Haha yeah she does have some funny commands!

There are some nice replies if you compliment her!

I’m also Scottish and would agree with this - it is definitely a bit hit and miss so I don’t bother with it. I’m not that keen on talking to a car anyway and would never do it if there was someone else in the car as it just sounds daft - probably an age thing though.

It doesn’t speak Geordie either

Why am I reading your comment in a Scottish accent 😂

No one else can understand your accent either. Why should your car be different? 🤣😳

Plonker

That’s cool! 😎

Yup that’s a good one!

Start dashcam recording is a direct command by the way. I hate that it's not automatic in the UK >_>

@JealY666 yeah I wish it was automatic too

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🤓

Thank you! 🙏

Thank you! Means they listen to us if we say please 😜

Thank you! 🙏 🤓

Thank you! 🙏 🤓 glad you enjoy them!

Thank you! 🙏

No worries thank you for watching! 😎

​@@npolearyquiz time😂 what is the capital of Norway?

Oslo 🥇

@@npoleary Nice, you aren't that bad at geography after all👍

Awesome! How are you finding it?

I got my EQB 300 last Wednesday so, I’ve been eating them up. For one, I was searching for where to pre condition my battery before driving and finally found it on this channel. I would have never guessed it was part of the cabin pre-temp.

Awh thank you! Glad you enjoy them! That sounds good, I’ve got a few videos that I’ve filmed at my local dealer and the surrounding area! I can try and answer any questions but if you needed actual demos, Mercedes staff have people called Star Experts who can help show too! But message me if you have a questions and if I can help I’ll get back to you 🤓 With MBUX & CarPlay, they are completely separate systems so ideally you should try and stick to one or the other but…you can swap between them easily. The reason I say this is because you’ll find sometimes CarPlay will steal the focus away from what you’re doing, so for example if you have the MBUX Sat Nav on, and you get a text message you’ll lose the map screen because it’s gone into CarPlay. So it’s best to use one or the other. (If that makes sense)

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching! 🙏🤓

Yes they are very useful for things like that! 🙏🤓

Awh thank you! Glad you found it useful! Yeah I didn’t realise about the intermediate destination either until this video! And the Geo Quiz! Haha 🤓 And yeah it was the GLB 🙏 very practical car!

Yeah you were! I literally had no idea! 😜

Let me know your favourite!

Haha 😅

Thanks! ☺️

No worries! 🤓

Thank you! Not looked at that specially as I use CarPlay in my car but all audio controls are often in HOME SETTINGS SYSTEM AUDIO And there’s loads of features in there to adjust. Also look in HOME PHONE SETTINGS icon And in there too. You could also try adjusting the volume when you get that notification although I do appreciate it’ll probably be very quick!

Thank you! You can check in the app so if there’s a software update coming then you’ll see it listed in there.

Thank you! You can but I’d always recommend to try and use one or the other or you may have some weird pop ups for example. If you’re using the in built Sat nav but get a text message through while using CarPlay you will lose the map. And will have to press buttons to get back to it, not fun if you’re in a group text and navigating round a city at the same time. You can use both but ideally for the best experience it’s best to just stick to one or the other.

Yup! 👍🏼

That’s cool! Sadly no rear blinds in my A-Class 😅

Thank you! Glad you enjoy them! I would say try something like, Hey Mercedes, navigate to nearest charger or show me a list of charging station nearby and that should work. What model of Mercedes do you have out of curiosity?

Thanks for your suggestion. I will try tomorrow when use the car again. I have a GLA 250e. Any other suggestion will be accept.

Yep! That’s a good one! (If you have it though!)

@@npoleary After a disastrous trip wrestling with the old NTG system on W213 getting in a loop with Android Auto/Waze + Media player. I've decided to explore voice commands more, this has resulted in a long piece of paper dangling from the dashboard :-)

You can on some Mercedes, I think from memory it’s E-Class and S-Class where you can do it. There’s like an L button for “left”

Thank you! Have you left your windows or sunroof open at all?

@@npoleary No not at all and the windows always appear closed when I check. I think the windows adjust very slightly to prevent condensation when it detects rain…maybe? I have the A class saloon AMG

Try putting all the windows down and back up and see if it recalibrates. No if it rains they may close but if they’re already closed it shouldn’t change.

Thank you so much! ☺️ 🙏🙏

I have smartthings and I cannot get the voice command to do things, even though I know it is linked.

Haha sorry! Yeah I’ll check them out! 👀 Curious to see what the other things do

It depends on the cable, sadly not all cables work with CarPlay. It has to be one that carries data along it, some only charge. Most of the time it’s the Apple certified ones that work best.

@@npoleary Thank you Nick - appreciate your quick reply - Regards

No worries! 🤓

Thanks Wayne, MBUX NTG 7 (most models without a touchpad) sadly don’t do that via voice. It has recommendations that can appear at the bottom of what you mentioned. I’ve covered it on a few videos on Mercedes models that have Zero Layer which I’m sure are models that have the vertical screen in the middle.

Thanks, Nick. That's good to know. Thanks for the reply.😀

@waynejohn8 no worries!

I’ve heard of this for years but never seen anything since. There was talk of it last year but nothing happened. Although I will add that some cars have a speed alert warning where it’ll beep if you go over the speed limit, I’m sure I’ll do a video on that! Cars that have that feature can turn it off top right with one tap on a Mercedes, so very easy. Actually restricting speed, haven’t seen or heard of that yet.

​@@npoleary There was an article in the Daily Telegraph on 28th April which explicitly stated that all cars sold from 6 July must have this technology installed: "From July 6, new vehicles sold in the European Union and Northern Ireland will be fitted with intelligent speed assistance (ISA) to prevent accidents. Although the UK has opted out, meaning it will not be a requirement on British roads, the technology will still be installed in most cars, and drivers can choose to switch it off on a daily basis. Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, an independent research organisation, told the Sunday Times: “I think many motorists will tire of switching off ISA and they will just learn to live with it.” Mr Gooding said it would take autonomy away from drivers, with cars increasingly deciding what drivers can and can’t do, and said it was the beginning of the end of people choosing cars based on top speed. ISA has a forward-facing camera that can recognise speed limit signs and is integrated with GPS mapping data so the car always knows what limit applies to its location." No-one has contradicted this but with your Mercedes connection I assume you can easily check if this is correct. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/28/cars-to-obey-speed-limits-automatically/

Here’s my take, I get that all of these safety systems in cars are great however there becomes a barrier when things get in the way. As driving autonomy gets better over time and the end result, we can all jump into a car and it takes us somewhere (that sounds awesome!), in the meantime there’s driving assistance tech and each manufacturer does it differently. Speed limiters, lane assist to name a few…I feel if this is introduced the tech that exists in ALL cars today can as you said get the speed wrong. And it will. Suddenly we’ll be beeping the person in front because they’re doing 20mph in a 40mph zone and as we pass them, the person is slightly older and doesn’t know how to override what the car thought is the lower speed for the road aaaand it’s not their fault. I’ll monitor it and if anything comes out, they’ll be a video 😜

​@npoleary Thanks Nick, look forward to it. But less of the "slightly older", I'm 75 and still teaching the 'kids' how to use real computers! 😂

Well I would have gone for a CLA (that was on my shortlist) but went with A-Class to save money. However as I have a dog the GLA would be ideal right now!

Haha very true! Yep you can do that too!

Oh really there was a weather radar? That sounds cool! I’ve not seen that on any Mercedes since producing videos on them (roughly since 2020). Sadly I’ve got limited coverage on anything prior to that.

Ah very nice! 👌🏼 You’ll have to check the car, sadly I wouldn’t know what the specification was of the car when it was made. Depends if whoever bought it new chose it. Mercedes have Premium packages and premium plus packages so if it has one of those then most likely 🤓

@@npoleary hopefully so, but I don’t mind, i can’t wait to get rid of my Toyota aygo 😭(my first car)

Ah nice! Big upgrade for the win! 🥇 Got a road trip planned?

@@npoleary going to visit my sister down south which is ~200 miles, but it’s gonna be a long 10 days until I pick it up 🙃

Hi Nick, picked it up today today 🎉. Unfortunately the old Mercedes me user is logged in and I’ve gathered I need to go to a Mercedes dealership (with proof of purchase and ID) to get this changed, do you know if they’ll charge and if so how much. (UK based).

Haha maybe one day! Glad you enjoyed the video!

Thank you! Oh how strange, I’ve not experienced that myself on my own car. Have they tried updating the multimedia system itself? I’d suggest taking it back as that really doesn’t sound quite right. If you selected avoid toll roads, it should remember it and likewise if you unselect it, it should also remember that too.

It depends on the multimedia system, sadly I have limited videos on cars prior to 2020 (I started my channel then) I’m pretty sure though that Mercedes introduced MBUX (the one with Hey Mercedes) on the E-Class in 2021. The previous one would have COMAND (if it was selected) so you’ll want this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fpeRodioq8yug6c.html

Ah I see, hold your foot on the brake while you do this at all times as doing the below will cause the vehicle to roll so make sure you have a helping hand. Ignition on (with all the lights) Foot on brake Move gearstick into Neutral Manually take the parking brake off To put the gearstick in Neutral, move the gearstick slightly (not all the way) or try holding slightly and it’ll go to neutral

Awesome! ☺️ Sounds very nice! 👌🏼

Someone else asked about this but I don’t have it on my car, but have a look in Home Navi Where to? Settings icon Messages & Tones I’ve got everything off on that page

@@npoleary I was one who asked in the other video as well....😅 The 2024 A Class Limousine (A200) has this feature, at least here in India......Anyways thanks. I am checking with Mercedes showroom. Recently Mercedes updated MBUX to allow disabling the Collision Avoidance completely (earlier, it used to be set back to medium on car re-start). So I am hoping there might be some updates to turn off these notifications.......let's see what I get from them.

Sadly you probably won’t be able to do that as cars usually have good connectivity to 1st party apps, so things like: Phone Text messages Music (the default one) But for 3rd party apps, there would be no way for the car natively to do this. However after Googling Android Auto does offer Microsoft teams apps. So you’d need to connect your phone via Android Auto if your car can do it, then you’ll be able to control it. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-february-2024/ba-p/4067761%23:~:text%3DMicrosoft%2520Teams%2520now%2520supports%2520Android%2520Auto%252C%2520an%2520app%2520that%2520allows,calls%2520while%2520in%2520your%2520car.&ved=2ahUKEwj72pK5p_2FAxU5WkEAHWP2ADwQFnoECBMQAw&usg=AOvVaw3DSIpjA1hXhtzrk8r2m-Ym

@@npoleary many thanks as always

No there isn’t, as far as I’ve seen But a few people in the comments section have mentioned that you can. So I’m guessing it might vary in different countries round the world? It’s never worked for me on a Mercedes :(

@@npoleary did wondered, thank you.

Sadly it depends on the mp3 player, not all of them are compatible with cars in general so it’s literally just a case of trying them. 99% of phones with a touchscreen will work just fine but for anything else it can be hit or miss.

No sadly haven’t seen a way of reorganising them Might do an updated video on it!

It would be great to do an update. I have the new face-lift GLE53 AMG. I've noticed that in the Vehicle Settings option in the Mercedes Me app, it only allows you to change the "AUTOMATIC FOLD-IN MIRROWS." There used to be a number of change options you could customize. Do you know why this has changed?

No sadly not, I’ve not had any correspondence from them to say why it’s changed. It’s the same on mine.

Nope! Haha 😛 I’m trialing something for a short while (Might be a couple of videos each week for a few weeks just to see how they perform) It sure does, yes you can rename it although another thing to note 😜 you’ll have re-pair the device again if you’ve already paired it up with the old name. Ooo nice! 👌🏼

Sorry really wish I could help but sadly Mercedes don’t have any garage opener tech here in the UK :( so not sure how it works!

“Rear window demister” maybe? I think it might work you might have to try it! Or “Heated Rear Window on”

What car do you drive at the mo? What’s your daily? 😎

No sadly not that I’ve seen. I’ve not seen any commands that do any function on the steering wheel on Mercedes

Ah cool that’s interesting, wonder if that works in the UK? Are you based in the UK?

@@npoleary Yes Nick, works on sun roof and sunroof blind as well.

@victorkasina4457 they must have changed that as you have never been able to do that before I’ll have to check it out somewhen when I next visit a dealer!

No sadly not, also I’m not sure what cars it’s compatible with. I tried to go to CES in January at launch but had problems with my flight at the airport so wasn’t able to get there and check it out. Not even sure what countries it’s compatible with…I would assume everywhere and EV’s that have Burmester and most likely models with the vertical screen in the middle but other than that I don’t know on that one. Haven’t seen it heard anything about that :(

@@npoleary Thanks Nick, All I know currently is it will be compitable with MBUX Gen II and is expected to be released Mid 24. possibly the MBUX 2.5 update.

Cool! That sounds good! 👍🏼

Bad points? Well there aren’t many, I’ve read a couple of comments about the rear camera popping out but I asked Mercedes this and it’s normal. It’s just the camera popping out to get the right exposure before showing the image. Things I would love to improve on my own car when compared to the competition, softer seats(they are comfy but others I’ve tested are softer), reduce the price (everything’s going up in cost) and it would be good to have a next track button and or the touchpad back in my car. I would like a faster car too but that’s on me for not buying a faster one 😂

Haha yeah she does have a couple of extra responses to that too I’ve heard before. You can ask it to check for a next service but I think that’s it, not sure on anything else. It’s connected to the Internet through Mercedes me so things could be added in the future!

Sorry, adding thoughts as I watch the video... For the climate control you can also just ask it to "make it warmer" or "make it colder". Also you can tell it "I'm cold" and it will raise the temp (and the opposite as well).

Back when I got my 1st MBUX equipped car (2019 A220 new in 2019) asking it to tell a joke wouldn't work, for the most part. The car would always respond with "I'm German, I don't know any jokes" or something to that effect.

Very true!

I haven’t tried the window on the latest models, I thought the only thing you could ask for “moving live objects” was the sunshade for the sunroof

Software updates are performed automatically I have noticed that MBUX will say there’s an update but it’ll download usually a week or two later so give it time. It’s probably to stop overloading their servers or something and updates being done in batches.

Thanks nick - love the videos by the way - i watched a bunch before i bought my CLA -

Ah awesome! Thank you! 🙏

Keep.good work up nick

Thank you! Well I do cover other brands so if you are in the market to change your car next time, I might a video on a car that you’re after 😊 Currently have made videos on Mercedes, BMW, VW, Volvo (coming soon and Tesla) and maybe more!

@@npoleary thankyou I've placed order for my 2025 kia sportage gts hev, I'm told will be a my25 ,red black leather interior ,delivery june 2024.

It's got all tech bells whistles, sportage is huge seller ,kia expected ted sell 50000 in 23 ,they sold 70000 sportage

Nice! 👌🏼 just need to plan a road trip now 😜

Possibly but you’ll have to get in touch with Mercedes and ask them. Some cars have over the air updates but unfortunately it’s not available round the whole world. Check with them and I’m sure they can let you know 🤓

Sure am! I found that out when I did the C-Class POV showroom pickup video when it came out! It’s just something that’s enabled by default, I think I remember reading you needed a profile too. Have you tried toggling it off and back on?

Yes tried that. It works when plugged in wired but not when on the wireless charging pad 🤷🏻‍♂️

Are you using CarPlay or Android Auto? Just wondering if that’s conflicting with it

@@npoleary Yes I use CarPlay wirelessly. I can try disabling it and give it another try.

No still the same. Baffled to be honest, why wired but not wireless?

Sadly you can’t, not seen an option to do that on Mercedes multimedia systems. If you use CarPlay or Android Auto, you can change the icon if you’re using the app called Waze

@@npoleary many thanks Nick

Yes although I believe Mercedes of course have different generations of MBUX they don’t really advertise the generations or versions in their cars. I’m fairly sure that C-Class has MBUX NTG 7 (also known as Gen 2) What I thought to believe was MBUX NTG 8 (gen 3) in the CLE and E-Class is actually a mini 7.5 kind of update for those specific cars. So I haven’t seen an “8” version yet.

If you change the language in system settings the MBUX voice assistant changes too! Not sure about accents though, I’ve heard it learns you overtime 🤓

@@npoleary --- I forgot about the language choices! I enjoy watching your videos and learn from them too. Do you have plans to, or have you already covered, the Mercedes night-vision system? I saw or read somewhere that some "driver mode" system will adapt to the most recent five minutes of driving, "learning" it. Software keep improving.

Mercedes did have a thing called night vision assist or something but that was on like an S-Class Maybach or similar. Not sure if they still have that tech, I thought it had been removed. But again this could vary round the world!

@@npoleary --- Cadillac, Mercedes, Lexus, Toyota. Active infrared v. passive heat detection. New S, E, and C class offer it. Also some earlier models. Cadillac pioneered it many years ago. I don't have the interest to research it. Not to give away too much money, but they haven't yet come up with a heads-up display to highlight edges of the road and pedestrians. To be truly good, imo, we do not need a camera image like a movie, we need outline guides, like white road lines right on the windshield, unobtrusively superimposed onto the visible road in matching perspective. With AI and graphics that is [easily?] possible. Current systems, including dash-cam-like portables, have the drawback of talking eyes off the road, and the portables have two major failings (imo): a) too bright, like watching TV while driving at night, and b) a single camera that has too small a field of vision, so it will not show anything at all of a 90 degree turn onto a less illuminated side street. I tried a portable. My impression after driving slowly around a neighborhood was simply that I did better without it, mainly because it emits too much light (disturbing the eyes), but also because the hardest parts of the road to see are the necessary turns and twists, as seen out the side windows, and the front-facing camera won't show those at all. For up-and-down roads they might offer a camera at the top of a retractable antenna mounted on the roof. For truly windy and narrow roads, forward-hearing sound detection might be very useful, to give a warning of unseeable approaching vehicles. For fauna, a scary sound warning beamed at them might help, to alert them of impending danger. Amber street lights give much clearer night vision because (I think) the wave length is not so "bright" and allows for eyes to adjust without contraction of the iris (i.e. pupils can dilate more in amber than in white - I speculate). But you do not see many amber-illuminated roads.

Sounds cool tech! I’m sure car manufacturers are working on something cool like this, we’ll have to wait and see what happens!

Oh yeah I remember that one I ejected Lewis Hamilton: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibZdf5qfuMu4p6c.html

Oh really? Mine on my app stated that it did that last summer. I’d suggest contacting Mercedes and ask them to take a look.

Yup! You can do that 🤓🙏

If you say Hey Mercedes and see wavey lines at the top of screen, this is the first gen MBUX. If you see sparkles or stars as shown in this video then these are the newer generations so will work if it’s available round the world in selected countries.

Got a video coming soon on my channel so keep an eye out! 👀 Members can see it early 🤓 It’s called MBUX Interior Assistant and is found on some Mercedes models

I did once…and never again…

There’s a menu to the right of it, just tap that and press delete. Or depending on the multimedia system, try holding your finger on the one you want to delete 🤓

Oh yeah don’t swear at her or she’ll get upset! 😅 Yes I’ve heard it does vary round the world. It always will sadly! Well if you don’t use the app that much then just cancel it and save some money. I don’t think I’ll renew mine at the end of my trial.

Lights on at home could be useful if you have a driveway where you need to drive up it and you have lights illuminating the way. To clarify my driveway is not that long 😅 Check your car is linked to your Mercedes me account and everything’s all switched on otherwise some functions won’t work.

Haha maybe! I often say please to mine!

Oh the vertical screen on the middle? I guess it’s the look Mercedes are going for on the inside at the moment. If you’re not a fan, we’ll have to see what they bring out next over the coming years! 🤓

@@npoleary Yeah that screen with no physical buttons like in my e450.

Not tried that one before!

Yup! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibZdf5qfuMu4p6c.htmlsi=tKxjOhxW_FgpwJ7R I ejected Lewis Hamilton once. My local dealer was like, are you sure you can do that? 😜

That would be cool! You can get info to appear on the screen but not seen any voice commands for that specifically

Pretty sure it’s something Hey Mercedes change ambient light to 50% or something similar. Head up display commands would be good but I don’t think those work on Hey Mercedes

@@npoleary Nope, I tried everything. "Change ambient lighting brightness to 50 percent" resulted in setting the maximum charge level to 50%, "Change Ambient lighting brightness to level 5" made it close the roller sun shade(!). "Increase Ambient Lighting Brightness" got "Unfortunately this vehicle does not have ambient lighting". I tried all sort of variants but I cannot find a command.

I stand corrected! I did say “think” in the video 😜 You can ask it to turn it off or on though or even say the specific number of ambient light as shown on the screen which I just found out a minute ago 🙏 (on my car anyway)