Notices


Reply
Thread Tools
gnuite's Avatar
Posts: 1,245 | Thanked: 421 times | Joined on Dec 2005
#51
Originally Posted by kcoury
Well I just bought a GPSlim 240 and installed Maemo Mapper but the Announce feature doesn't seem to work for me. I was able to download a route and download the maps along the route but once I got into my car and set off along the route I didn't get any notifications of when to turn or when a turn was coming up. I made sure I had flite installed and enabled everything in the settings. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Is there anything I'm missing? Thanks in advance for the help.
Were the on-screen notifications appearing? Assuming you downloaded the route via Maemo Mapper, then as you approach a waypoint (a green dot along the route), you should see notifications in the upper-right corner that look something like, "Turn left at XXX Street. Go 2 miles."

If you see those messages and don't hear anything, first check the volume, then try running the following command from an xterm:
Code:
/usr/bin/flite -t "Test"
If you don't hear anything, then flite isn't working properly. If it works fine, then try running Maemo Mapper from the xterm:
Code:
run-standalone.sh /usr/bin/maemo-mapper
Check to see if any error messages are output in the xterm after the on-screen notification appears.
 
dcarter's Avatar
Posts: 229 | Thanked: 29 times | Joined on May 2006
#52
nope. flite works- waypoints aren't being downloaded from the GPX Driving Directions, either direct through maemomapper or via the website- no green dots at intersections.

seems seasonal with google maps for this to happen!
 
gnuite's Avatar
Posts: 1,245 | Thanked: 421 times | Joined on Dec 2005
#53
Originally Posted by dcarter
nope. flite works- waypoints aren't being downloaded from the GPX Driving Directions, either direct through maemomapper or via the website- no green dots at intersections.

seems seasonal with google maps for this to happen!
Yep, it looks like they changed their web formatting again, so waypoint descriptions are broken... I'll fix it soon (visiting the family at the moment).
 
Posts: 10 | Thanked: 0 times | Joined on Jul 2006
#54
the break seemed to coincide with google adding the multi-waypoint feature to google maps... which incidentally would be a nice feature in mapper :-)
 
Posts: 84 | Thanked: 3 times | Joined on Apr 2006 @ USA
#55
Originally Posted by kcoury
Well I just bought a GPSlim 240 and installed Maemo Mapper but the Announce feature doesn't seem to work for me. I was able to download a route and download the maps along the route but once I got into my car and set off along the route I didn't get any notifications of when to turn or when a turn was coming up. I made sure I had flite installed and enabled everything in the settings. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Is there anything I'm missing? Thanks in advance for the help.
Well I have used MaemoMapper couple months ago and then, I was overseas for a while I just had the time to reinstall it... Well, When I used it couple months ago, I remember seeing little boxes appear on the top right side of the screen, which would tell me the directions...
But now I have mapper with flite and I don't see any directions, neither hear the announcements... What should I do?
 
Posts: 84 | Thanked: 3 times | Joined on Apr 2006 @ USA
#56
Well I just tried
/usr/bin/flite -t "Test"
and It worked...
but I don't hear anything while I'm driving from Mapper...
 
gnuite's Avatar
Posts: 1,245 | Thanked: 421 times | Joined on Dec 2005
#57
Originally Posted by gnuite
Yep, it looks like they changed their web formatting again, so waypoint descriptions are broken... I'll fix it soon (visiting the family at the moment).
Waypoint descriptions are back in the GPX Driving Directions web service. Sorry for the delay.
 
Posts: 30 | Thanked: 0 times | Joined on Jul 2006
#58
Can someone explain how to delete a waypoint and add another? thanks

Last edited by tdmajic; 2007-01-02 at 21:46. Reason: forgot a word
 
symbiat's Avatar
Posts: 18 | Thanked: 4 times | Joined on Jan 2007
#59
Originally Posted by gnuite
There's a workaround: I've noticed that, although those lower, "deprecated" versions may not work, Google Maps has no problem if you give it higher, not-yet-existent version numbers. For example, replacing "v=w2.29" with "v=w2.99999" seems to work fine; I think Google reverts to using the most recent valid version.
I, too, have found the Google Maps stop working. The workaround above doesn't seem to work - I get the same error message as the OP.
 
fpp's Avatar
Posts: 2,853 | Thanked: 968 times | Joined on Nov 2005
#60
Same here.
 
Reply

Thread Tools

 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 09:34.