ID.3 1st - voice control

[SteveH]

I was under the impression that all ID.3 models with dual zone climate control can control it through voice commands, so that includes the ID.3 1st. Telling my 1st to "defog windows" (voice command) has always given me a "this function is currently unavailable" response, so I contacted VW a couple of months ago about it and after running through some debugging they told me to take it to a dealer. Its in the dealer today to have the broken SOS comms unit replaced (pulling fuse 19 didn't help), so asked if they could have a look at the voice control too and they seem pretty unclear on whether that feature is even supposed to be present on the 1st.

Other climate related voice commands, such as "ventilation off" work, and "defog windows" is listed in the help screen for voice control commands.. Does anyone else know if this should work on the 1st?

(Rant: it really should tell you *why* a function is unavailable, and the help screen shouldn't list commands that aren't supported by your car).

[Bromsgroveuser]

Mines exactly the same , it's never worked and checked to day and got exactly the same message , the voice control in general is rubbish

[ItshardtobuyId3]

I asked mine to set the temperature to 20 degrees and after about 5 minutes it told me that can’t be controlled by voice command… which is odd as I’ve seen it done on YouTube. It’s slow bloody slow doing anything it’s rendered pretty useless anyway though.

[Deleted User 314]

Works fine here but you really need a good mobile signal. "my feet are cold", "my passenger is cold" etc etc.

But it is SO slow it's hilarious.

[Iainicorn]

Mine doesn’t work either. Hope there’s a solution soon

[ItshardtobuyId3]

Works fine here but you really need a good mobile signal. "my feet are cold", "my passenger is cold" etc etc.

But it is SO slow it's hilarious.

It looks like all the voice processing is happening “in the cloud” but VW have a minimal amount of computers in their cloud. Google, Apple and Amazon had these problems but they are now way ahead.

I’m a bit worried VW has made a massive mistake trying to be better at software than the likes of Google. The systems in cars like the new Megan and Nissan Ariya look great. VW seem to be struggling to get the car to do basic tasks like charge scheduling.

I think the ID3 is a fantastic car but I’m starting to worry it’s a Blackberry about a month after the first iPhone. They cannot and never will be able to outdo Google on software.

[Utumno]

Mildly hilarious you mention BlackBerry negatively. BlackBerry QNX is one of the best automotive hypervisors and has been for many years. It’s likely the hypervisor supporting many Android Automotive vehicle experiences is from BlackBerry

VW’s insistence on building its own ground-up OS stack right down to the hypervisor was a brave decision but I fear it has been under resourced.

[van]

Anyone else noticed that her voice starts to sound rather irritated the more you try to to get her to understand what you want? Maybe my imagination

[Utumno]

Anyone else noticed that her voice starts to sound rather irritated the more you try to to get her to understand what you want? Maybe my imagination

Are you talking about the car here ? I'm not sure

[monkeyhanger]

Anyone else noticed that her voice starts to sound rather irritated the more you try to to get her to understand what you want? Maybe my imagination

Are you talking about the car here ? I'm not sure

I know that feeling - spent 4 hours yesterday dismantling an old deck and slide platform, cutting all the wood into manageable pieces and getting it to the tip in the car. The wife's take on it was moaning that she had to cook the kids' tea instead of me!

[OB1CCFC]

The voice control is shocking. I took it off a year ago and am the better for it. Especially re the accidental activations (my eye pain has reduced significantly since my eye rolling stopped)…