TH-55E + CC5(US) + TOMTOM5.12 - How To

[dbrich]

Well, I fumbled on the method to use TomTom 5 with the CC5 car cradle. It all happened when the car charger for my car cradle stopped working and I bought a TOMTOM 5 bluetooth navigation package to check out. Since I use the TH55 E with bluetooth, the last version TOMTOM made that still supported the CLIE was 5.12. This navigation package comes bundled with a bluetooth GPS unit.

I used the TOMTOM package and I'm very happy with the software over the Streetfindr software on the CC5 cradle.

A couple of weeks ago I found out Dan T had a car charger to sell for the CC5 so I bought it and now the cradle is back up and operating.

Now, to get TOMTOM5 working with the cradle I had to use all the hardware provided - the car cradle, the TOMTOM5 bluetooth GPS, and TH55E. You will not get the car cradle software to allow the cradle's wired GPS to work with the TOMTOM software. What you have to do is start up the CC5 as normal. (I prefer to leave home preference in CLIE Organize Prefs. I also have TOMTOM set up to launch off my third button using multilauncher found in the freeware site here.)

I turn on the TOMTOM GPS mouse and then after starting my music on the cradle start up the TOMTOM navigator software. It recognizes the bluetooth GPS and responds. The only interference I seem to get from the car cradle is the inability to receive the voice commands, to me this is negligible. I can still use all the renavigation and route planning settings in TOMTOM.

[DanT]

:cool:

I also have the tomtom Bluetooth, model MkII, from one of among many TH55/E1s that I purchased in the past year. One of these days I'll play around with it. I may give you a shout if I get stuck, if you don't mind.

What you're saying is that you don't want to let the CC5 launcher to start, i.e., uninstall CC5 software? Also you use the CC5 cradle just for cradle and charging?

[dbrich]

The TOMTOM5 with the CC5 launcher software is totally usable. I played around with it this morning. You can set home to the car launcher use multi launch to launch TOMTOM5 off a button, enable bluetooth, (using the tomtom bluetooth GPS). Surprisingly it started giving me driving direction voice prompts while I was playing music with audioplayer. I still use the remote with the car cradle.

[DanT]

:cool:
Thanks for the tips. It shows TH55 is still useful to have around with iPhone. Will check it this weekend.

[dbrich]

Just a follow up on the TOMTOM 5 voice prompts. The audio player form the cradle must be playing music for TOMTOM to use voice. With audio player not in use TOMTOM will not talk.

[thacker]

Thanks for the TIP this works great! :) I've also noticed that the bluetooth remains active once to exit the TOMTOM software and the car software doesn't crash. You still have to have bluetooth turn off when you first insert it into the cradle.

Voice Prompting while listening to music is great!

[dbrich]

I really like it also. Now with voice prompt broadcast over the radio you have great volume control.