[limeypride]

Does anyone know where the camera(s) is(are) located that track our hand gestures? I've had gesture control on 4 cars now and have grown to use it without thinking but this car is fussy and I'm trying to figure out why.

[Resjudicata]

Originally Posted by limeypride

Does anyone know where the camera(s) is(are) located that track our hand gestures? I've had gesture control on 4 cars now and have grown to use it without thinking but this car is fussy and I'm trying to figure out why.

Roof. In the upper part where the lights and roof above windshield.

[limeypride]

Originally Posted by Resjudicata

Roof. In the upper part where the lights and roof above windshield.

Thx.

Do you know specifically which piece? For example, is it the weird blue light or is there a camera beneath a piece of transparent plastic? Something else?

[Polishmike]

I've really want to see how Italians cope with the gesture controls

[Resjudicata]

Originally Posted by limeypride

Thx.

Do you know specifically which piece? For example, is it the weird blue light or is there a camera beneath a piece of transparent plastic? Something else?

it's in that part that I circled in red.

[Bimmersandmopars]

That caca was driving me crazy in the M8GC..... too sensitive and had to shut that down.

[Resjudicata]

specifically that camera in the overhead.

camera circled in blue and green.

[NVRfollo]

Originally Posted by Bimmersandmopars

That caca was driving me crazy in the M8GC..... too sensitive and had to shut that down.

The nagging reminders are even more annoying

[limeypride]

Originally Posted by NVRfollo

The nagging reminders are even more annoying

What reminders?

[limeypride]

Originally Posted by Resjudicata

specifically that camera in the overhead.

camera circled in blue and green.

Thanks!

[NVRfollo]

Originally Posted by limeypride

What reminders?

The message on the screen on how to do the associated gesture when you use the buttons instead

[Tenac]

Originally Posted by NVRfollo

The message on the screen on how to do the associated gesture when you use the buttons instead

I think you can turn that off?

[limeypride]

Originally Posted by NVRfollo

The message on the screen on how to do the associated gesture when you use the buttons instead

Ah, you can turn that off. Can't recall where off the cuff but it's in there.

[bloozemanAZ]

Originally Posted by limeypride

Ah, you can turn that off. Can't recall where off the cuff but it's in there.

Originally Posted by limeypride

Ah, you can turn that off. Can't recall where off the cuff but it's in there.

If memory serves the setting is under the gesture control area in which you can define the two configurable gestures, e.g., the fist open/close which defaults to navigation to a stored home address.

[Draxxas]

I have a 2019 850i and I shut mine off. It wasn't bad but I didn't need it nor like it. However I had a 2021 840i for a loaner for 3 weeks while something on my car was being fixed and it's gesture control was way more sensitive than mine, drove me nuts!

[Resjudicata]

Originally Posted by Draxxas

I have a 2019 850i and I shut mine off. It wasn't bad but I didn't need it nor like it. However I had a 2021 840i for a loaner for 3 weeks while something on my car was being fixed and it's gesture control was way more sensitive than mine, drove me nuts!

my glad my 2019 w m850i convertible doesn't have it.

[limeypride]

Originally Posted by Draxxas

I have a 2019 850i and I shut mine off. It wasn't bad but I didn't need it nor like it. However I had a 2021 840i for a loaner for 3 weeks while something on my car was being fixed and it's gesture control was way more sensitive than mine, drove me nuts!

I love it. Use it everyday without thinking.

[Al Pinã]

Originally Posted by limeypride

I love it. Use it everyday without thinking.

Same here. At first I wrote it off as a gimmick mainly to impress passengers, but on long drives I use it quite often to skip music tracks and adjust volume.

[bloozemanAZ]

Originally Posted by ALPINA_DREAMS

Same here. At first I wrote it off as a gimmick mainly to impress passengers, but on long drives I use it quite often to skip music tracks and adjust volume.

Originally Posted by limeypride

I love it. Use it everyday without thinking.

Couldn't agree more as prior to taking possession of the M850i I wasn't sure if it was a gimmick or not given some reviewers stated it as such. However, at this point I too use the gestures every time I'm in the car without even thinking. Most often being volume control and skip tracks which ironically on the latter I try to do even when listening to Ozzy's Boneyard and than realize I'm not on my SSD music source.

Other faves are to dismiss a call (only the wife's calls are answered) and the mute (two finger peace sign) when I'm on the phone with the wife. Then there is the rare fist/fingers to navigate home when I'm some where in town I'm unfamiliar with and just want to find the best route home.

Granted some of this took a while to get used to, e.g., for the mute I used to do the two finger point towards the iDrive screen which was very hit or miss. Nope the answer is a stationary hand and extending the two fingers (aka peace sign) under the gesture control camera. Same goes for all the rest, i.e., skip a track back start stationary with your thumb pointed to the left and then do the motion.

[yk7]

Originally Posted by limeypride

I love it. Use it everyday without thinking.

Same here, super useful while driving. Love that feature. My buddy got a 2022 but his gesture control feature kept malfunctioning, he went to the dealer and they had to order him a new unit. Super disapointing for sure, brand new $146k car. He is waiting for over a month for the part.

[limeypride]

Originally Posted by yk7

Same here, super useful while driving. Love that feature. My buddy got a 2022 but his gesture control feature kept malfunctioning, he went to the dealer and they had to order him a new unit. Super disapointing for sure, brand new $146k car. He is waiting for over a month for the part.

Same same same.

I've found mine works, though, and perfectly if I perform some of the gestures as though I'm reaching and pointing for/toward the passenger side mirror (volume and fist gestures).