Hey guys and welcome to the channel! My Name is Nick O'Leary!
Now today we're having a look at the voice assistant in your Mercedes.
And more specifically the "Hey Mercedes" voice assistant.
Car: How can I help?
That one!
So you may have owned your Mercedes-Benz for a while or have just picked it up
and are quite curious about that "Hey Mercedes" voice assistant.
Well there aren't complete command lists detailed in the manual or anything like that.
There are a couple but it doesn't detail all the cool things you can do with it.
So in this video today we're going to run through the top
10 "Hey Mercedes" commands that I personally use every day.
And starting at number one you can change the Ambient Lighting with your voice.
S o for example I've got the blue on at the moment let's change this to a different colour!
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How can I help?
Can you change the Ambient lighting to red please?
Car: Okay. I'm changing the colour.
And just like that it'll change the colour!
Now number two on the list is if you want to navigate somewhere using the Sat Nav.
Now you could do this with postcodes, road names, towns or even your home if you programmed it in.
Now what happens if you don't know the postcode? Well you can actually
give it a point of interest like a place name or something...so...
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How may I help you?
Navigate me to Mercedes-Benz of Poole.
Car: Here is what I found. Where do you want to go?
And then you can choose one on the list!
Now next up on the list is adding an Intermediate Destination. So this is basically if you have
one destination set in the Sat Nav but you want to add another place to go to along the
way like a stopover. So to give you an idea I've got the kind of the middle of Poole
the nearest town set on the Sat Nav at the moment so let's add a stop along the way.
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How can I help?
Can you add Mercedes-Benz of Poole as an Intermediate Destination?
Car: Here is what I found. Where do you want to go?
Car: Intermediate destination has been set. Route guidance is going to restart.
And just like that I've got the main destination or my finished destination
in the middle of Poole with a stopover at Mercedes-Benz of Poole.
Now at number 4 this is if you want to change the climate control using your voice. So I've
got the set to 18 degrees at the moment and say you wanted to turn up the heat.
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How may I help you?
Can you change the temperature to 26 degrees please?
Car: Temperature is 26 degrees.
As easy as that!
Now changing the temperature in here is one thing but what about
viewing the weather forecast? You can do that on the "Hey Mercedes" voice assistant.
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How may I help you?
What's the weather today please?
Car: Today it will be partly cloudy in Poole with a low of 13 and a high of 23 degrees.
And then you can scroll across here and actually view the weather by the hour.
But this is okay of course you can see the weather outside and maybe
know the weather for where you are so what about the weather for somewhere else?
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How can I help?
What's the weather in London today please?
Car: Today it will be rainy in London with a low of 15 and a high of 23 degrees.
So you can get a forecast in another town or city.
Next up is changing the radio or the music playback on your phone for example
so say I'm listening to a specific radio station and I want to change it to something else.
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How can I help?
Can you change the radio station to BBC Radio 2 please?
And it'll change it just like that.
So what about if you're playing music off of your phone for example?
Well that's quite easy just make sure the music is playing in the first place
however one thing to note is the actual type of app that you're using on your phone.
So for example if you have all the music stored locally on your actual device the actual files,
then if you plug it in you should be able to give it a command and ask it to play specific artists.
However if you're streaming the music say for example you're streaming new music that isn't
on your phone from Apple Music, Spotify or Amazon Music or any of these things and it's not stored
on your phone then the only thing you'll be able to do is go forward a track or back a track.
And the commands for that are:
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How may I help you?
Next track
And then you can do the same thing for the previous track by saying:
"Previous track"
Next on the list is heated seats now you can turn this on for the driver
or passenger and also adjust the level as well.
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How may I help you?
Can you turn on the driver's heated seat, level two please.
Car: Driver's seat heating at level two.
There you go!
Now of course while you're driving sometimes it may not be safe or even legal to use your phone
at the wheel, so why not get the voice assistant to make that call for you from your phone book!
"Hey Mercedes!
Car: How can I help?
Call Mercedes-Benz of Poole.
Car: Okay I am calling Mercedes-Benz of Poole.
Operator: Thank you for calling Mercedes-Benz of Poole.
Now one other very unique integration with MBUX is a thing called What3Words.
Now if you don't know what What3Words is, I'll link it up above so i urge you to check that
video out if you want to know more about how that works.
But in a very very simple way postcodes take you usually to an area so I'm actually surrounded by
a load of houses at the moment and there's probably one postcode for the area. And then
of course you've got the house numbers and sometimes it may not be very very clear.
So what What3Words does is take you directly to a square on the floor in very very small squares
dotted around the whole of planet earth. So the square of Mercedes-Benz Poole's front
door, so not just their car park, the actual front door to get in is:
So to navigate there on What3Words with the MBUX system.
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How can I help?
Navigate me to What3Words, Twice Hugs Spins.
Car: Here is what I found. Where do you want to go?
Car: Let's go!
And that'll take you directly to the front door and not just the area.
Of course I do detail in that What3Words video on how to get these What3Words,
but you basically download the What3Words app but nonetheless it's a very simple way and very
fast way of actually navigating to a specific point on the map.
Now of course a very very useful feature again while driving is
if you want the Mercedes system to read out text messages for you.
So as long as you've got this enabled in Settings on your phone
so on most Android products it'll prompt you when you first link it.
But on Apple products it's a little bit different so you need to go to:
Settings, Bluetooth
and then find your car in this list tap on the 'i' and then toggle on 'Show Notifications'.
Next time you're in your car, any messages that come through will
then come through to MBUX and then you can get it to read them out.
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How may I help you?
Can you read out my last text message?
And then she'll read it out to you.
So all these commands are really really good but the German engineers have put
some kind of easter eggs and some jokes in there as well so speaking of jokes.
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How can I help?
Can you tell me a joke?
Car: German engineers don't joke with cars.
Oh wow okay!
I haven't heard that one before!
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How may I help you?
Can you tell me another joke?
Car: Why did the tomato blush? Because it saw the salad dressing!
Ah so it does tell jokes!
"Hey Mercedes"
Car: How may I help you?
What do you think of Audi?
Car: The same as you do, otherwise you would not be sitting here!
And there we go guys! That concludes this week's video on the
Top 10 Commands that I personally use on the "Hey Mercedes" voice assistant.
Do you have your own commands? Do you use it in a slightly different way?
Let me know in the comments section down below but again as always huge shout out to Sandown
Mercedes-Benz for the supply of the cars you see in the videos. As without them I wouldn't
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