Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)
 

a followup post to the one above...

I got two more test runs. One worked without any issue. For the other one, voice did not work. the ovivoiceserver appeared to have died mid-stream(ie. it was showing 'server running', but it failed on all the test commands. Re-started the voice server; test commands worked again, but still no voice for the turns within the OVI map. The map worked ok this time, that is it kept the direction of travel upon re-routing; unlike the last time I reported. YMMV.

Cheers,

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)
 

Hi. The two extra square buttons are supposed to turn on and off POI and more detailed directions (turn arrows). There are two png files that you should have downloaded that would appear in the "button". One is a checkered flag and the other has the letters POI. The appearances of these images can be flaky. See post #220.

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)
 

@mscion, thanks. I did not realize that index from post#314 is meant to replace the one from post#1 and I would still need other stuff from that post:( These two buttons have shown up once only(during my 1st test run); and they have not reappeared since.

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)
 

Well I've finally come to a solution for the offline search POI thingy I attempted to implement. The issue I never reaslised was Cross Site Scripting which prevented Maps application to talk to the OmVoiceServer through XmlHttpReqest function in javascript (which is why in the original code the plugin had its own xmlhttprequest function). The plugin method would have worked nicely, but the plugin knows if your not connected, and hence won't send anything.

Until I stumbled upon this! http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=984423 Its a bug in the maemo system which allows the N900 to connect to non-existent ad-hoc networks. I actually experienced this bug before on holiday but I completely forgot about it. What it'll do is trick the N900 into thinking your connected to the internet and thus the plugin's function will work.

To setup a no internet network, simply go to {Settings} > {Internet Connections} > {Connections} > {New} > {Next} > Type a connection name, ie "no internet" > {Next} > Select {No} when asked to search for WLAN Networks > Enter anything in the network name ie "no internet" > untick {Network is hidden} > Change Network Mode from infrastructure to {Ad hoc} > {Next} > {Finish}.

Now you select the connection from the Status menu and connect to it. It does take a bit of time to connect compared to other wireless networks, but once its done your set :D

As a last note, apologies for not making many updates in the last few weeks/months. I've kinda lost my drive to program and add extra features into this, and sadly I doubt I'll find it again for a while. Though if anyone does have any issues with running it, please let me know and I'll try fix it up :)

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)
 

Hey guys, I have some questions:

1. Is this (see: quote) now working with all streets/adresses etc. or only with this OmVoiceServer set personal POIs?

2. Where can I get, and where I have to copy the navigation and POI icons, cause in the last version I see no icons under the route-reload button!?

3. What is the "Use Online Search" for? I think it don't work offline?

Thanks!


AlphaX2

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)
 

for answer to question 2, see post #332 and #333

good luck

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)
 

@Blaizzen: i think the ad hoc network also help my setup to work consistently now. You have turned a undocumented 'feature' to something really useful...3 cheers to you.

one question...how do you adjust the volume of voice commands. They are much louder than the espeak for the street name. the volume of espeak is set to max in ovivoiceserver already.

thanks again for you work.

cheers

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)
 

OmVoiceServer allows loading of presaved POIs through the search function in the maps application. If you say search for your home address eg "123 Street St Location" and go to omvoiceserver it'll have under the last tab your last search. You can then save this search (eg "poi-home") from the save button for later quick loading (Save it to the cities folder under a new folder called poi). When you are next out and about with no internet, you can call upon this saved search result by searching for "poi-home" without the need to actually look online for the result (as the results have been already saved). This only works with the above method of making an ad hoc connection (as the plugin still needs to think its online).

Offline search is a work in progress (or it was). I initially wanted to add offline searching if i ever got omvoiceserver to read the database properly, but since there have been no news on how to read it, I've given up for now. I guess for now just leave it ticked.


The voice commands are played using the system volume, so you'll have to manually increase it for the commands. The espeak volume can be adjusted through one of the options through a slider.

Let me know if the volume is still low and what language your using. It might be the actual wav files themselves having low volume.

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)
 

Sorry but ovi maps only allows routing from A to B. There is code in the javascript on how to swap directions, insert destinations etc, but its not implemented by any buttons (that I know of). The best solution I can think of is copying the A text, and pasting it in C, then copying the B text into A and then copying the C back to B :p



Also WIKI PAGE!!! wooooooo (finally).

http://wiki.maemo.org/Ovi_Maps_Extra_Features

Remember to add stuff to it. Its very incomplete and only includes how to set up omVoiceServer and some random information (and lots of spelling mistakes I bet :(). I might try add in the python server too and html method (as they both work fine too).

Re: Ovi Maps Extra Features - Now with voice guidance (early development)
 

Congrats!

One comment though, if I may. Instead of using an ad-hoc connection, which will waste battery, set up a dummy connection which will also make the N900 think it's connected to a network but will not take as long to connect, for one