uNav works great but isn't playing Voice commands (no sound from uNav).
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uNav works as well as you'd expect from OpenStreet which is great. It doesn't have every address of course since it's an open source contributed project, but it works! I'm just glad to have something that can get me close and the maps are very nice.
What doesn't seem to work is the Voice commands. I can play a voice from the area where a voice is chosen (play arrow on each voice downloaded) and hear nothing.
Where do I start to look? Notifications for messages come through. Youtube or other web sounds work. Just no uNav.
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@777funk said in uNav works great but isn't playing Voice commands (no sound from uNav).:
uNav works as well as you'd expect from OpenStreet which is great. It doesn't have every address of course since it's an open source contributed project, but it works! I'm just glad to have something that can get me close and the maps are very nice.
What doesn't seem to work is the Voice commands. I can play a voice from the area where a voice is chosen (play arrow on each voice downloaded) and hear nothing.
Where do I start to look? Notifications for messages come through. Youtube or other web sounds work. Just no uNav.
To update this thread. It not is possible to hear the sample voice when I press the play arrow. But shouldn't it announce the first turn when I start navigation? I know on the first real route, it was silent and when I start navigation, it's still silent.
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I never tried audible directions in Unav as I preferred PureMaps, which definitely worked the one time I experimented with directions. (Generally I did not use use directions as all I wanted was the maps.)
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@cliffcoggin said in uNav works great but isn't playing Voice commands (no sound from uNav).:
I never tried audible directions in Unav as I preferred PureMaps, which definitely worked the one time I experimented with directions. (Generally I did not use use directions as all I wanted was the maps.)
uNav seems to be the stock GPS app. I tried it today and surprisingly the voice commands work. It constantly seemed to lose track of my position however. I consider it too buggy to depend on for anything important. This is on a Nexus 5.
That said, I usually just print off directions before ever leaving home anyway, so it makes little difference to me that it doesn't seem to run all that well. The phone works like a small laptop for net surfing and texts. So that's good enough to be pretty useful!
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@777funk GPS worked well, albeit slowly, on my Nexus 5. Install Sensor Status to find whether your mapping problem is the result of an erratic GPS signal or simply the slowness of an old phone.
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I am using uNav very often and it worked great for me all the time (Google Pixel 3a) BUT I have to be sure that uNav is the only app currently running that consumes data from GPS. If the sensor app is running in the background, then uNav freezes after a few minutes. Maybe this could be an issue here.
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@cliffcoggin said in uNav works great but isn't playing Voice commands (no sound from uNav).:
I never tried audible directions in Unav as I preferred PureMaps, which definitely worked the one time I experimented with directions. (Generally I did not use use directions as all I wanted was the maps.)
PureMaps is great. Thanks for mentioning it. I also installed OSM Scout Server and the online maps for the regions I regularly travel. Just that functionality alone is a Google Maps killer for me! Very nice to have offline maps in detail.
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@777funk said in uNav works great but isn't playing Voice commands (no sound from uNav).:
PureMaps is great. Thanks for mentioning it. I also installed OSM Scout Server and the online maps for the regions I regularly travel. Just that functionality alone is a Google Maps killer for me! Very nice to have offline maps in detail.
Glad to hear it. The offline functionality was essential for me, while being invisible to Google was a bonus.
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@cliffcoggin said in uNav works great but isn't playing Voice commands (no sound from uNav).:
@777funk said in uNav works great but isn't playing Voice commands (no sound from uNav).:
PureMaps is great. Thanks for mentioning it. I also installed OSM Scout Server and the online maps for the regions I regularly travel. Just that functionality alone is a Google Maps killer for me! Very nice to have offline maps in detail.
Glad to hear it. The offline functionality was essential for me, while being invisible to Google was a bonus.
Who doesn't like that idea. Lol. I do wonder though since UT uses android in the background and some aspects of the Morph browser look like Chrome and of course in my case the phone itself is a Google Nexus.