Siri and In-Car Bluetooth

Punkwaffle

Punkwaffle

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So does anyone here know if you can use one of the buttons on the steering wheel on a built-in bluetooth system can activate Siri?

It's a 2011 Hyundai Sonata if that helps.
 
I really hope so

Im wondering the same thing. It would be awesome to be able to hit the phone button on my car and say "siri" and be able to talk to my phone. I have a feeling though that it will be necessary to use either the iPhone headset or another with inline controls.
 
Should work OK, your car is acting as a headset - so no different from voice dialing is with the IP4, which works fine in my car. I suppose not all Bluetooth implementations work the same way so you'll need to test it to be sure.
 
I'd have thought so too, though if I hold in the call button in my car, it doesn't activate the voice commands so I wonder if Siri now responds to it when voice commands didn't...
 
using the chevy cruze if I say bluetooth and then voice command it launched my iphones voice command... with a slight delayed voice response
 
I can't even get it to work with my 2011 Hyundai Sonata 2.0t. When I press the home button, the Siri screen comes up on my iPhone, but the Nav screen on my Sonata shows it dialing my own phone number as if it's trying to dial voicemail (if I go to the actual Recent Calls screen on my iPhone afterwards, it doesn't show that the phone dialed at all).

The Siri "prompt" plays through the speakers, but it doesn't respond to any voice commands that I say.

Now if I just use the standard voice commands using the call button on the steering wheel, it will dial numbers normally. But Siri is a complete bust which is really disappointing.

I'm using iOS 5.0.1 BTW.
 
On my headunit, if I have the iPhone bluetoothed, the home button activates the Siri, but Siri won't be able to hear me because the microphone on the iPhone is turned off (because its Bluetoothed) and since I've activated siri via the phone (and not the car) the microphone on the headunit is not turned on either.

So to make it work I can go through my headunits menu to hit the voice dial button or there's a hidden shortcut where if I hold down the menu button on the faceplate the voice dial (which is just Siri in my case) activates. It's really weird that my remote doesn't have a button for that, but it does have the phone button where it goes through the headunits dial methods. Look at the manual so you can double check all the buttons different functions in your vehicle. Its probably hidden in there like mine was.
 
Its really interesting you all are talking about sonata's, my car just crapped out on me and I was going to get a 2012 sonata...

how are they, and let me know if you make any headway on the siri issue
 
crap

not sure on the hyunday integration, but on VW, when i press the home button on the iPhone, siri comes through the speakers

but ... when i just press steering wheel button, vw's system comes on (different then siri - thus sux, 100% more)

apple - take note, an option either way in the future pls?

ps: i found the bluetooth integration to be better with siri (then dock connector), but ... it's ******* up on iOS vr 5+ - the volume is either off or all the way up (supposedly 5.1 fixes this). i've decided to stick to 4.3.3 on my ipad & it works perfectly: ff / rw, volume control, etc
 
On my Subaru Outback Siri does come over the speakers, but I have to press and hold the home button for a second or two to activate. When it does activate, it uses the car's bluetooth speakers/microphone.

I'm not sure if there's a "Voice Command" to activate Siri like was mentioned above. I'll play around.
 
I have a JVC headunit, with the bluetooth adapter and mic under my steering wheel. Siri works like it should, but it's not near as good as using it on the phone itself. The noise cancelling, etc, just isn't there. Really need to stress words and talk in an unnatural way for it to be understood.
 
I have a Pioneer head unit. I press the Home button on the phone, I see SIRI and then my HU starts calling my voicemail.
 
Siri works just fine through the Bluetooth on a Civic, but has to be activated from holding the button down on my iPhone itself, which isn't really much of a nuisance.
 
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