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Originally Posted by Renegadenick
I have a Unichip Wired unit and the steering wheel voice button activates Siri after a short press. Not sure if it matters that I have a 335i.
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All "old" Unichip Wired units seem to have steering wheel voice button command set to enable Siri.
Both Kremersino and JoeyAuto told me that they disabled it and moved it to the iDrive controller due to conflict issues with the OEM voice command function.
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Originally Posted by yuyuyuyu
Interesting my kremersino unit's steering wheel voice button activates the OEM voice control and not siri. Wondering if there's a setting for this..
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Kremersino units are definitely different in shape and software from Joey/Unique.
Your voice command button activating OEM voice command function simply means that your CarPlay box doesn't interject that button.
I think there are 3 main manufacturers of CarPlay boxes, let me try to put it down on a list and please correct it if I'm wrong:
IDCORE (wireless)
reselled by Unique-AD
reselled/repackaged(?) by JoeyAuto
+ starts automatically on engine start
- supports only external microphone
- can't use steering wheel voice command button to invoke Siri
- doesn't seem to "officially" support Android Auto yet, only in beta
Kremersino (wireless)
very similar to IDCORE but different shape, menu
+ supports Android Auto
- supports only external microphone
- doesn't start automatically on engine start
- can't use steering wheel voice command button to invoke Siri
Unichip (wired)
reselled by Carlinkit
+ connects to OEM microphone
+ can use steering wheel voice command button to invoke Siri
- it's wired only