Hi guys my name is Nick O'Leary and today we are going to look at
another tips and tricks video but we're going to focus this on the MBUX system.
Now MBUX stands for Mercedes-Benz User Experience which is the latest Mercedes-Benz infotainment
system and what I thought we'd do is go through some tips and tricks on just that.
Now some of these you may already know
but some of these are also some of my favourites and hidden ones you might not know about.
Let's dive straight in!
Right guys as I always say at the start of my videos just want to double check the specification
of your Mercedes-Benz some of the things I might refer to today might not be on your car. So just
do bear that in mind. I'll leave a few comments in the description down below outlining which
cars do have MBUX a nice easy way of telling if you do have MBUX is the voice assistant called
"Hey Mercedes!" where you can talk to the car. If you have that then you know you've got MBUX.
Let's go through the 15 tips and tricks! Right then guys so tip and trick number one.
Now I thought it might be best to start with profiles on the MBUX system so profiles basically
if you imagine like a Windows computer or a Mac or something like that. You probably have your
own login with your own password. It is kind of similar on this where you basically have
different logins and you have all of your own settings the way you want them on each profile but
of course there's no password. So I have a profile here at the moment and it will basically save
all of my settings the way I like them so say I ended up changing a few icons around
or changing the theme, displays, ambient light, radio stations etc.
All of those things are saved on my specific profile and say another person came along they
can create their own profile and have their own settings you can do this for up to seven people.
To create a profile it's really easy you basically just go to the home screen so
on mbux there's a little picture of the house in the top right hand corner
of the left screen just go here and then next to it will be a picture of a person
and potentially even your name if you've already programmed in one profile just tap on that one
and then you'll be able to create the profiles here and set them up the way you'd like them up.
Next is dual phone capability the ability to connect two
phones to the car system itself. Now the way this works is you connect them via Bluetooth on the
phone screen which is on the main home screen just tap phone and you may notice at the top there's
"Phone 1" & then next to it there's "Phone 2" so you can connect both up to take incoming calls
pretty much at the same time so if either phone rings once they're both connected you answer and
hang up on the steering wheel for either phone! And if you want to phone out you simply select
phone one or phone two and then select the phone book so it's quite clever! Say you drove the car
on your own and you had a personal phone and maybe a work phone you can connect two together without
having to switch between the two to take an incoming call basically so pretty clever!
Next up guys is the volume button which is just located here
and just down there in the middle now of course you can swipe this up and down to control the
volume button as we all know...But did you know it's also a button as well?
So if you press the button in you'll actually mute! So it saves you having to keep swiping
down like this to turn the volume down simply just press the button in and it will mute it
and also while we're on that topic if the Sat Nav's talking to you and you don't want her
talking for that journey just press the mute button as she's talking and it'll mute her!
Next up guys is the radio text information so normally when you're on a radio station
it will look a bit like this. But did you know that you can also bring up the name of the song
that's playing as long as the radio station is transmitting it. So to do this quite simply go
to settings on the bottom right, then go to general and you'll find an option here called
"Radio Text Information" just click Ok on that one and now you'll find that the radio text
of the name of the song it's playing will show just beneath the radio station name.
My next Tip &Trick is reordering the home screen so say for example that you always go
to media which is just located over here and you Bluetooth the music from your phone to the car.
If you go back to the home screen you can actually put your finger onto the screen and hold
and move these icons around and put them in any order that you fancy.
So maybe you wanted phone then media and then maybe you want radio just to the left of that.
You can personalise the home screen exactly the way you'd like it.
Next up we've got changing the Theme on MBUX so to do this you can basically just navigate
on the left screen all the way to a thing called "Settings" and then in here you'll want to go to
"System" on the far right hand side and then go to "Styles & Display".
In here you will have one two or maybe even three options to change. In this
particular car there are three themes so you have:
"Classic", "Sport" & "Progressive".
"Classic" is what you see here with the kind of turquoise blue theme,
going to "Sport" you then have kind of a bit of dark green with yellow and red. And
"Progressive" goes all digital with a bit of blue and slight bit of orange in the theme as well.
And while we're on the topic of changing the themes you can
also change the content of the instrument cluster.
The instrument cluster is the one that's behind the steering wheel
and you can change on cars with the big screen the left hand side the centre
and the right hand side and to do this you'll be using the steering wheel here.
So you just swipe this one left and right to view each part of the dashboard and say
i want to change the left side i'm just going to move the cursor over to the left hand side
just by swiping and now swipe up and down and you can view different things on this dial.
Say I wanted to have my music playing on the left there
if I swipe that to the right i can now change the middle part
so I can change this and put the speed nice and big in the middle and then if i go to the right
you can then view and change things over here so let's have maybe the sat nav over there.
So you can change this as well as the themes to really personalize
and choose what you want behind the wheel.
Next up we've got Mercedes me now all new Mercedes-Benz over the past
few years do have Mercedes me but it's extremely important that it's linked to
your Mercedes me ID (Mercedes me account). This enables your Live Traffic to work and
of course get Map Updates and it does do some extra things via an app as well
but it's not free on every car so it's best again to check the specification of this.
I have actually already made a video on Mercedes me so if you click on the pop-up banner it will
take you straight to that video and it'll show you exactly what Mercedes me does.
And while we're on the topic of Mercedes me you can also get the car to send
internet to a device so things like maybe a phone or a tablet or something on a road trip.
It's mainly used for road trips or potentially with friends or family while you're driving.
The car can send internet to their device I have actually made a video on how this works
already so if you click on the pop-up banner up above it will show you exactly how that works.
My next tip & trick is extremely useful if you have small children in the car and they might
just catch on to the fact that the car has a voice assistant in the car called "Hey Mercedes!"
Car Voice: How may I help you?
Now if you're trying to drive that might be quite annoying when they keep on saying the
the "M Word" so what you can do is navigate all the way to "Settings" on the far right hand side.
Go to "System" then go to "Linguatronic".
In here you can switch off the activation of the phrase so if I switch this off I can now say:
"Hi Mercedes!" or "Hey Mercedes!"
And nothing will come up in the car but don't worry the feature's not completely switched off.
Say you're driving down the road and you have the sat nav on
and you still want to use that feature without saying the word because you've switched it off.
On the left side of the steering wheel there's a picture of a voice just nudge this up
and you'll get the same functionality as you had before.
Now one of the most useful Tips & Tricks is adjusting the parking sensor volume
and pitch you can also adjust when it beeps at you.
So to do this go all the way to "Settings" on the far right hand side
then go to a menu called "Assistance" usually the second one along at the very very top here.
In here you can go to "Camera & Parking"
and just scrolling down a tiny bit you can change the volume of the sensors.
Car: Beeping
You can adjust these all the way up to +5 just in case you need to make them a little bit louder.
Car: Beeping
On top of this as well you can also change the pitch.
Car: Lower Beeping
Another feature that I'd strongly recommend is a thing called:
"Warn early all round"
And it does exactly what it says.
Normally by default the system is off and what this does is when you get near an object the
sensors will start beeping literally last second probably about this far away from an object.
If you have this enabled it will actually be a few meters further
back from that so it gives you a bit more notice.
My next Tip & Trick actually relates to the Sat Nav
so let's say that you are navigating in a city that you don't know. On the left
hand side there's actually a picture of a "P" which indicates car par.
If you press this it will actually show you all the car parks nearby and rather cleverly
as well it will even show you arrows on the left pointing in which direction they are.
Simply select one and it will show you where it is on the map.
On top of this as well if you happen to be on reserve fuel you can also find a picture
of a fuel pump over here and you can select this and it'll show you all the nearby fuel stations.
Next up we've got a thing called "Commuter Route" now what this does is
automatically enable the sat nav silently in the background
showing you all the nearby traffic and the best route to take to get to work.
Now this happens automatically if you've enabled this feature but it does require you to have your
home and workplaces set up in the sat nav as well as logged into your own profile.
To enable "Commuter Route" simply go to "Navigation" then go across to Settings.
And then go down to "Advanced", in here you'll be looking for a thing called
"Route" and then scroll all the way to the bottom and you'll see "Activate Commuter Route".
Once this is enabled simply just make sure you've got your home and work places set up
in the sat nav and saved as your favourites. Every day when you go to work the sat nav
will automatically start and show you the arrival time and the best way to get to work
but the best thing about this is that it doesn't enable the voice when it's
on this mode so it simply shows you the route in the background without the sat nav talking.
For this next Tip & Trick you'll need a thing called "Augmented Reality" and what Augmented
Reality does is basically show you a live camera feed of the road ahead in front of you
on the screen and when you get to a turning on your sat nav it will actually render a blue
arrow on the live camera feed showing you exactly where to go.
It's quite clever but there is a Tip & Trick for the people who have that feature.
Now you'll find sometimes when you go to some traffic lights that they're not in the most
visible position and sometimes you have to stretch to try and see them.
So what you can do if you have Augmented Reality is enable the camera to come on automatically
when you get near some traffic lights.
To do this simply go to Settings then go to "Advanced" and you'll be looking
for a menu called "Augmented Reality". In here you can enable the traffic light view
so if you enable "Automatic", this will then show you the traffic light view on the screen
itself so you don't have to stretch looking for that awkward view of the traffic light.
And my final Tip & Trick today guys is a hidden feature found
on the Cruise Control and Speed Limiter on all new Mercedes-Benz.
This applies to all new Mercedes-Benz that have the Cruise Control and Speed Limiter
on the right hand side of the steering wheel.
And for those of you that don't know on these three buttons from left to right.
The left hand side does the cruise control and limiter so you select what you want first,
the middle one that says set enables you to turn that feature on after you've chosen
what you want and the right time one is resume and cancel depending if you nudge up or down.
But there is a hidden feature on here if you look really closely at the far right hand button it
says "RES" for Resume but then it says forward slash and it looks like it's a picture of a
traffic sign and what this does is when you have Traffic Sign Assist enabled on the car and you
have your Sat Nav showing you a speed limit on the screens. When you've driven past that speed limit
and you press up twice it will actually put the cruise control or limiter to the
speed limit that the car has detected on the road. So what this symbol over here refers to
is basically cruise control or limiter for the speed limit on the road so you can actually get
it to copy from the car itself to the cruise control or limiter very very very clever!
And there we go guys that concludes today's video on MBUX Tips & Tricks
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