Mine arrived yesterday, bought at the discounted promotion price. No additional duty to pay or costs incurred, delivery by Fed-Ex to central London.
Chigee AOI lite
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Mine is being resent today
My neighbour will have mine today before noon, I will rob her of it when I return home.
And in hand now.
Looks like a well put together device.
Has a decent heft to it.
I’ve swapped over the ball mount for the bar mount.
Looks like a well put together device.
Has a decent heft to it.
I’ve swapped over the ball mount for the bar mount.
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Following with interest……..
Keeping on eye on this, especially when a BMW sat nav mount appears
Been a long evening last night, but I got there eventually.
I did not want to cut up original loom supplied with the unit, so has to do some adapting work. By using 6” of two core cable, crimping two banjo connectors on one end and. Bolting these together with stainless steel M6x8mm bolts & and half (lock) nuts. Then slipped corresponding colour 3:1 heat shrink over each joint. The opposing ends on the 6” cable were adorned with a pair of spade crimps, head shrink over the top of that too, to make it waterproof.
KTM are excellent at providing you easy power source. ACC1 being permanent live, and ACC2 being switched live. Getting there though involves removing the headlight, which is a bit of a PITA.
The CHIGEE loom has three cables that need connecting. The red and the black go to battery terminals. As mentioned above I did not do that. Instead adapted it to fit connectors behind the headlight. The red and black went into ACC1 and a single yellow (trigger wire) went into the positive terminal of ACC2 connector.
A quick test before putting the bike back together and it is a success.
Unit powers up and ready in circa 10-15 seconds.
Phone connects to the unit in under 10 seconds. All wirelessly, by first establishing a Bluetooth connection, then using its own WiFi connection to keep it going and assuming to prevent the phone from being drained to quickly.
In my Givi tank bag, I have their own USB power hub. Which is connected via fly lead to a connector mounted just in front of the fuel tank but behind a right fork leg (see photo bellow, bottom right corner)
I do not mount the phone anywhere on the bike, as I just don’t like to have to much clutter, in the tank bag it is safe, but also meant it goes get a charge out of the elements.
Anyway, the unit is up, just need to set up the apps properly, and link intercom another way if the current setup does not work. That ride to my Local J&S shortly.
Will report back.
I did not want to cut up original loom supplied with the unit, so has to do some adapting work. By using 6” of two core cable, crimping two banjo connectors on one end and. Bolting these together with stainless steel M6x8mm bolts & and half (lock) nuts. Then slipped corresponding colour 3:1 heat shrink over each joint. The opposing ends on the 6” cable were adorned with a pair of spade crimps, head shrink over the top of that too, to make it waterproof.
KTM are excellent at providing you easy power source. ACC1 being permanent live, and ACC2 being switched live. Getting there though involves removing the headlight, which is a bit of a PITA.
The CHIGEE loom has three cables that need connecting. The red and the black go to battery terminals. As mentioned above I did not do that. Instead adapted it to fit connectors behind the headlight. The red and black went into ACC1 and a single yellow (trigger wire) went into the positive terminal of ACC2 connector.
A quick test before putting the bike back together and it is a success.
Unit powers up and ready in circa 10-15 seconds.
Phone connects to the unit in under 10 seconds. All wirelessly, by first establishing a Bluetooth connection, then using its own WiFi connection to keep it going and assuming to prevent the phone from being drained to quickly.
In my Givi tank bag, I have their own USB power hub. Which is connected via fly lead to a connector mounted just in front of the fuel tank but behind a right fork leg (see photo bellow, bottom right corner)
I do not mount the phone anywhere on the bike, as I just don’t like to have to much clutter, in the tank bag it is safe, but also meant it goes get a charge out of the elements.
Anyway, the unit is up, just need to set up the apps properly, and link intercom another way if the current setup does not work. That ride to my Local J&S shortly.
Will report back.
Just back from a ride and a visit to J&S to try on the WP jacket.
CHIGEE is great, in that it is doing what it suppose to do, that being mirroring my iPhone in Apple CarPlay mode.
The iPhone (as mentioned earlier) is connected to it. The iPhone also at same time via Bluetooth and KTM my Ride*, connected to my bikes dash, as is my Neotec 2 Sena Mesh intercom. This arrangement in turn allows me to be able to answer phone calls, pause, play forward, rewind (including skipping) as well as adjust the volume of the music being played, via the left switchgear. Since CHIGEE is essentially only mirroring my iPhone, pausing or skipping music tracks, has no untoward effect on it.
All is good then? Well yes and no.
Please see the following link if you are indeed interested in CHIGEE and MRA.
Unfortunately KTM have f***ed many owners off, by replacing the original not so great app, with the one that is even worse and you have to pay for. Anyway, not much was lost there, as navigation was only A—> B and exceptionally basic.
CHIGEE is great, in that it is doing what it suppose to do, that being mirroring my iPhone in Apple CarPlay mode.
The iPhone (as mentioned earlier) is connected to it. The iPhone also at same time via Bluetooth and KTM my Ride*, connected to my bikes dash, as is my Neotec 2 Sena Mesh intercom. This arrangement in turn allows me to be able to answer phone calls, pause, play forward, rewind (including skipping) as well as adjust the volume of the music being played, via the left switchgear. Since CHIGEE is essentially only mirroring my iPhone, pausing or skipping music tracks, has no untoward effect on it.
All is good then? Well yes and no.
Please see the following link if you are indeed interested in CHIGEE and MRA.
MRA in use with CHIGEE AIO-5 Play (Apple CarPlay)
Forgive me Tour Dad if this is in the wrong section. Please move it into different section as you do see fit. The following links (#107 - #108 below) are from the (Chigee AIO-5 Lite) thread, but I do include it here (as well as my last two post on said thread (see bellow)) for continuity...
www.ukgser.com
Unfortunately KTM have f***ed many owners off, by replacing the original not so great app, with the one that is even worse and you have to pay for. Anyway, not much was lost there, as navigation was only A—> B and exceptionally basic.
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I’ve been bumming around in France for the last couple of weeks, starting back tomorrow and home on Monday. I’ve done it all on the Chigee using the MRA app and as a combination it’s been rock solid. Done 1700 miles so far (no peace or autoroute) without connection issues, nav issues and also caught up with some audiobooks while riding using the audible app in CarPlay.
Turn the key, power up, device connected, ride, top banana.
Turn the key, power up, device connected, ride, top banana.
Thank you Richard. Top banana!
Mine got sent back twice as under declared by sender .
I gave them one more chance and it arrived in 48 hours from Hong Kong via Bahrain and East Mids to Guernsey
Pretty quick !!!
I gave them one more chance and it arrived in 48 hours from Hong Kong via Bahrain and East Mids to Guernsey
Pretty quick !!!
Had a quick play with the unit . Very impressed .
Instructions a bit shite as tells you to download and open the Chigee Go app then scan a code but mine worked fine without doing that .
Think that’s if you have the full system with cameras etc .
Just need a bike to fit it too now and work out where to tap the yellow wire into
Edited to add
Was speaking with Ev.
I’ll be using the Chigee on my Himmy when it turns up and I’ll wire it up via my Thunderbox.
That only powers up in Auto mode when everything is stable so won’t have an issue with the yellow acc wire from the Chigee.
Should work by just sticking it in the positive terminal of the Thunderbox ?
Instructions a bit shite as tells you to download and open the Chigee Go app then scan a code but mine worked fine without doing that .
Think that’s if you have the full system with cameras etc .
Just need a bike to fit it too now and work out where to tap the yellow wire into
Edited to add
Was speaking with Ev.
I’ll be using the Chigee on my Himmy when it turns up and I’ll wire it up via my Thunderbox.
That only powers up in Auto mode when everything is stable so won’t have an issue with the yellow acc wire from the Chigee.
Should work by just sticking it in the positive terminal of the Thunderbox ?
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My unit did not power up until the yellow trigger wire had power going to it.
I think you should be ok to connect Yellow wire to same positive Wago connector as the Red one, if from my understanding the Thunderbox it self acts as a switch.
Martin sent me this screenshot the other day, from the Thunderbox website. Scroll down to and tap onFeatures, then scroll down to “Multiple working modes”
Here is the spiel link to Chigee website.
I think you should be ok to connect Yellow wire to same positive Wago connector as the Red one, if from my understanding the Thunderbox it self acts as a switch.
Martin sent me this screenshot the other day, from the Thunderbox website. Scroll down to and tap onFeatures, then scroll down to “Multiple working modes”
Here is the spiel link to Chigee website.
That’s interesting. The device itself must need a separate trigger, to open its power circuits.
The device supports cameras in parking mode, i.e. with the cameras recording but the display, CarPlay connection, etc. being turned off.
It knows if it’s in such mode by the absence of 12v on the trigger wire, hence the requirement to connect it.
If you aren’t bothered about parking mode then both red and yellow can go to the same switched 12v supply, but yellow must be connected to a switched source otherwise the unit never knows when to turn on the display and connect to the phone.
It knows if it’s in such mode by the absence of 12v on the trigger wire, hence the requirement to connect it.
If you aren’t bothered about parking mode then both red and yellow can go to the same switched 12v supply, but yellow must be connected to a switched source otherwise the unit never knows when to turn on the display and connect to the phone.
I got mine back in April and had the BMW connector fitted to it so it takes all the power from the BMW nav plug (nothing going to the battery). Works perfectly and the additional cameras work really well. Used it every day on a recent 2 week trip through Spain and it was flawless.. Brilliant bit of kit1
I've got my Chigee "Play" fitted to the Tuareg now, a lot simpler than the Lite I have on the Mandello, the Play has built in GPS to, I just took the live and the yellow trigger wire to the 12v switched live behind the dash for the factory fit USB and all is well. You can run the play from the included USB cable to if you wish. It behaved perfectly on a route to and from the ABR I'd plotted in MRA. I am really impressed with both of the Chigee units I have so far.
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