-= BMW Live by BimmerTech - new exciting features =-

[Patrys@BimmerTech]

BimmerTech is proud to present the BMW Live services.
They are available for all our customers ordering the Combox Media or Telematics retrofit with the Internet enabled over the phone's data connection.

The BMW Live includes the following services:
- News
- Weather
- Google Local Search
- Street View
- Panoramio

The Combox retrofit is now even more attractive with all these cool features:
- latest Bluetooth integration in your BMW
- Bluetooth audio streaming
- Album art covers
- Office menu
- Web browser
- BMW Live
- can be extended with the BMW Apps, BMW Plugin and Video playback

The Google Local Search included in BMW Live will let you find your POI in the Google database and add it to your Navigation directly from your iDrive

We can retrofit the Combox in any 2009+ 3-series vehicle even without the Bluetooth and Bluetooth preparation.

All commercial questions please send to info@bimmer-tech.net.

Thanks and enjoy!

[Technic]

Again and again, BimmerTech delivers...

[MrUnsubtleNinja]

Originally Posted by Technic

Again and again, BimmerTech delivers...

Yeah this is really making me want to order my car even sooner lol.

Out of curiosity, not to seem stupid or anything but since I'm planning to order a M3 Coupe with iDrive and the BWM App's Package, what all would be required in retro-fitting this in to my car. I assume this is a feature that is available on the 5-series and 6-series cars but as I'm new to BMW Culture please correct me if I'm wrong thanks!

[ssabripo]

No this feature in my car, no care

[Technic]

Originally Posted by MrUnsubtleNinja

Yeah this is really making me want to order my car even sooner lol.

Out of curiosity, not to seem stupid or anything but since I'm planning to order a M3 Coupe with iDrive and the BWM App's Package, what all would be required in retro-fitting this in to my car. I assume this is a feature that is available on the 5-series and 6-series cars but as I'm new to BMW Culture please correct me if I'm wrong thanks!

Your M3 will have the required hardware for this software update, so there's nothing to physically retrofit. What you will need outside the car is a phone with tethering capabilities via Bluetooth.

[GOLFFRR]

thats awesome!

[MrUnsubtleNinja]

Originally Posted by Technic

Your M3 will have the required hardware for this software update, so there's nothing to physically retrofit. What you will need outside the car is a phone with tethering capabilities via Bluetooth.

Okay, that is freaking awesome

[Technic]

Press release:

BMW Live: Infotainment Services via the Customer's Mobile Phone

One of the latest attractive new services from BMW ConnectedDrive is BMW Live. Using any internet-capable mobile phone, and subject to data charges, it allows a limited number of the existing BMW Online services to be accessed via Bluetooth. All the available Online functions are transmitted by Bluetooth to the in-dash display. They can be operated easily and intuitively using the iDrive Controller, with the customer's mobile phone serving as the modem. From launch, BMW Live will provide free news via RSS feeds, weather information and the functions Google Local Search, Google Panoramio and Google Street View. To activate their favourite news feeds, customers simply input the relevant domain. The portal then automatically searches for the associated RSS feeds on the website. Headlines can be read aloud via BMW's text-to-speech function. The weather data, which includes both the current weather conditions and a four-day forecast, is presented on the monitor in clear, easily readable colour images.

The Google functions offered by BMW Live - Google Local Search, Panoramio and Street View - work similarly to the functions available in the current BMW Online system. The start page offers location selection, search box, categories and history. Addresses found using Google Local Search can be imported directly into the vehicle's navigation system. It is also possible, using the iDrive Controller, to select and display destination images from Google Panoramio and Street View, both while stationary and when on the move. The new BMW Live service from BMW ConnectedDrive is at present only available in the new BMW 1 Series. Customers can configure this service to their own individual requirements. Further BMW Live applications will shortly be made available worldwide (except in the USA, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan).

[immiketoo]

So wait. How do I get this functionality? Someone put it in simple terms.

[MrUnsubtleNinja]

Originally Posted by immiketoo

So wait. How do I get this functionality? Someone put it in simple terms.

I imagine it would be as simple as a Firmware Upgrade Disc

[Technic]

Originally Posted by immiketoo

So wait. How do I get this functionality? Someone put it in simple terms.

Sending an email to the vendor should help you.

[1sexyfd]

Pretty cool! email sent...

[GOVCO]

I presume this would work on a 09' E90 Ms w/o BT capability?

[Technic]

Originally Posted by GOVCO

I presume this would work on a 09' E90 Ms w/o BT capability?

Yes, your iDrive would require a firmware update and the Combox module would have to be OEM retrofitted in your M3.

This is an example of an OEM Combox retrofit and all the features included with it: http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=537592

[Patrys@BimmerTech]

The BMW Live can be retrofitted in any 2009+ 3-series.
However it requires the following components to work:
- CIC Navigation
- Combox
- BMW supported phone for Internet access, e.g. iPhone4 with tethering enabled

When the Internet is enabled Assist features in the CIC are disabled.
The SOS button will still work fine so there the communication between the car and Assist will be preserved.

If the car does not have the Bluetooth we can retrofit the Combox and enable the Web browser and BMW Live as well as extend it with the BMW Apps, BMW Plugin and Video playback from iPhone.

[Cybertronic]

Sent PM

[Gtrain]

Awesome stuff. Can this be done to the 1M?

[Lorde]

Awww Patryk, I didn't know you were taking us all out to the Cheesecake Factory!

[Vise]

Sorry for the dumb question but are all of these features available natively on a 2011.75 M3 (ie. BMW Live) with BMW Apps? I've seen much of the discussion is on retrofitting earlier cars but I have a 2011 on order (July production) with BMW Apps and I'm unclear on what features will be available and what would need to be added via software upgrade. Thanks.

[Cybertronic]

Originally Posted by Vise

Sorry for the dumb question but are all of these features available natively on a 2011.75 M3 (ie. BMW Live) with BMW Apps? I've seen much of the discussion is on retrofitting earlier cars but I have a 2011 on order (July production) with BMW Apps and I'm unclear on what features will be available and what would need to be added via software upgrade. Thanks.

I would tell you if anyone ever got back to me on this... Sent several PM's and an email. Nothing back so far.... I'm sarting to think this is a hoax.
I also have a 2011.75 (got it last week) and am ready to do this install.
Anybody, anybody?

[MrUnsubtleNinja]

Originally Posted by Cybertronic

I would tell you if anyone ever got back to me on this... Sent several PM's and an email. Nothing back so far.... I'm sarting to think this is a hoax.
I also have a 2011.75 (got it last week) and am ready to do this install.
Anybody, anybody?

From what I understand from post #8 it is currently only available on the new 1 series. If I'm right that would include the 1M gtrain I could be wrong I'm only currently looking at getting an M3 so I'm trying to learn as much as I possibly can.

[Patrys@BimmerTech]

Originally Posted by Cybertronic

I would tell you if anyone ever got back to me on this... Sent several PM's and an email. Nothing back so far.... I'm sarting to think this is a hoax.
I also have a 2011.75 (got it last week) and am ready to do this install.
Anybody, anybody?

I have many emails from different people I am trying to reply to them one by one, but I checked my PMs and I have just one PM I received from you yesterday, so I am not sure what "several PM's" you are referring to.
Anyway I am sorry it takes us so long to reply!!!

And this is not a hoax.

You will hear from me today. Again sorry for the delay.