Does anyone know if it's possible to get the current speed limit displayed in the colour maxidot, like it is on the nav screen (Columbus)? If so, I'd be very grateful to learn how...

 

Thanks in advance, Martin

Mine does this, but I enabled Traffic Sign Recognition. Not sure if you can just enable speed limit display independent of traffic sign recognition, but either way you will need VCDS or OBDEleven etc.

 

See thread:

 

 

Edited 17 September, 20187 yr by ahenners

Hi and thanks for the reply. I see from the thread you quoted that the "speed limit in maxidot" facility was acheived through sign recognition and that this seems to have certain limitations on accuracy. However, I get a pretty much perfect indication of speed limit on my Columbus navigation screen, presumably just through a built in GPS database. Is there an alternative means of getting this same indication on the maxidot directly from the navigation rather than using sign recognition?

Cheers, Martin

No, it’s not possible. To enable this you need a lane assist camera and you’ll need to enable traffic sign recognition. Accuracy will be much better with Columbus as it uses the navigation data to get information to relay to the Maxidot. It only takes sign data when it reads one. This is great for temporary speed limits or speed limits that have changed since the map data was updated. My car had no nav originally and I’ve retrofitted a MIB2 stereo so the camera isn’t talking to the radio even though the nav data could be used to make my TSR more accurate. I’m working on that though...

Strange. I just scroll through the menu's on the maxidot and have it on the maxidot screen all of the time, unless the sat nav intervenes. 

44 minutes ago, TheWanderer said:

Strange. I just scroll through the menu's on the maxidot and have it on the maxidot screen all of the time, unless the sat nav intervenes. 

 

I have the TSR speed at the very top of the maxi dot and have the Cars speed one the main maxi dot screen

 

@TheWanderer  " Did you get your wheels sorted "

 

 

Edited 17 September, 20187 yr by Auric Goldfinger

 

2 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

No, it’s not possible. To enable this you need a lane assist camera and you’ll need to enable traffic sign recognition. Accuracy will be much better with Columbus as it uses the navigation data to get information to relay to the Maxidot. It only takes sign data when it reads one. This is great for temporary speed limits or speed limits that have changed since the map data was updated. My car had no nav originally and I’ve retrofitted a MIB2 stereo so the camera isn’t talking to the radio even though the nav data could be used to make my TSR more accurate. I’m working on that though...

 

Hi Sasha, so from where does my Columbus (nb without sign recognition) get the current speed limit to display on the top LH corner of the main screen? I can understand the point re temporary/changed limits needing sign recognition, but surely there must be a way to simply redirect the limit info already there to the other display?! Or not...

59 minutes ago, TheWanderer said:

Strange. I just scroll through the menu's on the maxidot and have it on the maxidot screen all of the time, unless the sat nav intervenes. 

Are you talking about speed limit or speed?

23 minutes ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

I have the TSR speed at the very top of the maxi dot and have the Cars speed one the main maxi dot screen

 

@TheWanderer  " Did you get your wheels sorted "

 

 

 

Pardon my ignorance but what is "TSR speed"??

OK I get it TSR= Traffic Sign Recognition"

Edited 17 September, 20187 yr by deepthought

1 hour ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

I have the TSR speed at the very top of the maxi dot and have the Cars speed one the main maxi dot screen

 

@TheWanderer  " Did you get your wheels sorted "

 

 

 

No, I can't afford to just had a bereavement and a tax bill to be paid so until I get a nice rebate they'll have to wait. And it might be even longer as I've now got to have a second hip replacement operation, so never mind eh. 

 

My maxidot shows the speed all the time, I really don't want see the speed limit signs as I have a good old fashioned Mk1 brain and eyeballs for that sort of thing. 

1 hour ago, TheWanderer said:

 

No, I can't afford to just had a bereavement and a tax bill to be paid so until I get a nice rebate they'll have to wait. And it might be even longer as I've now got to have a second hip replacement operation, so never mind eh. 

 

My maxidot shows the speed all the time, I really don't want see the speed limit signs as I have a good old fashioned Mk1 brain and eyeballs for that sort of thing. 

See how good your brain  & eyeballs are with this video.  

 

2 hours ago, deepthought said:

 

 

Hi Sasha, so from where does my Columbus (nb without sign recognition) get the current speed limit to display on the top LH corner of the main screen? I can understand the point re temporary/changed limits needing sign recognition, but surely there must be a way to simply redirect the limit info already there to the other display?! Or not...

Are you talking about speed limit or speed?

The Columbus has the capability to work with the lane assist camera to provide its own speed limit data to supplement what the camera can see. Sadly there is no way I am aware of to have this speed limit data which is embedded in the map data displayed on the Maxidot without coding Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR). No idea why this is the case however.

13 minutes ago, ords said:

See how good your brain  & eyeballs are with this video.  

 

 

 

Yup, I think you've put your finger on why I'd like a permanent display of the present speed limit right there in front of me all the time...

8 minutes ago, SashaGrace said:

The Columbus has the capability to work with the lane assist camera to provide its own speed limit data to supplement what the camera can see. Sadly there is no way I am aware of to have this speed limit data which is embedded in the map data displayed on the Maxidot without coding Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR). No idea why this is the case however.

 

Fair enough, thanks for that.

Martin

22 hours ago, deepthought said:

 

 

Yup, I think you've put your finger on why I'd like a permanent display of the present speed limit right there in front of me all the time...

The you tuber has got a point, very vague signs. Low speed zones are usually well marked & have the speed painted on the road at regular intervals.

 

Country roads are the worst with signs sometimes very far apart. I sometimes find it easy to forget what the speed limit is.

23 hours ago, ords said:

See how good your brain  & eyeballs are with this video.  

 

 

With street lights and in a built up area I'd treat it as a 30. 

On 17/09/2018 at 16:51, SashaGrace said:

The Columbus has the capability to work with the lane assist camera to provide its own speed limit data to supplement what the camera can see. Sadly there is no way I am aware of to have this speed limit data which is embedded in the map data displayed on the Maxidot without coding Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR). No idea why this is the case however.

We have a 2014 vRS and a 2017 Facelift vRS, both fitted with Amundsen units. Both cars have had VCDS coding to enable Traffic Sign Recognition. On the 2014 car the TSR seems to override  the speed information that used to be provided by the satnav. On the 2017 car the two systems are working together so the camera will pick out temporary roadwork speed signs and then, in the absence of road signs, the satnav takes over. For example, I came through road works and 40mph was displayed. Minutes later, while entering a Tesco car park approach road, 20mph was displayed on the maxidot but I had not passed any 20mph signs. This must have come from the satnav database.

Sadly, it is not so clever on the older car and on one occasion I had 100mph dipslayed (and yes, the system is set to mph, not kph). It seems it will not display the speed limit data base from the satnav, so if there are no signs you get no display.

Activating it on a MIB1 Amundsen is the same as doing it on a Bolero as the Amundsen can’t embed speed limit data in the maps like the Columbus can. The MIB2 Amundsen can. My car now has a MIB2 Amundsen but I can’t get the camera to talk to the navigation unit. This is still on the drawing board.

3 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

Activating it on a MIB1 Amundsen is the same as doing it on a Bolero

Anyone got a link to what settings need to be changed ?

It’s in the main VCDS tweaks sticky at the top of this page

16 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

It’s in the main VCDS tweaks sticky at the top of this page

... which assumes you have the high spec camera (A5) not the low spec camera (20)

You have to have the A5 camera, the low spec one doesn’t have the capability to read the signs.

On 17/09/2018 at 13:14, SashaGrace said:

No, it’s not possible. To enable this you need a lane assist camera and you’ll need to enable traffic sign recognition. Accuracy will be much better with Columbus as it uses the navigation data to get information to relay to the Maxidot. It only takes sign data when it reads one. This is great for temporary speed limits or speed limits that have changed since the map data was updated. My car had no nav originally and I’ve retrofitted a MIB2 stereo so the camera isn’t talking to the radio even though the nav data could be used to make my TSR more accurate. I’m working on that though...

 

Did you figured out how to do it with Amundsen MIB2?