Next Stop Announcments

[Stu]

Been on a few different buses recently where the NSA system wasn't working, with 6912 being the latest one this evening, on the 2 to Maypole.

It appears that the system has 'crashed' shortly after startup, because the time is frozen, in the case of 6912 just now it was stuck at 06:14 while displaying the date and version number.

The time is about correct for when the bus was first powered up this morning, before starting the day doing the 06:31 journey on the 3 to Birmingham.

[dw1308]

Been on a few different buses recently where the NSA system wasn't working, with 6912 being the latest one this evening, on the 2 to Maypole.

It appears that the system has 'crashed' shortly after startup, because the time is frozen, in the case of 6912 just now it was stuck at 06:14 while displaying the date and version number.

The time is about correct for when the bus was first powered up this morning, before starting the day doing the 06:31 journey on the 3 to Birmingham.

I usually find that if it happens on a vehicle I'm driving when I get to my outer terminus I usually isolate it and leave it a few minutes before I turn the bus back on. However some are stubborn and refuse to reboot until randomly I will be driving along then all of a sudden I will hear "X12 to Birmingham"

[BBS]

Heard the announcments on the 11C today, overall not bad, the new voice isn't too bad on some routes, maybe mifht cause confusion in pronunciation but other than that not bad 

[B7RLE]

6935 NSAs ridiculously quiet, can't make out what it's saying

[karl724223]

Had 6941 on pn 6 today and it has got working NSA for the route 

[B7RLE]

6935 NSAs ridiculously quiet, can't make out what it's saying

Further into the journey, going to add to this: aircon has came off so I can hear it better. Sometimes it gets it right, but sometimes it says "Next" instead of "Next Stop", and as for the route I've heard it all...

X10 to Merry Hill
X10 to Hill
X10 Merry Hill
X10
X to Merry Hill

Think it's a bit broken :D

[karl724223]

Further into the journey, going to add to this: aircon has came off so I can hear it better. Sometimes it gets it right, but sometimes it says "Next" instead of "Next Stop", and as for the route I've heard it all...

X10 to Merry Hill
X10 to Hill
X10 Merry Hill
X10
X to Merry Hill

Think it's a bit broken :D

Bus not got air con 

[BBS]

Seems like the NSA bug has been fixed on BC,AG routes, all announcements working with no half way shut offs 

[Ingleboro261F]

Seems like the NSA bug has been fixed on BC,AG routes, all announcements working with no half way shut offs

New problem now, as I was riding the 4A yesterday the announcement jumps straight to saying '4A to...' as soon as it says the stop name when the bus is at that stop. So for example jacey road it would stop there say Jacey road and there would be no delay in saying '4A to ...' whereas before there would be maybe a 2 or 3 second delay before saying the route number.

[MasterPlan]

7533 says the next stop but doesn't announce anything upon reaching the stop or the route and number, then carries on to the next stop afterwards. 

I noticed an anomaly on 6884 on X21 the other evening, all robotic apart from when it said 'Marston Road' in the old voice. Reminded me of the old Harborne network NSAs with their mixture of voices on stops like Serpentine Road.

Also, the Shenley Academy stop still hasn't been fixed despite the fact that the stop was moved forward on Long Nuke Road ages ago,  likewise the Shenley Fields Centre inbound stop on Woodcock Lane was moved forward slightly so no doubt that one is out of sync too.

[BBS]

New problem now, as I was riding the 4A yesterday the announcement jumps straight to saying '4A to...' as soon as it says the stop name when the bus is at that stop. So for example jacey road it would stop there say Jacey road and there would be no delay in saying '4A to ...' whereas before there would be maybe a 2 or 3 second delay before saying the route number.

I've reconised that, not too worrying though, as long as it works 

[mesub]

Reminded me of the old Harborne network NSAs with their mixture of voices on stops like Serpentine Road

Serpentine Road - for the number 11 outer circle!

[Roy]

There were next stop announcements on 6796 on WN 15A this morning.  This is the first time I have heard any next stop announcements on WN services 15/15A/16.  Before now, all we've had is smoke signals! 

[Stu]

7533 says the next stop but doesn't announce anything upon reaching the stop or the route and number, then carries on to the next stop afterwards. 

I've encountered this before, I believe it's caused by some faulty door sensor which affects the logic programming of the announcement sequences.

[MasterPlan]

I've encountered this before, I believe it's caused by some faulty door sensor which affects the logic programming of the announcement sequences.

Yeah I suspected it may have something to do with the doors.