Help - iPhone 3GS auto answer with Starcom/Zumo

[NLC]

Hi just installed a Starcom connected to my Zumo 660. Works great except I can't figure out how to get the Zumo to autoanswer my iPhone 3GS? My intent was to have my music on the Zumo (got a 16gb micro sd card) to load up the tunes and have the iphone BT to the Zumo for phone. I like using the Zumo to make outgoing calls instead of taking the gloves off and search for the iPhone.

Going 70mph I got a call on the phone and the Autocom flashed up and I would have to take my hands off the bars to click accept which is not a good idea.

Any thoughts?

Starcom says they have another module to fix this for £80 but that is a lot of beer money or one tank of fuel.

 

[ChasMill]

They claim they do - I bought one of the last ones they had left at the NEC.

It is a bluetooth module that can stream music and forces the iPhone to auto answwer (according to the salesman).

Have not fitted it yet so cannot confirm or otherwise ...

 

[NLC]

Garmin doesn't auto answer. Pretty lame to pay £££ for a device that expects you to take the hands off the bars at 70mph to answer the phone imho.

 

[ChasMill]

And neither does iPhone - equally lame for a device that costs £££. Particularly when it comes with bluetooth, usually used for "hands free" calling?

 

[Bumpkin]

My HTC phone doesn't do auto answer on Bluetooth either. If that's a requirement then maybe the solution is a separate Starcom Bluetooth module that has auto answer, I have an Autocom BT module that does this. I'm sure that, now they are owned by Tecstar, they have a similar product.

 

[NLC]

I just turn my phone off now. I forget that the phone is on and it always happens - on the Motorway and using the GPS someone calls and then I loose the screen because it is waiting for me to answer the phone. Obviously no one at Garmin drives a Motorcycle and uses a phone... or maybe they are in cahoots with Starcom/Autocom.

 

[hops]

starcom

The starcom bluetooth module does not force the iphone to answer despite what you might be told by their staff. I bought one and had to get rid and go down the autocom route. I was 'reliably' informed by the salesman that as they are effectively one company now their products are interchangeable.

Bollocks they are...

 

[ChasMill]

The starcom bluetooth module does not force the iphone to answer despite what you might be told by their staff. I bought one and had to get rid and go down the autocom route.

New module or the old one (still on their web site)?

The one I bought is version 2 (I did have the old version but sold it on here last year).

 

[casperghst42]

New bluetooth module from Autocom which does autoanswer: http://www.chainspeed.co.uk/product...%2d02A-Compatible-With-All-Autocom-Units.html


Casper

 

[Bumpkin]

New bluetooth module from Autocom which does autoanswer: http://www.chainspeed.co.uk/product...%2d02A-Compatible-With-All-Autocom-Units.html

In the new 2011 Starcom brochure (their website is utter pants) there's a BTM-02 Bluetooth module listed. This looks like, and shares the same part number as, the new Autocom BTM-02A. However, the text plainly says that it doesn't do auto-answer. Maybe the A in the Autocom version's part number stands for auto-answer rather than Autocom

 

[hops]

fairly sure

New module or the old one (still on their web site)?

The one I bought is version 2 (I did have the old version but sold it on here last year).

It was the newer one but I am far from certain

 

[Goose]

Hi just installed a Starcom connected to my Zumo 660. Works great except I can't figure out how to get the Zumo to autoanswer my iPhone 3GS? My intent was to have my music on the Zumo (got a 16gb micro sd card) to load up the tunes and have the iphone BT to the Zumo for phone. I like using the Zumo to make outgoing calls instead of taking the gloves off and search for the iPhone.

Going 70mph I got a call on the phone and the Autocom flashed up and I would have to take my hands off the bars to click accept which is not a good idea.

Any thoughts?

Starcom says they have another module to fix this for £80 but that is a lot of beer money or one tank of fuel.

Interesting to see where your Zumo is mounted....? Mines on the left side of the handlebar and I can utilise the screen of teh Zumo without taking my eyes off the road...and no change in body position at all.
Your problem seems to be the postition of the unit? Can you not re-adjust so it's easier to access? Won't cost you anything extra......

 

[ChasMill]

In the new 2011 Starcom brochure (their website is utter pants) there's a BTM-02 Bluetooth module listed. This looks like, and shares the same part number as, the new Autocom BTM-02A. However, the text plainly says that it doesn't do auto-answer. Maybe the A in the Autocom version's part number stands for auto-answer rather than Autocom

Very interesting - NOT what the bloke on the Starcom stand told me at the NEC. I will be having a "chat" with them next Fridat at the Excel ......

 

[NLC]

I've got mine mounted on top of the speedo to the left. Position is fine its the short arms that the man upstair blessed me with. I have the touratwat mounting bar and bracket that it sits in. Thought about putting it on the bars but didn't like that. Anyways if a copper sees you playing with while in motion £60 and 3 points...

Chas when I spoke to Starcom this week he was definitive that it would answer my iPhone and give me clear music in stereo which the Zumo will not.

 

[hops]

Thought about putting it on the bars but didn't like that. Anyways if a copper sees you playing with while in motion £60 and 3 points...

As long as the phone is in a holder you are okay pressing buttons whilst on the move, assuming of course it does not reduce your concentration so as put in the frame for without due care etc.

 

[ChasMill]

Chas when I spoke to Starcom this week he was definitive that it would answer my iPhone and give me clear music in stereo.

As they did when I bought it at the NEC. Contradicted by the brochure though?

 

[Bumpkin]

As they did when I bought it at the NEC. Contradicted by the brochure though?

Odd that the Autocom does auto-answer though, it's (practically) the same company and the same dongle

 

[ChasMill]

As they did when I bought it at the NEC. Contradicted by the brochure though?

The brochure is WRONG. The new module (BTM 02) was specifically designed for the iPhone as forces it to auto answer (according to the bloke from Starcom I have just spoken to).

 

[Pukmeister]

I just received my Autocom Bluetooth module this weekend, I hope you are right about the auto-answer on the iPhone as I keep missing calls at present.

I hope to power it from the same beak power cable as the satnav so it is switched via the ignition, and use it to run my old TT Rider 1 with the iPhone as auto answer capable. If not I will probably have to shell out for a Zumo 660 as the TT Rider is a bit old and well-used (although still a capable navigation unit).

 

[djsky]

I've just installed my starcom1 Digital with BTM-02

I can't say if it auto answers yet, as i only JUST installed it in the last hour. I came back indoors to google a different problem and found this... I hope it DOES auto answer...

On a different matter, I'm a bit concerned with the stereo bluetooth feature of the iphone and BTM-02.

Basically, when start my bike, the iphone connects by bluetooth, no problem. I also connect the standard stereo minijack lead to the MUSIC input and happily listen to my iphone's tunes.

But annoyingly... BOTH audio AND phone get paired up to bluetooth, so on initial startup, I have to select the "Headset" output of my iphone for the music.

The trouble then is that when I used the phone, it used the "Headset" to send the phone's audio through, and I had to physically change the audio source of the phonecall to the bluetooth module.

Then when the call finishes, I get horrible mono music coming thorugh bluetooth, and have to change on the iphone, the music output back to headset again.

Basically this would not have been a problem until apple introduced the bluetooth audio feature some time ago. nor would it be a problem if you could deactivate the bluetooth stereo audio feature of the BTM-02 or the iphone.

it looks like i'm simply going to have to use a separate ipod for music and the iphone for the calls.