media control with right joystick

[jasonh]

On my old mg4 I had ths function which I am missing.
"Android Auto then the right joystick controls the media ... up/down for volume and right/left for Next Track/Previous Track. Press in for Play/Pause"
Cant find any assignment in the menu for the media player controls.

 

[nem]

Thats how mine works without any setup. Not even sure we can change it.

 

[jasonh]

I can only seem to change the volume on spotify with the right joystick. Do you know which choice of star button you have selected please?

 

[nem]

I might not be understanding what youre asking..

I only use android auto (maps/abrp and spotify usually) and the right thumbstick works for controlling volume (up/down), next/prev (right/left) and play/pause (press).
This is not related to my star buttons, but for posterity have left star as shortcut for regen and right star is shortcut to ac.

 

[jasonh]

I might not be understanding what youre asking..

I only use android auto (maps/abrp and spotify usually) and the right thumbstick works for controlling volume (up/down), next/prev (right/left) and play/pause (press).
This is not related to my star buttons, but for posterity have left star as shortcut for regen and right star is shortcut to ac.

thats exactly what i want it to do, but was trying to say that regardless of what setting the star buttons have (I thought this would make a difference).

My right joystick only changes the volume up/down

 

[nem]

Aha, thats indeed quite strange. I havent done any adjustments to mine. And i just recently discovered that i can press to pause.

Not sure if it can be related to android auto version or something..

 

[Lovemyev]

When you enter the car and boot into ready mode, does the radio automatically start playing your favourite radio station displayed on the screen ?.
Or do you have to press the play button on the screen, each and every time when you boot up the car to play the sound ?.
Cheers .

 

[Ian Key]

When you enter the car and boot into ready mode, does the radio automatically start playing your favourite radio station displayed on the screen ?.
Or do you have to press the play button on the screen, each and every time when you boot up the car to play the sound ?.
Cheers .

Is your question about the MGS5 or the ZS EV which is shown that you are driving under your avatar?

 

[Lovemyev]

Is your question about the MGS5 or the ZS EV which is shown that you are driving under your avatar?

Sorry Ian - it’s about the MGS5 I need to switch over my profile picture - Dooh !.
Thank for reminding me .
It’s been awhile while - how do you change it ?.

 

[MG Clive]

It’s been awhile while - how do you change it ?.

"Account Details" in your Profile, and change "Driving" from the drop-down menu.

 

[Lovemyev]

"Account Details" in your Profile, and change "Driving" from the drop-down menu.

Thank you - all sorted now !.

 

[MG Clive]

Thank you - all sorted now !.

Just this to change now mate.

 

[Lovemyev]

Rats ! ……. I missed that one.
Hopefully its done now, thanks to your help.
Let me know if I have goofed up again.
Tech is not my strong point at 70 unfortunately .

 

[jasonh]

Ok this glitch has now rectified itself.
The right joystick now works exactly as it did for controlling the media functions.
Also this is regardless of the function settings of the * button.

Happy boy again.

 

[TimothyN]

Tech is not my strong point at 70 unfortunately .

I can't let that go.

I am a couple of years short of 70 and, ***, we were the generation that actually understood tech.

We understood how computers worked and we built them from parts.

When I first programmed it was FORTRAN, and Assembly for the bits FORTRAN couldn't do. If our software failed, we could get in there and isolate the line of code.

We moved computing power out of the mainframes and onto our desktops.

We managed DLLs and peripherals. We replaced cables and wires. We could solder.

We could tune cars without computers. Indeed we could diagnose without computers.

It is our kids and grandkids who don't understand tech. They have re-exported power from their desktops to the mainframes. They just assume that the AI and massive server farms will do what they need, when in reality AI just fantasises answers, and no-one can ever diagnose why it produces the answers it does, because no-one, literally no-one, understands the process the program has executed.

If something fails, whether a phone, a tablet, a car part or white goods, they simply replace whole modules until it works again. They can fix nothing.

Tech was the strong point of our generation, the Boomers. X, Y and Z can interact with it, but they don't understand it.

So, Boomers, age is no excuse, OK?

 

[Lovemyev]

You where lucky enough to be in at the start I guess.

 

[Aitch1]

I can't let that go.

I am a couple of years short of 70 and, ***, we were the generation that actually understood tech.

We understood how computers worked and we built them from parts.

When I first programmed it was FORTRAN, and Assembly for the bits FORTRAN couldn't do. If our software failed, we could get in there and isolate the line of code.

We moved computing power out of the mainframes and onto our desktops.

We managed DLLs and peripherals. We replaced cables and wires. We could solder.

We could tune cars without computers. Indeed we could diagnose without computers.

It is our kids and grandkids who don't understand tech. They have re-exported power from their desktops to the mainframes. They just assume that the AI and massive server farms will do what they need, when in reality AI just fantasises answers, and no-one can ever diagnose why it produces the answers it does, because no-one, literally no-one, understands the process the program has executed.

If something fails, whether a phone, a tablet, a car part or white goods, they simply replace whole modules until it works again. They can fix nothing.

Tech was the strong point of our generation, the Boomers. X, Y and Z can interact with it, but they don't understand it.

So, Boomers, age is no excuse, OK?

Well said TimothyN. I was born in 1940, making me 85 this year and you are so right. We were the generation that very rarely need help with anything. We were tinkering with crystal radios in the forties and making our own bikes, skateboards and push cars, (bogies) because A/ we couldn't afford to buy these things and B/ that how our dads taught us. When we could eventually afford to buy an old banger we kept them on the road without the need for diagnostics. In those days you could strip and rebuild a Ford engine with a handful of AF spanners. We grew up to be independent and fend for ourselves. And don't forget, when computers came popular in the 1980s there were no pictures or any interface until Windows was invented. Everything had to be typed out in BASIC before the computer came 'alive'. We were the 'Silent Generation', just before the Baby Boomers.

 

[GaryMG4]

Born in 1955 here, I guess it just depends on background. In my last years at school we had a primitive computer, an Olivetti Programmer 101 (I think). Its own symbolic language programmed onto magnetic cards with the output printed on a till tally roll. Went on to work in assembler and Cobol, dabbled with basic etc, these days I just want the tech to work!

 

[Lovemyev]

Same year Gary and your totally correct, it will tend to have more to do with your chosen path in life I guess ?.
I had permission to leave school before the end of term of my final year, because I had been offered the opportunity of a really strong 5 year apprenticeship, which are a thing of the past unfortunately.
This was primarily a full time hands on job with no exposure to computers etc and I loved it !.
At this point I had never even seen a computer, let alone used one !.
Everything was done on paper or verbally.
I don’t ever remember seeing a computer at college either, come to think of it.
Mobile phones or the internet was not a thing back then.
Of course as I became older, it soon became apparent that some basis tech knowledge as essential, and I just get through, mainly button bashing on times .
My son who is now 40 and has grown up to learn and embrace the technology.
It’s second nature to these people now.

 

[TimothyN]

I’m 1957. The first computer I actually saw was a CP/M desktop at school in about 1973, but the first time I really engaged was FORTRAN on punched cards on a teletype at Uni in the late 70s, and yet mice and GUIs (GEM, then Apple Mac) in employment in BT by the early 80s.