W204 UMI, a bit help please

[Diesel Benz]

I retrofitted the UMI kit to wife's 204. I've coded the cluster and now I can see the navigation menu at the cluster. I can play music from an iPod or stream music from my phone etc. but I have stupid question: how should I select navigation mode from the head unit?

The UMI user manual does not seem to cover this, should there be a navi menu or something.

The installation guide does not suggest any coding for the head unit and there does not appear any options to version code anything either.

Is there a simple keypad short-cut that I did not figure out or does it look like my setup has an issue?

 

[npuk]

You need to update the UMI to Navigation 20 first dont you?

 

[Diesel Benz]

You need to update the UMI to Navigation 20 first dont you?

Why? This is my plan, the kit was old but UMI should have real navigation too, not only the cluster navi menu.

OK, looks like I did not read the manual properly, have to verify it in the car still but the manual talks about a long press on the C-button next to the controller button.

 

[roswaldo]

Hello there,

Navigation is selected by pressing the C button beside the click wheel doodat in the center console.

Found the Satnav easy to use and accurate.

Steve

 

[Diesel Benz]

Hello there,

Navigation is selected by pressing the C button beside the click wheel doodat in the center console.

Found the Satnav easy to use and accurate.

Steve

Thanks, the manual after all explains this. Not the most intuitive approach but probably a good approach considering that the radio is not aware of the device, it just "steals" the display and reads CAN-bus for control.

It does respond a bit slowly compared to my NTG3 but address entry should be sufficient once per trip only. I did not find a setting for normal map display, is the "3D" or "bird's eye view" the only option during navigation?

UMI appears to have more languages supported than NTG3 does, strange when data is stored on flash memory instead of a hard drive.

Have you updated UMI to Navigation 20? I think I should do it if it has more up-to-date maps, we have some significant new major roads near by, perhaps I should try to check if these are included in the update (only came with the 9.0 update for the NTG1 Comand).

 

[calja03]

You can change the map view by moving the control wheel forwards or backwards. Rotating the wheel zooms in or out. In both cases, you need to be in 'full map view' i.e. the menu items for Nav, TMC, Destination & Return should not be visible. (Move the control wheel forwards if the menu is visible should do this).

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Diesel Benz]

You can change the map view by moving the control wheel forwards or backwards. Rotating the wheel zooms in or out. In both cases, you need to be in 'full map view' i.e. the menu items for Nav, TMC, Destination & Return should not be visible. (Move the control wheel forwards if the menu is visible should do this).

Cheers,

Jim

Thanks, I did observe this too when playing with the device at the car. Another feature where it outperforms the NTG3 (I prefer the traditional view but a point to note anyway).

It would be useful if these settings were available from the menus too, specifically for the wife who would not want to learn short-cuts, if even cares to look at the menus.