Problem with announcing via points

[Gerard van der Veer]

I tested it and noticed the following: when I place a shaping point, for example 500 meters before a via point, I would expect to hear the information about that via point only at that moment. However, I am already hearing the information at a distance of 2000 meters.

I have tried this with several different routes, and it does not seem to make any difference whether there is a shaping point before the via point or not. The announcement always starts at 2000 meters.

What could be causing this?

[Brian McG]

Hi @Gerard-van-der-Veer this post has some useful info on when announcements are made
https://forum.myrouteapp.com/topic/7504/text-to-speech-function-questions?_=1771278098552

[Nick Carthew]

@Gerard-van-der-Veer Your original problem was that you could not hear the announcements, now you can - problem solved

[Gerard van der Veer]

Hi Nick, totally agree — really great!
But I’m now wondering how it’s possible that I already hear the information at 2000 meters, even though I set a shaping point about 1000 meters before the via point.

[Nick Carthew]

@Gerard-van-der-Veer Yep, that’s a strange one. I must admit that it has been some time since I used this feature, and I do try to plan my routes accordingly, so it may have changed now. @Con-Hennekens is more up to date, he may be able to answer or offer a solution.

[Gerard van der Veer]

Okay Rick, thanks again so much. Maybe others know how this exactly works.
Talk to you sometime!

[Con Hennekens]

@Nick-Carthew said in Problem with announcing via points:

@Con-Hennekens is more up to date

Well I am not so certain of that

@Gerard-van-der-Veer, Are you saying that you hear the name and/or note of a via point at 2000 mtrs, while there still is a shaping point in between at 500 mtrs? It is my understanding that audible notes should wait until they are next in line. That is, in a route navigated as route. It might be different (it likely is) for routes navigated as track. There is a technical reason for this assumption, but that is beyond the scope here. So my question to you is: do you have "navigate route as track enabled" by any chance, or are you navigating a route planned on a map other than here (those are navigated as track by default, even without the feature enabled).

[Gerard van der Veer]

Hi Con-Hennekens, thanks for thinking along with us.

I simply navigate using the Here map and select navigation as a route, not as a track. I created a test route with two via points and placed a shaping point at different distances before each via point. In all cases, I already received the via point information at 2000 meters. Strange.., very strange..

[Marinus van Deudekom]

I wiil perform a test today and report back

[Marinus van Deudekom]

Just did the test drive
Made a ROUTE and followed it. It contained 3 viapoints and 5 shapingpoints, start, in between and end.
The viapoint in the middle was announced accoring to the plan aprox. 2 km in advance.
I put 2 shapingpoint less than 2 km before the end viapoint.
At 2 km before the end, nothing was announced
at the last shapingpoint before the end viapoint aprox 600 meter before the end viapoint the end Viapoint was announced.
Maybe @Gerard-van-der-Veer did not change the text in the Viapoints that he used and therefore nothing was announced. It is mandatory that you change the text of a viapoint into something else nothing using numbers in it.
During my test everything when according the plan so no problems there
Have fun