Audi POI Special Destinations - Another way to do it

andy203 said:
Thanks Phil, worked a treat on my new Q5 Black, with Tech pack. Have a question, when I update my system with an updated speed camera data, do I have to delete my POIs of special interest first before doing the update of the MMI, maps? Or do I just load the new data over the top of existing?
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Hi Andy, great so pleased it worked for you. In the txt file that it builds as part of the install it seems to delete all previous POIs with the same category so you are ok. I've just recently done this myself and changed the names of the cameras so can confirm it has deleted my old ones.
 
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pjeffe9172 said:
Hi Andy, great so pleased it worked for you. In the txt file that it builds as part of the install it seems to delete all previous POIs with the same category so you are ok. I've just recently done this myself and changed the names of the cameras so can confirm it has deleted my old ones.
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Many thanks Phil, great help.
 
Hi all I have just been looking at this and was hoping it would work on my 2014 MMI. How can i tell if it will work it does have audi connect
 
Hi All,

Little help please. Anyone with active PocketGPSWorld subscription get me database for Mercedes ( .gpx file/database) for me to try before I renew my two old expired subscription. Currently using https://www.scdb.info database which works fine but their database is not up to date as most cameras on my commute are missing.

Please Help.

Sal
 
Thanks for all the hard work and guides here - v much appreciated.

My wife has an April 2019 Audi Q2 S Line, I've bought the POI subscription, downloaded the Audi POI and installed them via mem card slot 2 in the car.

I can navigate to the speed camera's under Special Destinations, I can also select to view on map, but they don't appear on the sat nav map whilst driving??

Any tips or suggestions gratefully received - I have an A45 AMG and adding speed cameras was a piece of **** on that compared to doing so on the Audi MMI :)
 
Probably there is a means to do this in the A3 8v forums as the Q2 mmi is different to the one in the A4...
 
Ok, I'll have a look there too - I'd thought the Sat Nav stuff was mostly here so sorry if I'm posting in the wrong forum :) TBH I'm bashing my head in trying to work this out, I'm good with tech normally and this is getting silly now, why make it so hard to use Special Destinations in Audi's???
 
Open the file structure and edit with a text editor the file categories.pc so that the zoom level is set to max=30.
 
Fozzie1960 said:
Open the file structure and edit with a text editor the file categories.pc so that the zoom level is set to max=30.
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I'm going to try that, however, if it was just the icon issue wouldn't the notification still sound even if the icon isn't visible?

Thanks
 
ST09 said:
Hi All,

Little help please. Anyone with active PocketGPSWorld subscription get me database for Mercedes ( .gpx file/database) for me to try before I renew my two old expired subscription. Currently using https://www.scdb.info database which works fine but their database is not up to date as most cameras on my commute are missing.

Please Help.

Sal
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Hmmm No One. No worries
 
Just been having a go at loading the POI's onto POI Base I notice when loading pocketgps_uk_mobile excel file it loaded exactly 5000 points, so it got me thinking that the max number of point were 5000 too , so I open up the file in excel and saw that there was 7882 entrys,
It must clip of 2882 camera points which maybe the cameras that u may need just a note !
So I've just cut and pasted them into pocketgps_uk_p mobile file as it only had 1678 entry's so at leased they will still warn me
 
lfcrule1972 said:
I'm going to try that, however, if it was just the icon issue wouldn't the notification still sound even if the icon isn't visible?

Thanks
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So, after much reading and fiddling in the car, this now works in the Q2, it appears that you need to select all notifications in the MMI to allow it to show the cameras :eek:
 
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New member, after reading this thread. Just wondering if any of you have stuck to the POIBase POI's as they look fairly evenly matched in camera numbers now and appear to show the correct direction they're facing locally?

Is PocketGPS worth the extra as it's more than twice the price?
 
Hi
Anyone managed to do this on the Audi A6 C8? On my A6 C8's MMI I cannot find any option to import Special Destinations through USB.
Cheers
 
Added speed cameras successfully as per pjeffe9172 excellent post on my old A4 a couple of years ago but when I tried to install them on my new S3 the option to add Audi special destinations was greyed out, however, I discovered that the engine needs to be running when you import them. All good now except I can't find the option to 'play tone when near POI' when near POI.
 
Anyone done this on an A4 2020 MMI?

Also, is there a free poi database that I could download to test it on before buying the pocket gps world database?
 
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theoldschool said:
Should be the same as my S3 I added it to successfully yesterday. If you go through the process explained by pjeffe9172 at the beginning of this post you should be able to download some free POIs from https://www.poibase.com/en/download-poibase/ but it should work anyway
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Thanks. I can't find any free databases via POIBase, unless you can creat your own or something. Maybe I'll just bite the bullet and give the PocketGPS one a go...
 
Also, is there a danger of deleteing my existing PIOs by doing this, or will it just append the current PIO database in the car?
 
Well, that was a waste of £20! Didn't work in my A4 - it just doesn't find the file. I might try using the other USB port, but it's USB C and I don't have an adaptor... Can't see it working though.

Should have known better really. Ah well in for a penny and all that.
 
Try saving the data onto a SD card - all my succesful attempts were using SD rather than USB. I put it into SD2 slot and the MMI found it OK
 
theoldschool said:
Try saving the data onto a SD card - all my succesful attempts were using SD rather than USB. I put it into SD2 slot and the MMI found it OK
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I don’t think my MY 2020 has an SD slot, unless it’s hidden somewhere. It has one USB A and one USB C port.
 
Now i'm back at work, using the roads again and booked a holiday hundreds of miles away, i've finally decided to get the database after all this time.

However, i'm not sure if it's because i'm a mac users and that means i'm using a beta version of the software, but the POIbase is different for me than in the video. Now, instead of being able to download the file, it processes the files on it's server and is supposed to send me a folder via email.

I've spent nearly 2 hours so far this evening on the site and all went well until I pressed the back button once the camera data from pocketgps was installed in the software. That took me to the glitchy login page which repeatedly tried to log me in again, failing every couple of seconds or so, causing me to close the page and reopen a new piobase page and log back in again, where the data was saved, thankfully. However i'm stuck in 5th place in a queue for the server to process my data and it doesn't look like it's going to be successful as it's been this way for what seems like an eternity.

Maybe the server is under a lot of load this evening, or maybe it's glitchy because it's still in beta for macs, but a shame I couldn't just download the file directly once it was processed. Hope it's salvageable before my trip this weekend.

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@Jigs I've pm'd you the UK map database with improved quality gatso images Ready to plug in and upload to you POIs
 
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Thanks Booboo. Only just spotted this as I came on to update that Poibase sent me an email with a link to the file and instructions, this morning. So must have finally got through once their IT dept became aware of the glitch as I switched off in frustration last night after wasting a full evening.

I've been testing the version I got from there and looks to be great with the Gatso 200yard warning, but less so with the mobile cameras 100 yard warning. Most of those tend to be aimed at cars from a considerable distance, so probably not much use in the real world unless it helps jog ones memory that there could be one there.

Appreciate the effort you took though. Could have really saved the day and made my holiday to Cornwall more enjoyable this weekend. Had plans yesterday and that attempt took up my whole evening.
 
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