

I’ve been reading about a speed camera database facility you can subscribe to that allows you to download the locations onto an SD card, load the card into the slot in the dashboard, link the locations to the POI in the Sat Nav and receive audible warnings when approaching a fixed camera location or a mobile camera hotspot.

Has anyone here got this already and if so how easy is it to use with regard to initial set up?

For the €9.95 annual subscription and ability to update camera locations as often as you want it looks a good investment.

If you use the pocketgps one, download the app on to your phone and use that instead, much less hassle. It's called Camera Alert. Modern TomToms and sat navs have become less friendly to 3rd party add ons over the last 10 years. The manufacturers would rather sell you their own substandard versions or stop you using them altogether.

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

Free version would be to have Waze running on your phone in the background

Another cheap option for £30 you can buy an SD card (free updates) from a member on the Facebook group, with audible pings and visual POI’s on the screen

 

[ash59fifty-uk]

Member is ‘Mike Adams’ or CDCVAG

 

[markjay]

I bought the POI database and load it from the SD-Card (NTG4.5), it does work but like others said it is not as good a 'proper' solution.

The main issue is that it simply notifies you of POIs in a given radius around you and not just on the route, which is great if you are looking for a petrol station but pretty useless when it comes to speed cameras... I find that trying to see where the camera is - i.e. if it's actually on the route - is a distraction, and so I gave up on it altogether.