Getting audio Custom POI alerts for McDonald's or Starbucks may drive you absolutely crazy in most cities. A large radius TourGuide will likely cause a lot of false positive alerts so use them with care.Īlso, don't go wild with alerts. License: Freeware (Free) File Size: 16. With POI Loader for Windows, you can configure the unit to alert you when you are. The input files can be downloaded from the internet or you can create your own. For example, the combined rest area POI file should always give you an alert while a Walmart POI file may rarely give an along-the-road alert.Ī workaround is to use TourGuide radius alerts or to relocate a POI file's locations for each POI. POI Loader for Windows allows you to load custom points of interest into your unit. Carefully read this FAQ and see if your custom POIs that fail your expected alert may have the specific POI locations more than 98 feet from the center of the roadway.
#GARMIN POI LOADER WINDOWS 10 UPDATE#
With the help of POI Loader, you can update your compatible Garmin GPS with the latest POIs, including restaurants, safety camera locations and tourist destinations. Your failure to have alerts for custom POIs may be due to the "along the road" 98-foot issue. POI Loader is free software for your computer that lets you upload customized points of interest (POIs) to your compatible Garmin device. Will continue to monitor the differences.
I also now wonder what the difference between answering No or Yes would be to your results.ĭid the NY / NJ / PA trip here is the results as to the NO / YES pop-up with POI Loader:Īll the Custom POIs worked for identification by icons īut for manual distances notification and sounds, some worked for the distance / sound I set, some did not until nearer and some not at all. I wonder if setting the destination (for the created gpi file) to a folder on your PC or maybe a SD card could cause those messages.
#GARMIN POI LOADER WINDOWS 10 INSTALL#
Could it be your Windows User Account Control setting? My PC is set to "Notify me only.(default)" and wonder if maybe yours is set to "Always notify." I install my custom POIs directly to my Garmin device. It's odd though, as I've never had this happen. Thanks and it's good to know all is working as you wish. I was just concerned about how the NO answer I gave each time may make a difference. On a test run today those in area travelled appear to work pretty good. Running POI Loader to install at least 5 custom POIs, individual icons and sounds (named the same except for the extension) located in the same folder.ĥ. I found the sox-14-0-1 zip and extracted the sox.exe file and Yes I found out that the newer versions don't work.Ĥ. Running the POILoader.exe in the Garmin Folder "POILoader' located in Program Files (x86), and in which another post advised that I place the sox.exe file.ģ. POI Loader or Windows : similar pop-up that Windows gives when installing/updating a program.Ģ.
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