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So apparently you can get speed camera alerts on your Mercedes... as in on the in-built sat nav.
I gotta try this!
Okay so theoretically speaking all of the fixed speed cameras for the UK are on this memory stick
and if I plug it in it's going to give me alerts before I get there....
Well there's only one way to find out!
Let's plug it in and test it out!
And handily there is a speed camera literally just
up the road here so I am genuinely curious to see what happens so.....
I can see it!
Ah!
Now there's a sound I have not heard from MBUX before!
Well there we go speed cameras kind of natively in MBUX!
That's pretty cool!
Hey what's up guys and welcome to the channel my name is Nick O'Leary!
Now speed cameras in a Mercedes!
I never thought I'd see the day and well as you've seen surprisingly does actually work.
So this guide is a little tutorial on how you can
do the same thing for your own car and there's two things you can try.
Number one is the free version which is on this website here so this is called
free speed-cam-updates and I did try this but it didn't actually work well it didn't work at all.
Maybe it's only compatible with maybe certain models or something like that but
suddenly for the car that I tried so it was an A-Class with MBUX it didn't work.
So then what I did is move on to the paid version.
The actually money
involved was actually very small so this is of course all correct at the time recording.
S what was it, I think 10 euros for the entire year?
So convert that to pounds that's even less
but yeah look at the sported devices it's Mercedes COMAND online there's NTG 4.5, 5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.5.
I mean I've only been making videos on YouTube for the past few years and I've
I've never heard of any of the ones before 5.5 or 5.2 so I didn't realise there were more!
But there's Mercedes MBUX as well so NTG 6 & NTG7.
Also double check on this website to make sure it is compatible just because you've got
one of those doesn't mean that it will work you do need to check the software version.
Now if you have got your car connected via Mercedes me then it should be doing
it automatically and updating it certainly on one of the newer multimedia systems.
But read through all the notes on here before you buy it and just make sure it is compatible
because once you have bought it there's no going back it does clearly state that.
Yeah if you did follow the instructions on here
there's a few frequently asked questions and things like that.
If you did follow it all this is what you do.
So once you've paid and downloaded I should add it is only for the year as well so if you want
to do it for another year then obviously double check the prices at the time.
But yeah once you have got your download link you'll be presented with this screen and yes
you can get speed camera detection for all of those countries on the on the left there.
Now I will just add double check the reason why speed cameras are not in a Mercedes-Benz
in the first place is because they're not actually allowed in Germany so there are
certain countries in the world where speed camera detection is not allowed
so do double check if you're going to drive to Europe or something in the UK it's fine.
But yeah what I did I did Europe
and went down to the United Kingdom of course you can add more if you want to.
Now this is what I thought was quite clever that you didn't get
on the free one and the free one didn't work anyway but look you
can choose the icons you want to appear on the multimedia screen on the Sat Nav.
Now I did this one so it's basically the speed camera symbol.
My method for doing that was just because there's already similar symbols like that
on MBUX and COMAND so I thought well that symbols not on there so that'd
be quite useful and I have seen I'm sure I've seen a traffic light symbol
on there before so I thought let's do something that's you can clearly see.
Because you know if you're driving you want a quick glance that's why I thought I'd
um choose that one.
This next thing is a few settings from the looks of it for France I didn't get to try that out
and I'm not sure what those two those two do but I left it as just the correct position.
The one underneath I thought was quite clever actually you can actually choose the pre-warning
in seconds now I did 15 seconds and granted I did edit the video just slightly differently just
to speed it up because I didn't want to take too long just showing you what the ding sounded like.
Yes that warning that comes through just for context....that sound!
You can choose!
So you can do 5 seconds 15 or 25 before you get to the speed camera.
Of course a reminder this is fixed speed cameras
so this right here is not going to come up on this sort of thing.
This is obviously a mobile speed camera that you'll be familiar with.
This is only fixed speed cameras so one's on
like a motorways or ones that are actually in the ground.
So obviously just factor that in!
But yeah so after that you hit download and then we move on
to the final part which involves putting them onto a memory stick.
Now once you've plugged your memory stick in this is what it's going to look like so
what you want to do is make sure you've got a folder called "PersonalPOI" now
the reason why it's called personal POI and this is personal points of interest.
Very cleverly the speed cameras themselves on the on on this thing come up as POI's in the car
and I'll show you how to enable it in the car in the second once we've got it on the memory stick.
But yeah basically they are a personal point of Interest so that's why they appear on there but
yeah that's why there's a folder called personal POI.
So make that folder "Personal" and then no space "POI" and then basically you
just drop your two files into there as per the instructions on the website.
The next bit is super easy this is where we turn our attention to the car.
Now this will vary slightly depending on your model of Mercedes and multimedia
systems so this guide is for NTG 6 just because I know that is the most common.
It will be in a slightly different location for NTG 7.
So all you do on the car's multimedia system is basically make sure you're on the home screen,
press navigation then go to the very bottom right hand corner where the cog is the settings.
Tap on that one then scroll down to Advanced.
In here make sure you're on View tab which it is at the moment, then go down to map elements.
From here go to POI symbols so points of interest symbols.
Make sure display POI's is enabled for a start
and then scroll all the way down to the bottom and you will see personal POI's.
Tap on this one and then you'll see your two files there that you downloaded from the website.
So tap on both of these and then make sure that you've got all three enabled.
So this will be display on the map the visual warning and acoustic
notification if you want the sound to come through when you get near.
Now if you just want the visual elements just
leave the top two enabled but don't enable the third one.
But yes guys it's as simple as that basically just going on to the website
choosing either the free version I mean obviously try that out first
but as I said it sadly didn't work for me and the car I had access to.
But yeah I just went on this website if you want to see what these are links are in the
description down below and I'll put them in the comments section as well for the free and
the paid version and of course if you need some hardware as well so if you need a memory stick
got that down below in the description and of course USB-C adapters as well if you need that.
Now I should add if you are using COMAND you probably just need the memory stick
but if you are using MBUX then you might need a USB-C to USB dongle as well.
But yeah that's as easy as that I guess the alternative to this is
to use Smartphone Integrations so this will be Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.
Basically this is of course using your phone and is connected to the internet
certainly things like Waze have community based kind of speed camera and police alerts
and that sort of thing so those are going to give you the most up-to-date information.
But this is particularly useful if you like the Mercedes navigation.
So if you want to know more about Apple CarPlay make sure you check out
this playlist right here as this one has all the things I've covered with
Apple CarPlay from new features tips and tricks and even troubleshooting as well.
Thanks so much for watching guys, until next week see you then!