Copilot
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I assume that you’re using the standard car version as the Caravan / Motorhome version is £49.99 at the moment
funflair
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My CoPilt caravan shows a 8’ 2” bridge under the railway on Bunnion road or similar.Is it worthwhile buying the caravan version then? The TomTom we've used is the standard one and we've never had any problems with that as far as bridges go.
Well that's if you don't include the 2.8 metre low bridge that left me stranded in a one way system in the middle of Basingstoke. It wasn't really that embarrassing to have to call out the police and have them close the access road so I could drive up it the wrong way to escape
The only thing in my favour is that the council refuse to put up a low bridge warning sign and the police are called out once a week to sort out people like me!
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I think a dunk in the roof or 20 extra miles detour covers the costs. They do offers at the end of the year (may be worth a search as someone usually flags them up) so perhaps worth waiting. I think it is usually around Christmas.
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Is it possible to load Tomtom or similar safety camera/speed camera alerts on Copilot ?
The CoPilot maps have safety cameras marked and you can turn alerts on or off.
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It must have gone back up then. I purchased mine last week with '30% off' at £34.99 for the caravan version.
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Do you get any camera alerts in France ?
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Oh well the price has gone back up to £49.99 now, but on the upside the Lenovo Tab3 with gps has dropped by £10 to £59.95 at John Lewis
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Sorry no idea, haven’t downloaded the French maps.
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Camera alerts are working in Spain
funflair
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I am pretty sure that the camera alerts turn themselves off in places where they are not allowed.
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No.
Alerts work in the UK and Spain.
Our Garmin does give camera alerts in France as "Dangerous road section" as camera alerts are illegal. There are lots of temporary speed cameras being used in France that are not on the database. First one you might encounter at the moment is on the A16 at Boulogne as you enter the road works.
Richard.
I have used copilot Caravan for the first time over the past 2 weeks in France. I have had a garmin for about 10yrs which I used as well in parallel -the garmin doesn't do dimensions or weight (we are 3.8k). Found Copilot faster locking on to Gps signal. We turned of the speed camera feature in France (it is illegal to have it on) -wasn't aware that it would have done this automatically as Martin and Richad suggest.
On problem with it (advice please) is that lots of towns have 3.5k limits 'sauf livraison' ie deliveries /access only. The Copilot tries to avoid all ofthese. When an aire is in such a restricted zone (often is) it sends you round the houses trying to avoid it -and of course you just have to ignore it. It then of course gets very upset and tries to send you back out of the zone as quickly as possible. Going from on aire to another within the zone was a nightmare! My worry is that by ignoring it I might try going under a 3m bridge (on my Samsung Note size screen all the alerts look similar).
I have set up different profiles for over 3.5k and under as well as for using or not using tolls depending on how quickly I wanted to go. Sometimes in France with the settings to avoid minor roads it did send you out of your way to avoid a short length of wide D road (marked on the Michelin map as a wide road). I had to manually input a stop in the middle of the D road to get it to reconsider this route as an alternative and it didn't always want to do this either.
Overall however I'm happy with it -a larger screen is my next addition.
On problem with it (advice please) is that lots of towns have 3.5k limits 'sauf livraison' ie deliveries /access only. The Copilot tries to avoid all ofthese. When an aire is in such a restricted zone (often is) it sends you round the houses trying to avoid it -and of course you just have to ignore it. It then of course gets very upset and tries to send you back out of the zone as quickly as possible. Going from on aire to another within the zone was a nightmare! My worry is that by ignoring it I might try going under a 3m bridge (on my Samsung Note size screen all the alerts look similar).
I have set up different profiles for over 3.5k and under as well as for using or not using tolls depending on how quickly I wanted to go. Sometimes in France with the settings to avoid minor roads it did send you out of your way to avoid a short length of wide D road (marked on the Michelin map as a wide road). I had to manually input a stop in the middle of the D road to get it to reconsider this route as an alternative and it didn't always want to do this either.
Overall however I'm happy with it -a larger screen is my next addition.
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That's very helpful thanks.
So far I've been using a 5" TomTom but I'm now finding the screen size too small.
I don't know what size display is on your Samsung Note, I was about to buy a Lenovo 7" tablet as I think it would be easier to keep in place than a heavier 10" tablet.
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A lot of the 3.5 ton limits are for lorries only, they have a truck symbol on the sign. If no truck symbol they refer to all over 3.5 ton vehicles. The sat-nav's don't know that we aren't a lorry so avoid all 3.5 ton limits, going through Orleans is a particular pain in the butt.
On my Co-Pilot I have set the weight (4.5 tons) and dimensions for our van and also an alternative set up for the same dimensions but weight set at 3.4 tons. That takes away the fear of encountering low bridges. One of the advantages of Co-Pilot is that you can set up multiple vehicle types.
Sounds like you may have done the same.
Richard.
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Hello all,
I’ve just bought a Lenovo tablet to use as a satnav in our 2013 Peugeot Boxer, unfortunately the volume of the tablet isn’t loud enough.
Although there’s a usb socket in the centre glovebox that just seems to be a power supply.
The factory radio has working Bluetooth but no auxiliary input socket.
I can pair the tablet via Bluetooth to the radio but get no sound, has anyone managed to get the spoken directions to play through the van speakers ?
I’ve just bought a Lenovo tablet to use as a satnav in our 2013 Peugeot Boxer, unfortunately the volume of the tablet isn’t loud enough.
Although there’s a usb socket in the centre glovebox that just seems to be a power supply.
The factory radio has working Bluetooth but no auxiliary input socket.
I can pair the tablet via Bluetooth to the radio but get no sound, has anyone managed to get the spoken directions to play through the van speakers ?
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Bluetooth directions seem to work with a phone but not a tablet. The only solution is to connect the phones socket on the tablet to the Aux input on the radio, it there is one.
Needs ap lsad wth a 3.5mm jack each end.
Needs ap lsad wth a 3.5mm jack each end.
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Jim
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Copilot. How do you add your current location to favourites?
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Just had a quick go as I've not tried adding the current position to Favourites, only plotted destinations.
I did it by going to Browse Map and finding our home position, then tapping on that position so that a 'flag' shows the road name, click on the arrow for more options, then click on the favourites star symbol.
Richard.
funflair
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Hi Jim
Somebody beat me to it while I was working it out and doing screen shots
Yes you have to go to "browse map" from the main menu,
Yes we are at Peterborough, Busy weekend didn't even get to say hello to you Sorry Jim, did see a few funsters for a catch up though.
Martin
Somebody beat me to it while I was working it out and doing screen shots
Yes you have to go to "browse map" from the main menu,
Yes we are at Peterborough, Busy weekend didn't even get to say hello to you Sorry Jim, did see a few funsters for a catch up though.
Martin
Jim
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Thanks. I'll take a look later.. Every sat Nav I've ever owned has a simple function. Within favourites, you click to add a favourite and then choose "current location" That looks to be almost as simple but not as intuitive. Thanks
I think “intuitive” is what CoPillot lacks. Also I think it works by address/road only so dropping a marker on a field or track doesn’t work, I would be happy to be proved wrong on this limitation.
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Not sure but the soundabout app may help with that. It looks like it will route audio to Bluetooth.
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Yes you do! I'm in France now and by the way Co-Pilot Caravan has taken me through Rouen safe and sound.
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I drop a marker in Map mode. Sometimes I know where I need to be but can't name it so i chose pick a point on a map. Drop your marker and get direction s to it from your current location.
Or lug in something like one of these into the headphone jack on the tablet and the USB in the cab to power it Amazon product ASIN B071HV6WKT
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