Cheetah Mirror City Mute does not work

[Jamminx]

When I set city Mute on it says " KA band " then continues to beep. Shouldn't it just say Ka band and not beep anymore. Really annoying me what is wrong?

[Stealth Stalker]

What is beeping? The mirror, or the RD? And what RD are you using?

[Jamminx]

I have a Valentine 1 and the GPS mirror integrated togethor. The V1 vol is all the way down so all the sounds come from the GPS mirror. When City Mute is on the Mirror says KA Band and then continues to beep all the time and at the end there is a long beep and it the beeping stops. Should'nt the City Mute on setting keep the beeping off?
Basically having City Mute on or off makes no difference the beeping continues all the way through.

[Cips]

I really know nothing about how the two work together, but I can offer you this: Ka is a signal (as of now) that's nearly exclusively LEO's so maybe the mirror is trying to protect you.

[Jamminx]

Its not just with KA its with K, X . Its basically all bands. The whole purpose of city mute is that the mirror is supposed to just warn you with audible notice and then stay quiet until the signal is lost. Not beep all the way through. Thats my understanding.City Mute is not working on my unit and I've had absolutely no response from Cheetah. I emailed them posted it here for help. I guess I'll keep wiating. This problem happened after I resently upgraded the software. Hopefully its just a setting or maybe a software problem.

[Jamminx]

here is the response i got.

Thanks for getting in touch.

You mirror is working correctly. KA band signals are never a false
alarm and laser is extremely rarely a false alarm so both these alerts
are excluded from the City Mute feature. The logic is that if either
those signals are present, you definitely want to know about them.

You can manually mute the radar alert if you want to by a quick press of
button 3 during an alert.

Hope this helps.


Al Smith

[allyoops]

I've had absolutely no response from Cheetah. I emailed them posted it here for help. I guess I'll keep wiating.

I'm going to pull you up on this point. You emailed the UK head office at 6.36pm local time today (out of office hours) and got a response back with 6 hours (again out of office hours). I don't know what anyone else thinks but, in my book, that's an impressive response time by anyone's standards!

With regards to posting questions on this forum, we're not on here every day, so can only answer when we see them. The fastest way to get a response is to contact the company direct.

Its not just with KA its with K, X . Its basically all bands. The whole purpose of city mute is that the mirror is supposed to just warn you with audible notice and then stay quiet until the signal is lost. Not beep all the way through. Thats my understanding.City Mute is not working on my unit....... This problem happened after I resently upgraded the software. Hopefully its just a setting or maybe a software problem.

Your understanding is correct. City Mute ON = Voice alerts only plus confirmation chirp when your detector finishes an alert. City Mute OFF = Voice plus tone alerts (plus confirmation chirp)

CIPS is right, KA band is excluded from City Mute for your own protection.

I'll have the tech guys check out the City Mute feature for you tomorrow to see if there is an issue with the last software update and we'll come back to you on email.

I've just sent you a reply to your other question about LI integration in an email. (within an hour this time)

Seroiusly, welcome aboard as a cheetah customer and I'll come back to you on the City Mute thing.

[allyoops]

City Mute feature tested this morning and it's working exactly as normal.

[Jamminx]

I do appreciate the response. However, In all fairness response time allways seems to acclerate when something is posted questioning response times online. Either way I'm happy with the help. I've verified everthing including the adapter and V1 intergration is installed correctly. And yes the City mute works but I have to admit its not a great feature. For instance with K band ( i have x off) it beeps and says K band then double beeps and turns off then does it all over again for the same instance of K signal. The whole purpose of City mute should be to warn you once and the beep at the end not to continue to recycle the warning over and over again for the same instance. I parked in front of a wallmart andverified this without moving my car.

Second item is the LI integration. I don't think this is usefull at this point because all you are getting is sound through the mirror and even then just the one word " DIFFUSER" $130 for this feature is not worth it in my book. I don't care about voice detail same as The LI module but I would expect Sound warning (unique beeping) and then LAser Gun hit voice warning of some kind. Thats just my opinion. I do think that a wireless LI integration kit is worth it for those that havn't already installed the LI and are looking for a wireless install.

Thanks Again. I'll keep an eye out for a better LI integration solution.

[allyoops]

For instance with K band ( i have x off) it beeps and says K band then double beeps and turns off then does it all over again for the same instance of K signal. The whole purpose of City mute should be to warn you once and the beep at the end not to continue to recycle the warning over and over again for the same instance. I parked in front of a wallmart and verified this without moving my car.

For the vast majority of real world encounters City Mute works exactly as you think it should. You'll get the initial voice announcement, no alert tones then a final "end of alert" chirp to tell when your detector stops alerting.

What you're describing in the car park there happens occassionally, but it's caused by what your detector is doing. What's happening there is that the signal is so low that your V1 is picking it up as a low strength alert and then ending it's alert cycle. The it picks up the weak signal again as a new alert. The RDI is interpreting this and that's why you're seeing repeat alerts with the voice ID and end chirp.

I've only ever seen this once, in El Paso with an X50, but a couple others have reported it so I've asked the tech boffins to take a look at it.

Second item is the LI integration. I don't think this is usefull at this point because all you are getting is sound through the mirror and even then just the one word " DIFFUSER" $130 for this feature is not worth it in my book. I don't care about voice detail same as The LI module but I would expect Sound warning (unique beeping) and then LAser Gun hit voice warning of some kind. Thats just my opinion.

It's not just a one word alert. You'd get exactly what you say you want. The GPSmirror or C100 does what you describe there.

For a jammer alert, you get an initial "Diffuser" voice announcement, followed by a unique alert tone for jammer alerts, different to radar detection tones.

Parking sensor alerts are slightly different. It uses the same voice and tone alerts as real jamming, but there is a small delay intserted between each alert cycle so you can differentiate them from real jamming.

If you don't like the word "Diffuser" as a voice alert, you can change this in the menu system of the C100 / GPSmirror to say "Laser" instead. The only thing you'd not get is the LI voice alerts for Gun ID because these alerts are not encoded on our voice chip. That's it.