Starting to look and feel old?
01-14-2019, 08:53 PM
#21
AudiWorld Senior Member
I have ZERO hands-on experience with any other smartphone than the iPhone. However, based on certain factors, if you do have an iPhone and you do have a music library that you have sourced and amassed from iTunes, you can press the button on the steering wheel and say, "Siri play the Beatles" or "Play Here Comes the Sun, by the Beatles" and I do believe you can say "Play Abbey Road, by the Beatles."
Certain things have to be in place for all of these choices to happen, so I don't want you to think that if you try what I have said LITERALLY and it poops out and doesn't do it that it can't be done.
Example, you have a Movie Soundtrack "album" that you have acquired from iTunes, and on that soundtrack is "White Room" by Cream. Nowhere else in your music library do you have this song. As I recall, I ran into a situation where I KNEW I had a song by an artist and Siri recognized the artist as THE SOUNDTRACK's name. So, when I (in my made up example) said, "Siri, play White Room by Cream," she couldn't find it until I said "Siri play White Room by (or from) The Pursuit of D B Cooper." This kind of thing happens very rarely, but I use Siri (activated by pressing and holding the "to talk" button on the steering wheel until you hear the apple kerplunk tone) and l she is mostly (90%) able to play what I want (assuming my iPhone is plugged in or Bluetooth connected) by voice command/request.
I can do the above on both the S4 and the Q8. Also, I send and receive all my text messages via voice (using Siri) meaning completely hand and eyes free. I hear it works for emails, too, but I bet that would be a bitch to do.
Certain things have to be in place for all of these choices to happen, so I don't want you to think that if you try what I have said LITERALLY and it poops out and doesn't do it that it can't be done.
Example, you have a Movie Soundtrack "album" that you have acquired from iTunes, and on that soundtrack is "White Room" by Cream. Nowhere else in your music library do you have this song. As I recall, I ran into a situation where I KNEW I had a song by an artist and Siri recognized the artist as THE SOUNDTRACK's name. So, when I (in my made up example) said, "Siri, play White Room by Cream," she couldn't find it until I said "Siri play White Room by (or from) The Pursuit of D B Cooper." This kind of thing happens very rarely, but I use Siri (activated by pressing and holding the "to talk" button on the steering wheel until you hear the apple kerplunk tone) and l she is mostly (90%) able to play what I want (assuming my iPhone is plugged in or Bluetooth connected) by voice command/request.
I can do the above on both the S4 and the Q8. Also, I send and receive all my text messages via voice (using Siri) meaning completely hand and eyes free. I hear it works for emails, too, but I bet that would be a bitch to do.
01-15-2019, 11:27 AM
#22
AudiWorld Junior Member
Oh and for anyone who says, "just use the voice controls," still not the best solution, and really awkward to use, especially when there's company in the car.
Last edited by Joshua Stein; 01-15-2019 at 11:29 AM.
01-15-2019, 12:29 PM
#23
I have ZERO hands-on experience with any other smartphone than the iPhone. However, based on certain factors, if you do have an iPhone and you do have a music library that you have sourced and amassed from iTunes, you can press the button on the steering wheel and say, "Siri play the Beatles" or "Play Here Comes the Sun, by the Beatles" and I do believe you can say "Play Abbey Road, by the Beatles."
01-15-2019, 02:16 PM
#24
The new SE interface allows 8 garage doors to be programmed. When you pull into your driveway your screen (based on GPS) knows you're home and if you want, you can either press the "glass" or press the "*" button on the steering wheel.
I prefer the ceiling buttons. But, at least for now, I don't drive the Q8 every day. I still get to press the Garage Opener button overhead.
I prefer the ceiling buttons. But, at least for now, I don't drive the Q8 every day. I still get to press the Garage Opener button overhead.
Setting my home location manually fixes that problem. However, everyone who relies on Google maps, and nearly all other GPS systems, also get the wrong location.
Getting deliveries has been quite interesting since all delivery services use GPS, and they miss my house and go down the street only to discover that their GPS is telling them that they "have arrived" at their destination only to find empty land with lush grasses growing.
No, my house isn't invisible, it's back that way about 1 block, just don't use your GPS, use actual home-street numbers displayed on the front of the house, the telephone pole in the front yard, and the mailbox.
For me, I prefer a regular button to activate my garage door, that is NOT linked to GPS.
Artificial intelligence is still artificial, and it can be as faulty as the genuine thing.
01-15-2019, 02:17 PM
#25
The new SE interface allows 8 garage doors to be programmed. When you pull into your driveway your screen (based on GPS) knows you're home and if you want, you can either press the "glass" or press the "*" button on the steering wheel.
I prefer the ceiling buttons. But, at least for now, I don't drive the Q8 every day. I still get to press the Garage Opener button overhead.
I prefer the ceiling buttons. But, at least for now, I don't drive the Q8 every day. I still get to press the Garage Opener button overhead.
Setting my home location manually fixes that problem. However, everyone who relies on Google maps, and nearly all other GPS systems, also get the wrong location.
Getting deliveries has been quite interesting since all delivery services use GPS, and they miss my house and go down the street only to discover that their GPS is telling them that they "have arrived" at their destination only to find empty land with lush grasses growing.
No, my house isn't invisible, it's back that way about 1 block, just don't use your GPS, use actual home-street numbers displayed on the front of the house, the telephone pole in the front yard, and the mailbox.
For me, I prefer a regular button to activate my garage door, that is NOT linked to GPS.
Artificial intelligence is still artificial, and it can be as realistically faulty as the genuine thing.
01-15-2019, 02:58 PM
#26
AudiWorld Super User
Thread Starter
The GPS activates where you set it. So if you want it to activate a block away, it will do so. If you want it to activate 10 feet in front of the garage door, so be it.
I like the pushbutton personally (the S4 seems very easy and natural.) Now, if the gdopener was voice activated, well THAT would be something (Alexa open the door!)
I like the pushbutton personally (the S4 seems very easy and natural.) Now, if the gdopener was voice activated, well THAT would be something (Alexa open the door!)
01-15-2019, 03:37 PM
#27
The GPS activates where you set it. So if you want it to activate a block away, it will do so. If you want it to activate 10 feet in front of the garage door, so be it.
I like the pushbutton personally (the S4 seems very easy and natural.) Now, if the gdopener was voice activated, well THAT would be something (Alexa open the door!)
I like the pushbutton personally (the S4 seems very easy and natural.) Now, if the gdopener was voice activated, well THAT would be something (Alexa open the door!)
My overall comment is about using only default GPS, such as Google maps.
Using my Garmin GPS, with it's default finder, my house is shown as being a block away.
Thus, when people who don't know where my house is exactly, can't find it using GPS. I can set my home location in the Garmin manually so that it knows.
The issue exists for other addresses as well as some locations coordinates are listed incorrectly, so when a GPS seeks that address it uses errant coordinates.
Even when using Google Earth, my house is shown to be on an empty lot.
To fix it I was told to contact Google to get the correct coordinates into their system.
Last edited by TT-S4; 01-15-2019 at 03:40 PM.
01-15-2019, 06:28 PM
#28
The GPS activates where you set it. So if you want it to activate a block away, it will do so. If you want it to activate 10 feet in front of the garage door, so be it.
I like the pushbutton personally (the S4 seems very easy and natural.) Now, if the gdopener was voice activated, well THAT would be something (Alexa open the door!)
I like the pushbutton personally (the S4 seems very easy and natural.) Now, if the gdopener was voice activated, well THAT would be something (Alexa open the door!)
01-16-2019, 08:30 AM
#29
Like "face" recognition, but for one's personal garage.
01-16-2019, 08:32 AM
#30
The GPS activates where you set it. So if you want it to activate a block away, it will do so. If you want it to activate 10 feet in front of the garage door, so be it.
I like the pushbutton personally (the S4 seems very easy and natural.) Now, if the gdopener was voice activated, well THAT would be something (Alexa open the door!)
I like the pushbutton personally (the S4 seems very easy and natural.) Now, if the gdopener was voice activated, well THAT would be something (Alexa open the door!)
That seems a good and sound idea that could be implemented into Audi's voice recognition system.