hey everybody it's the ionic guy again and behind me is my ionic 5 and it's a
beautiful day here in Connecticut and I figured let's do a video on the uh
Hyundai Blue Link app and see just what it's capable of so let's get right into it
so I'm using a pixel 6 on the latest version of Android and the Hyundai Blue Link app is the
latest update so everything's as fresh as can be so here in the app you can see right at the
top there's my ionic 5 SEL it says refreshed four minutes ago so there's a couple ways that you can
refresh this page unfortunately it just doesn't Auto refresh you can either click on the button
and it'll take a few seconds to get the vehicle status it says it can take upwards of one minute
so now you can see refreshed one minute ago the other thing you can do here is you can
pull down to refresh and that does the exact same thing I typically pull down I think it's
more intuitive than pressing the button
so now we have the latest information on the car we can see the doors are locked the battery
is at 70 percent and my estimated range is 180 miles now you can see I could start charging the
car by pressing that button but the car is not plugged in so I can't do that I'm in the middle
of my backyard so if I click Start charging now it'll probably give me an error message
start charge requested start charge request has been sent to vehicle not received because
your vehicle is unplugged so it's smart enough to know that the car is unplugged
so now we can check vehicle status by pressing the view vehicle status button and this is where
you're going to see a lot of the information about the car that you might be interested in like is
the car on is battery preconditioning going which isn't preconditioning for DC fast charging this is
just preconditioning in the morning before you get in the car and drive to work or whatever
hoods closed parking brakes engaged climate controls doors trunk so you can refresh it
from this page again you can't pull down to refresh here though but you can press the button
now there's also a full list which gives you some more information you
can see here it says smart key battery is working so no issues with the key fob
and from here we can view charge management which is something that
you're definitely going to be interested in
so under the charge management tab you have a few options here you can see your current
charge level you can start and stop charging you can find charging stations around you
so here you can activate some alerts so if you're charging at a public station or something and you
want to be able to have time to walk back to your car to unplug it to allow somebody else
to charge you can say tell me 10 20 30 minutes before my charge is finished to give me time to
get back to my car to unplug so that's kind of a Nifty feature I haven't used any public charging
stations at like restaurants or or venues or anything so it's not really needed for me on
a day-to-day basis but for people who public charge a lot that's a nice feature to have
and here you can set your charge level limits now I like that you can do this on the Fly because
say you're inside and you had it set to 100 from a road trip or something you took the day
prior and you remember oh I only want to charge 80 instead of going out to the car to do this you can
do it right from the app which is really Nifty and there's a couple options here if you don't want to
choose these yourself you can optimize for longer driving range which just sets AC and DC charge
limits to 100 percent or optimize for battery longevity so 80 is what's recommended there
now under scheduling at the top this is where you can get really creative
with how the car prepares for you on a daily basis so charge schedule a here you can set a
departure time so typically I leave around 5 30 in the morning for work you can see I
can have the days that it's going to do it as Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
and then down here well you can also have a separate charge schedule which is Nifty
but down here is where it gets interesting so down here you can activate the climate
on start so when you tell the car my departure time is 5 30 in the morning
and it starts up it'll turn on and set the cabin temperature to 72 degrees that's what
I have it set to if it's the winter time you can have it turn on the front defroster
so this is separate from remote starting the car from the main screen of the app this is when you
have it scheduled to start on a daily basis then it will precondition the cabin so down here save
on your energy bill when you set your vehicle to charge it off peak times when electricity rates
are reduced this doesn't apply to me here in Connecticut we don't have time of use fees for
electricity so you can select off peak charging if you live in a state where this happens I know
California is the big one so you can set a schedule say you're off peak starts at 8 pm
stop off peak at 8 A.M
and you can prioritize charging for off-peak hours or you can charge only during off peak
hours so for those of you who live in states with Peak rates this could be useful for you
I think some Chargers have the ability to set on and off peak charging schedules um I haven't
even looked into if my chargepoint home Flex has that but maybe it exists in the charger itself
so going back to the main screen
if you hold down on the image of your car you have some quick commands you can start charging
you can locate the vehicle you can lock the doors or you can return to the dashboard
so I'm not going to show you guys how to locate the vehicle that's pretty self-explanatory you
press the button it drops a pin where the car is located now these are probably going to be your
most used portions of the app so you can lock unlock remote climate start and if you scroll
back and forth here you've got some more options you can stop climate you can flash the lights and
you can Flash the horn and lights so let's uh flash the lights and see what that looks like
slash lights requested
I've never tried this before so
there you go flashes the lights I don't know how long it's going to do this for though the
app doesn't really tell you so okay so that was maybe 30 seconds of light flashing so
if you're trying to find your car in a parking lot that's a nice feature to have I'm not going
to do the horn and lights because I don't need the horn blaring in the neighborhood right now
but um climate start and climate stop so if you click on climate start you have some options
here I have a setting for summer winter snow so summer I have it just cool down the cabin
to 70 degrees in the winter I have it warm up to 70 degrees and if it's a snowy day if I'm
parked at the office I have it turn on all the defrosters as well as heat up the cabin
so it's a summer day let's go ahead and climate start today so we should be able to hear the
compressor kick on CE it processes the request you can see the front louvers just opened up
and then immediately shut and then opened again not sure why it did that
and so the AC system is kicking on now
so says climate start complete so let's go ahead and stop the climate just by pressing that button
climate stop requested
and I just heard the compressor kick off so there go the front flaps all set you can see it's fairly
responsive I think it's been getting better with time and software updates when I first got the car
it seemed like these actions would take forever to the point where I would rather just go out to
the car and start it by hand in the morning so you can also view remote actions history
which is kind of nice you can see when the lights came on the climate start and the climate stopped
so down here you can view your driving score which Hyundai bases on a few different factors
like acceleration braking okay so my driving score is 69. Elon Musk would be thrilled
um I don't use this for anything I think you can tie this to some insurance companies
similar to I did something with my insurance company Progressive where I connected my phone
to their app you know tracked my driving behavior for I think a month and then they gave me a
discount on my auto insurance based on that so I think this is similar to that but through Hyundai
you can view the details I'm not going to get into that but it's there
Valley mode let's view Valley mode details so Valley mode blocks Valley drivers
from accessing personal information records time period distance traveled
turned on and off via the Hyundai app so I can't say I've ever had a car valeted so this is not of
interest to me but if you get your car valued a lot I guess that could be useful for you and give
you a little bit of peace of mind that they're not taking your ionic 5 out for a joyride so down here
you got some other things Hyundai Finance you can if you finance through Hyundai you can log in here
and probably pay your bill see your statements see your balance all that good stuff you can
see your dealer mine's Key Hyundai of Manchester schedule service service offers blah blah blah
vehicle Safeguard alerts this is if you have a teenage child who's going to be using your car
you can set speed limit alerts I think curfews Geo fencing so if they cross a certain distance from
home it'll alert you I don't have teenage children but it's nice to know that the feature exists
so that about does it for the main page here if you go to Car Care you can see a diagnostic report
so here it'll just tell you if everything's running normally if anything's wrong I've
never seen anything here because it's a brand new car so let's just see Diagnostics history and see
if anything comes up for whatever reason I don't think it will but you never know
so no diagnostic history for my vehicle so in here you have a few other things you can
schedule service find a collision repair center offers and promotions
blah blah blah none of this stuff is super interesting um if we go to utilities here
's where you find things like your profile your deal your driving score more Hyundai finance
valet mode so this is all kind of redundant to what you find on the main home screen
so because my girlfriend also has a Hyundai EV the Kona electric we can swap back and forth between
both cars right here so if you click on the Cog up in the top right corner this is going to bring you
to the app settings so you have a few options so you can use a pin you can use your fingerprint you
can use face ID you can use all of these to log into the app and to activate things like climate
control and whatnot you can change your PIN change your password blah blah blah locked car doors are
required for a remote start by activating this feature car doors will automatically lock during
the remote start process so you can turn that on you can turn that off you can see down here
I'm currently connected on my pixel 6. you can see other devices registered under your account
you can deactivate devices
and down here is where you're going to set all your app notifications so down here under remote
these are all the notifications that you're going to get when you do things from the app
so you can turn these on you can turn them off you can get text emails or app notifications
so um engine idle alerts I actually want to turn those off because I had some
I kept getting those when I was shooting a video a few weeks ago and they got really annoying
head unit software update that's a good one to have on this is all pretty straightforward
if you've ever been to a settings page doesn't look that different up in the top right there's
a Hyundai virtual assistant so if you like a more conversational way of doing things this
Hyundai virtual assistant might be a good option for you but yeah that's a basic tour of the app
um I find it useful I wish it were faster um I wish it were free for the life of the car
I'm not sure what it costs after the three years is up I can't imagine it being more than a few
bucks a month I hope it's not because if that's the case I honestly don't know if I would continue
paying for it I know this this video is going to be mostly relevant to the United States possibly
Canada I don't really know what Canada's app looks like I know Europe and Asia their apps
look very different from the current version of our app I don't know if you guys are light years
ahead of us or light years behind us I tend to think you're light years ahead of us so anyway
that's going to do it for this video I hope you guys learned something so obviously if the app
gets updated in the future I'll be doing videos on that and showing you guys all the new features
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