Hello, I am looking into an RT Limited. I am curious as to hose the Bluetooth works. I understand the Garmin GPS is Bluetooth and you can use that to place calls from your phone and listen to your radio. Do you still need something like a Scala system for your helmet? How do you communicate bike to bike? Rider to Rider? With so many Bluetooth devices, which is the one ring to rule them all? Thanks. Just trying to understand how this puzzle goes together.
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Question about RT LTD and Bluetooth communication
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Indyron
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Get a Sena...
Get a Sena system (www.revzilla.com) for your helmet then link it to your GPS and smart phone to the GPS. All done now go ride!
Get a Sena system (www.revzilla.com) for your helmet then link it to your GPS and smart phone to the GPS. All done now go ride!
Any major differences between the Sena and the Scala?
What makes the Sena or Scala better than the other?
Highwayman2013
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Talk to Motorcycle Dave a spnsor on this site he can help with questions on the Sena units.
Pennyrick
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You can go the factory CD route but that is incredibly expensive and the folks on the other end need to have CB capability.
Sena is a much better system than Scala (we have used both) for clarity and ease of operation. Sena can accommodate up to four users or you can just use it for an individual helmet. It's blue tooth capability let's you use bluetooth to tie into your smart phone, pair up to another user, tie into an MP3 player or the GPS.
Signals to the Sena unit work in priority sequence and the order is.... mobile phone (GPS), intercom, music. For example music is interrupted by intercom; intercom is interrupted by GPS and GPS is interrupted by incoming phone call.
Any major differences between the Sena and the Scala?
So, when communicating bike to bike, do you link the Sena's to each other or do you link your partner to your GPS? Can these things all talk to multiple devices?
So, when communicating bike to bike, do you link the Sena's to each other or do you link your partner to your GPS? Can these things all talk to multiple devices?
Pennyrick
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The Sena units pair to each other, using Blue Tooth. If you want to include another rider or passenger in on a phone call you just tap the 'jog' button and it becomes a three way conversation. You do the same thing to include a third Sena user.
You can also use what is called Multipoint pairing to pair up for multiple users for GPS or other devices.
retirednick
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I was wondering if you already have a headset for your helmet(s)? As Bluetooth comes in several 'flavours' from the manufacturers, it really helps to understand what it is that is important to yourself. I chose Sena as it has a range of different headset styles so you can match the set to your favourite helmet. Range is an issue in this spectrum of wireless (2400 - 2483.5 Mhz) as the chips are in the mw spec to save on battery power. You can communicate to multiple headsets as Sena does allow pairing for 4 headsets, and has a priority interupt system so that you don't miss the important bit.
Another observation, it may be that the human race in general is overcomplicating our lives with all this technology. I still leave my phone off when I am on the Spyder and my wife and I like to look at a paper map when out and about.
Another observation, it may be that the human race in general is overcomplicating our lives with all this technology. I still leave my phone off when I am on the Spyder and my wife and I like to look at a paper map when out and about.
SPYDERFUZZ
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I have hearing aides that are Bluetooth. Very smart also. I turned on my GPS that came with my :spyder2:RT Limited and it paired right up by it self. I it also takes incoming calls but I have to stop to call out. If I set my phone to automatic answer I can then talk but have not figured out how to talk because of the wind. Maybe if I explained something it would help. I got the Bluetooth so I could hear the phone thru a streamer I ware around my neck so all I have to do is push a button on it and I can talk. It works my TV also and can turn the sound off and it comes in thru my hearing aides and doesn't bother anyone. They were very expensive $8,000. Someone asked my wife when I first got then if I could hear her when she talked she said " yes I only have to repeat myself two times instead of 4 or 5.
It used to bother me because I couldn't hear, but now that I can't remember it doesn't bother me, I wouldn't remember what you said anyway.
I have hearing aides that are Bluetooth. Very smart also. I turned on my GPS that came with my :spyder2:RT Limited and it paired right up by it self. I it also takes incoming calls but I have to stop to call out. If I set my phone to automatic answer I can then talk but have not figured out how to talk because of the wind. Maybe if I explained something it would help. I got the Bluetooth so I could hear the phone thru a streamer I ware around my neck so all I have to do is push a button on it and I can talk. It works my TV also and can turn the sound off and it comes in thru my hearing aides and doesn't bother anyone. They were very expensive $8,000. Someone asked my wife when I first got then if I could hear her when she talked she said " yes I only have to repeat myself two times instead of 4 or 5.
It used to bother me because I couldn't hear, but now that I can't remember it doesn't bother me, I wouldn't remember what you said anyway.
I have not purchased yet. Due to interoperability, I am having trouble deciding which one to get. My reading says I am more likely to find a Scala compatible device than one of the others. Who knows how true that is (but it was on the interwebs)... I know one of my buddies I'll be riding with has the Scala, so that may or may not be my deciding factor.
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