NavPOInt is back with Custom Firmware Support!

NavPOInt now requires installation of our Custom RNS-E firmware, which adds support for Album Art, Audible POI Alerts, SD Card Maps and much more!

About

NavPOInt is a tool for adding custom Points of Interest (POI) to your Audi Satellite Navigation Plus (RNS-E)*. Without it, there is no way to add your own POIs - the official Audi DVD simply comes with a selection of pre-defined POI categories (petrol stations, hotels, etc.) as chosen by Audi. You can NOT change these ordinarily and they do NOT include, for instance, safety camera locations.

With NavPOInt add your own categories, each with a unique custom icon of your choosing, to the navigation systems map display. Using NavPOInt you can add safety camera locations, or any other more specialised POI you wish, to create your own uniquely personalised navigation DVD!

This highly useful feature, available as standard on most after market GPS systems, can now be added to your Audi system with our simple and easy to use PC software. Full integration with the RNS-E menus allows you to select which POI appear, just like you can for the existing built in categories such as Petrol Stations, Cinemas, Shopping Centres, etc.

Our custom firmware even adds the ability to select an optional audible alert to be played whenever you are within range of any chosen POI category.

All you need is a PC running Windows and the ability to burn DVD+R DL (Dual Layer) disks, or write to SD Cards. Simply download a safety camera or other POI database from one of the many sites available (we recommend PocketGPSWorld.com or SCDB.info) and our unique software provides everything else you need to create your customised navigation media.

Start using NavPOInt today and enjoy a safer and more fun driving experience!

* RNS-E is the DVD based navigation system available as an option on Audi A3 (8P 2003 on), A4 (8E 2001-2008), A6 (4B 2001-2005), TT (8J 2006 on) and R8 models. You can tell if you have an RNS-E system because it says "Audi Satellite Navigation Plus" on the unit.

FULL UK Postcode Lookup

We have now updated navPOInt to include the ability to add full UK postcode lookup to your navigation disk. That's right, over 1.5 million UK postcodes directly mapped to their individual destination streets! No more annoying part postcode, part street name address lookups. Simply enter the full postcode and house number like most other sat nav users have done for years, and you're ready to go!

Once you have entered the full postcode, you can chose to either select the individual street automatically and then enter the house number, or navigate directly to the postcodes geographic co-ordinates as supplied by the Post Office and Ordnance Survey. For some addresses, where the original Audi DVD does not contain a matching street name for the given postcode, only the option to navigate to the geographic location will be available. However in a large number of cases we find the Ordnance Survey's geographic co-ordinates to be more accurate than the Audi house number database.

Pricing

To use NavPOInt you need to install our custom firmware and then purchase a Feature Pack licence for your RNS-E. This licence fully enables the AlbumArt, VIM Unlock, Audible POI Alert, and SD Card Maps features of the new firmware. Also included is a complementary NavPOInt licence to enable authoring of your own navigation media including your custom POI and full 7-digit UK postcodes.

Feature Pack for 192 or 193 PU RNS-E ONLY: £15.00

NOTE: Feature pack purchases do NOT include copyright maps or links to map downloads. Please source your own maps on DVD or ISO for use with our products.

Stuart McConnachie

NavPOInt was written by Stuart William McConnachie, an IT buff and Audi TT enthusiast.

Stuart was born and raised in South London, only just able to lay claim to being 'a child of the sixties'. Since graduating from Reading University he has worked as an Analyst Developer of retail applications for over 30 years. Recently he has moved from his previous job with IBM to work for an independent software house supplying world-class software to Optical chains.

During his career he has programmed in a wide variety of languages and environments, and gained a wealth of valuable business experience; but currently utilizes his sharp business acumen and C#.NET skills in his day job.

He lives in Orpington, Kent, where he is slowly renovating his house into the 21st century with help from friends, relatives and anyone else he can press-gang.