Tevion GPS

I notice aldi are selling GPS units again next week ALDI - special buys from thurs 16 oct - while stocks last
Have to say, for $139 it sounds pretty darn tempting!

I bought one of the Aldi GPS today - good value for $139 and works well - worked well until I connected my computer to it and the software on the unit somehow got corrupted - ie the main gps exe file - fatal error and not fixable without somesort of reload - so back it went and I got a new one 6 hours after purchase.

My brother also bought one but his is not unlocked for red light and speed cameras so his is going back tomorrow - both of mine were unlocked and picked have cameras installed only a few months back.

Unfortunately it does not have school zones which would be good to have.

Still good value for $139.

Garry

On the GPS side of things, these cheap GPS do all of the functions that the big boy GPSs do. Uses Route 66 maps and Mobile 8. One issue is the inbuilt time. Setup only allows none daylight saving time zones to be set - for the east coast GMT +10 (no allowance for DLS). No problems as you get tell the sytem what the actual time is and the system accepts it - except that sometime later the time you set changes back to a non daylight saving time - as a result the GPS times for journey end is then one hour out.

I am assuming the GPS, as it knows where it is, adjusts the time to suit the lat and long on a regular basis but does not have daylight saving adjustments built in.

As I indicated, not an issue except the calculated ETA for a trip ends up being an hour out.

The Aldi (Tevion) help desk is not a lot of help - just noted the issue.

Any thoughts?

Garry

Yes, wind your clocks on an hour and tell everyone you will be there an hour later than you really are.
Easy really.
Well, you asked for thoughts:angel::p.

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Originally Posted by garrycol

On the GPS side of things, these cheap GPS do all of the functions that the big boy GPSs do. Uses Route 66 maps and Mobile 8. One issue is the inbuilt time. Setup only allows none daylight saving time zones to be set - for the east coast GMT +10 (no allowance for DLS). No problems as you get tell the sytem what the actual time is and the system accepts it - except that sometime later the time you set changes back to a non daylight saving time - as a result the GPS times for journey end is then one hour out.

I am assuming the GPS, as it knows where it is, adjusts the time to suit the lat and long on a regular basis but does not have daylight saving adjustments built in.

As I indicated, not an issue except the calculated ETA for a trip ends up being an hour out.

The Aldi (Tevion) help desk is not a lot of help - just noted the issue.

Any thoughts?

Garry

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Move to QLD where the clock will be right! :D :D

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Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

What you need to find out is whether it does a NMEA stream. If it does this then there is a good chance you'll be able to use it with oziexplorer.

As to the mac questions.. I have parallels on this machine and have an XP VM. I use it for all the ozi explorer and nanocom stuff. It's actually the only thing I use it for.

You can plug my Magellan GPS into the mac directly and move files around and so on. This is fine and mostly what I use as I have the maps on my Magellan.

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I haven't seen that particular unit, but I have seen many, many others and NONE of them have a NMEA output.

In other words, you can't use them to drive a computer running Oziexplorer or similar for a moving map. You'll need a bush GPSR for that, eg a Magellan XL, Garmin GPS60cx.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Move to QLD where the clock will be right! :D :D

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:thumbsdown:

Hi Guys,

If you want a local designed GPS that has all Australian maps as well as being able to run OZI Explorer (Win CE based).
Check out LogicGear GPS. Just Google the name.
I've had mine for over 12 months & the best buy by far.
They even tell you how to run other GPS programs!

Cheers..Bruce

its wince based and its hackable......

you dont have to have a nmea output to make it run oziCE but the hack takes a bit to do.

There is a lot of discussion on the Aldi units on the GPS Australia forum.

GPS Australia - Tevion


Colin