For those who don‘t have a BMW, I use the Chigee remote and works well. Just in case you are watching it and thought about options. Remote is not super user intuitive but works. You can have your fingers of course in the end, but just saying. PS. Would not trade in the Chigee anymore. Love it and compared to other devices, its a solid solution and worth the money.
Tried the chigee for 5 weeks on my trip through italy and the balkan. The last week in Granada Spain. Works flawless with android auto. I did use google maps and tomtom ride. Only one thing, dont put your telephone in a tankbag with 35 degrees in the sun. It overheats and stops functioning. The chigee had no problem at all with these temperatures.
Good Evening, so my Chigee Play for BMW has turned up after backing on kickstarter and connect via the Nav cradle which it brilliant for just unclipping when the bikes left over night. Previously Ive used the Garmin XT and the only way I could get everything to play nice with the intercom was to have the phone paired to the bike and the Cardo headset paired to the bike and the XT not paired to anything. I popped the Chigee into the nav cradle and when the phone rang it showed on the bike TFT and the Chigee screen and it mean't the bmw connected ride app worked recording lean angle and the like but you couldnt hear the Chigee voice direction and 'Hey Siri' wouldnt work. I've watched a video where they have said unpair everything from the bike and just connect to the Chigee but then if the phone rings it doesnt show on the bike just the Chigee. With your phone connected to the bike and the Chigee and the headset do you get directions and have the luxury of having the BMW connected ride app working with the bike? P.S the mrs is also connected through via intercom to my helmet which when using the XT would cut direction whenever i was trying for directions before the whole thing would through a wobbly. Thanks Jay
I’m really interested in the chigee running mra app, is it really true that the CarPlay functionality doesn’t show the adjustable waypoints icoon on the top and skipping and reroute to earlier waypoints needs to be done on the phone?
I find that sometimes making a telephone call can be problematic because of signal dropping, so tend to let the wife know where I am using What’s App or a text that I can send using my iphone11 SC2 headset with Siri. The problem being I can’t read or hear any reply, Siri won’t voice the reply without the phone being unlocked. Can text/Whats App replies be read on the go?
How does the phone battery cope using carplay?? Any issues with the siri indicator button? Does the indicator button only work when the tft is on Nav? Or both? Cheers
On the long ride from Land End to John O Groats, using the phone for nav, I had to top it up after approx 8 hrs but it was still on 43%, so no detrimental impact on battery life. The indicator button works once the bike is switched on as it connects to the bike via the RCA connector under the rear pillion seat. Cheers
Does it matter how you position your phone when u use it for navigation? My thought was that it uses the phone for navigation (screen mirroring) but when i store it under the sadle to charge it i can’t place the phone straight in my driving position (diagonal and upright, because the place under the sadle is to small to place it just pointing forward). My “normal’. Bmw navigator is just upright and i want to make sure the route is displayed in the correct way.
Why are all reviewers not testing Chigee with Android Auto? Is it because Chigee does NOT support Voice Control via Bluetooth Headset yet? (Chigee says they are working on it...)
Thank you for the well done review ♥♥♥ - do you experianced a problem when your phone has lost the LTE connection?
For those who don‘t have a BMW, I use the Chigee remote and works well. Just in case you are watching it and thought about options. Remote is not super user intuitive but works. You can have your fingers of course in the end, but just saying. PS. Would not trade in the Chigee anymore. Love it and compared to other devices, its a solid solution and worth the money.
Thanks indeed for your thoughts of us poor non-BMW folks😅😅
Tried the chigee for 5 weeks on my trip through italy and the balkan. The last week in Granada Spain. Works flawless with android auto. I did use google maps and tomtom ride. Only one thing, dont put your telephone in a tankbag with 35 degrees in the sun. It overheats and stops functioning. The chigee had no problem at all with these temperatures.
How to do increase the font size on the screen, the street names are so small, just impossible to read.
I'm assuming that the speed on the chigee was in kph hence the difference between the bikes speedo and the unit 😊
Good Evening, so my Chigee Play for BMW has turned up after backing on kickstarter and connect via the Nav cradle which it brilliant for just unclipping when the bikes left over night. Previously Ive used the Garmin XT and the only way I could get everything to play nice with the intercom was to have the phone paired to the bike and the Cardo headset paired to the bike and the XT not paired to anything. I popped the Chigee into the nav cradle and when the phone rang it showed on the bike TFT and the Chigee screen and it mean't the bmw connected ride app worked recording lean angle and the like but you couldnt hear the Chigee voice direction and 'Hey Siri' wouldnt work. I've watched a video where they have said unpair everything from the bike and just connect to the Chigee but then if the phone rings it doesnt show on the bike just the Chigee. With your phone connected to the bike and the Chigee and the headset do you get directions and have the luxury of having the BMW connected ride app working with the bike? P.S the mrs is also connected through via intercom to my helmet which when using the XT would cut direction whenever i was trying for directions before the whole thing would through a wobbly. Thanks Jay
I’m really interested in the chigee running mra app, is it really true that the CarPlay functionality doesn’t show the adjustable waypoints icoon on the top and skipping and reroute to earlier waypoints needs to be done on the phone?
I find that sometimes making a telephone call can be problematic because of signal dropping, so tend to let the wife know where I am using What’s App or a text that I can send using my iphone11 SC2 headset with Siri. The problem being I can’t read or hear any reply, Siri won’t voice the reply without the phone being unlocked. Can text/Whats App replies be read on the go?
Great vid! But discount code does not work :(
How does the phone battery cope using carplay?? Any issues with the siri indicator button? Does the indicator button only work when the tft is on Nav? Or both? Cheers
On the long ride from Land End to John O Groats, using the phone for nav, I had to top it up after approx 8 hrs but it was still on 43%, so no detrimental impact on battery life. The indicator button works once the bike is switched on as it connects to the bike via the RCA connector under the rear pillion seat. Cheers
Does it matter how you position your phone when u use it for navigation? My thought was that it uses the phone for navigation (screen mirroring) but when i store it under the sadle to charge it i can’t place the phone straight in my driving position (diagonal and upright, because the place under the sadle is to small to place it just pointing forward). My “normal’. Bmw navigator is just upright and i want to make sure the route is displayed in the correct way.
It doesn’t.
Why are all reviewers not testing Chigee with Android Auto? Is it because Chigee does NOT support Voice Control via Bluetooth Headset yet? (Chigee says they are working on it...)
Probably because Android sucks. LOL
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I had no idea the voice control didn't work with android auto because it works perfect on iOS
@@kerrylebel4285 Hmm, I guess that's why Android has a 70% share of cell phones worldwide and Apple only has 30%! Ooops!
Not as hard as CrApple