Coding Anti-Dazzle and Variable Light Distribution

[kd7iwp]

Last night as I was installing Esys I discovered the BimmerUtility. Anyone else used it? Some folks on Bimmerfest were showing me it's the new tool to use as Esys launchers are no longer developed. It's now installed but I didn't play with it yet. Has an iPhone app as well and you can do VO coding with it which is what I'm looking for.

 

[alohart]

Last night as I was installing Esys I discovered the BimmerUtility. Anyone else used it? Some folks on Bimmerfest were showing me it's the new tool to use as Esys launchers are no longer developed. It's now installed but I didn't play with it yet. Has an iPhone app as well and you can do VO coding with it which is what I'm looking for.

Looks interesting! If I hadn't already licensed BimmerCode and BimmerLink, I might be more interested in paying a $98 license fee because it seems to provide more functionality, apparently including VO coding. However, some of its functionality seems to require an E-Sys installation which I don't have and aren't thrilled to have to deal with. I'll look at reviews and try to understand what it could do without E-Sys.

 

[Mustrum Ridcully]

Last night as I was installing Esys I discovered the BimmerUtility. Anyone else used it? Some folks on Bimmerfest were showing me it's the new tool to use as Esys launchers are no longer developed. It's now installed but I didn't play with it yet. Has an iPhone app as well and you can do VO coding with it which is what I'm looking for.

link or links please

 

[kd7iwp]

link or links please

https://www.bimmerutility.com/

 

[kd7iwp]

Looks interesting! If I hadn't already licensed BimmerCode and BimmerLink, I might be more interested in paying a $98 license fee because it seems to provide more functionality, apparently including VO coding. However, some of its functionality seems to require an E-Sys installation which I don't have and aren't thrilled to have to deal with. I'll look at reviews and try to understand what it could do without E-Sys.

It looks like you can change the VO without Esys, but if you do want to do Esys it will do validations and calculations the way other launchers did in the past. Heck, looks like you can even change the VO from their iPhone app.

 

[SSi3]

Yay Martin and headlight nerding!

 

[tongsli]

Yay Martin and headlight nerding!

very interesting conclusion. Just like what they said about the heat pump. I hope you guys get this figured out, regardless.

 

[Gonville]

The LED headlights on our 2014 i3 had something like "BMW Adaptive" written inside their housings even though their aim only moved vertically to compensate for a heavy load in the cargo area, for example. Their aim moved up when they were turned on which was obvious when parked facing a wall. I believe the adaptive LED headlights on European i3's were more adaptive, maybe moving horizontally as the steering wheel is turned, or maybe there was a control inside the cabin that allowed the driver to adjust their aim.

I just re-read this. I too had the “BMW Adaptive” inside the housing. The thing was I ordered in 2014 the ‘adaptive’ LEDs as I already had that in my F10 and they were amazing. Imagine how annoyed I was to find they were just self levelling. There was no adaptation and no refund. Later they changed the words in the marketing blurb. They also removed the plastic wording in the headlamp in the 94Ah later. I had to wait until 2022 for the function to arrive in the EU/UK. Pity. Wasted 8 years.

 

[Gonville]

VO (Vehicle Order) coding changes enable options whose hardware was installed but not enabled by software. All U.S. i3's included a 1-year subscription to Sirius satellite radio, but satellite radio had to be enabled for Sirius to be received which is was in U.S. i3's. However, it might not have been enable in other markets, so VO coding could enable it. Note that BimmerCode is unable to do VO coding; BMW's E-Sys software is required, only pirated copies of which are available to most of us. Installation and configuration seem challenging.

I don't know how Enhanced Bluetooth differs from "standard" Bluetooth and whether all U.S. i3's have Enhanced Bluetooth enabled. However, if not, VO coding could do so.

I think enhanced Bluetooth allows 2 phones to connect?