Report Safety Camera button

[VeeBee]

Up Ahead Places is already turned on, it makes no difference.

I was wondering if reinstalling the Tread app might help, thinking about it, the info is stored on the XT2 device so Tread shouldn’t play any part in it.

Garmin must be aware of the various issues/foibles with their devices but appear uninterested. Like all big faceless corporations, any attempt to complain just falls upon deaf ears. They’re not interested in the people who actually buy their products.

TBH it shouldn’t be a case of try this setting or try that, in the hope it might start working properly again. It should just work as intended; but if for some reason it doesn’t, there should be a readily available solution. Sadly, as we’re well aware, this isn’t the case.

If it wasn’t for this forum and people such as yourself, users would be left high and dry with nowhere to turn. Garmin should have a representative monitoring this forum.

I’ve used various Garmin devices for years, personally I think they’ve lost interest in the motorcycle gps satnav market, which is probably a small part of their business. A shame really, but a sign of the times, people can now just use their phone to provide most of the functionality of a sat-nav device.

[jfheath]

Next time I am out, I will try to find routes that have speed cameras - there aren't many round here. I'm on the edge of North Yorkhsire and N Yorkshire police don't use static cameras, they have sophisticated camera vans and motorcycles that change location every hour - but I know where there are some if I head off in the other direction.

I have often wondered why Garmin would create a motorcycle satnav that prefers to route along faster roads.
Either the programmers have not been briefed properly, have unreasonable time targets and time constraints, are just lazy or there is another agenda that requires satnavs not to route along quiet country lanes for other reasons. A bit like the wartime practice of removing road signs.

But I'll go out and check next time I'm on the bike. I can get the banner at the top of the screen to appear under simulation though. The little icon on the map ? Not sure.

[Regain]

Re ‘Safety’ cameras, a friend and I had noticed they didn’t seem to be alerting as normal. I’m on an XT2 and he’s on a 346. After visiting the Garmin support section, I did everything it asked which was to first delete .gpi files (I deleted them all as it’s not obvious which are the correct ones). After that, I reinstalled my maps via GE to install any wrongly deleted files and updated Red Light Cameras. This can only be done via GE though apparently Tread then keeps them current on a daily basis.

The other thing of note is that Garmin states they will only alert if you are within 10% below the speed limit or any speed over. I’d been running simulations of a route near my home that has two cameras on a stretch of road. Only one of them would alert and only in one direction (the way that it could have pinged me though it’s forward facing so not! ).
I’m not sure what speed the Garmin simulator makes you ride.

Anyway, I’m still not sure it has fixed the issue or if it’s not an issue or it’s all broken as I’ve not been out again since. Worth a look though.

[VeeBee]

My XT2 always used to show cameras on the map and give audio alerts for cameras in my direction of travel. But now there’s nothing at all.

I think these devices are just too buggy to rely on. This is not good for such a device. Mine even shows fuel stations that don’t exist or they are just general stores which don’t even sell fuel! Garmin will just say they’re not responsible for the information.

I also find the adventurous routing makes no difference at all whatever the slider is set to.

I’d really like to be able to rely on this device, specially as it was so expensive, but tbh I’m losing faith in Garmin.

[VeeBee]

I'll go out and check next time I'm on the bike.

Did you manage to find a speed camera to test it yet?

If you did, was it shown on the map and did it give audio alert?

[jfheath]

I was out Yesterday, for the first time in a while, but we never passed a speed camera. I passed a couple of average speed cameras, and they did not show up.

But I was in a bit of a rush to get everything ready, and ended up loading in an earlier route - and then someone needed t be back earlier than I was anticipating, so I changed the route on the fly. It was a great ride, and I was able to alter it and set it up on the XT2 in the cafe at lunchtime. But nothing conclusive I'm afraid. (I was in N Yorkshire for much of it, and they don't do fixed speed cameras !)

[Regain]

Long weekend away using the XT2 for the first time after all my above remedies and updates. Safety Cameras seem to be all present and correct.

I don’t know why Garmin wouldn’t let us download Cyclops updates over WiFi though.