I can't help you fellas with your Sena units. I have Cardo PackTalk Bold. My 3 riding buddies and I have these units and they work ok for what we want. We can communicate, which is important. I can listen to music off my phone, so that's good on trips. I can listen to my bike radio on local rides, so that's good. I just updated to the PackTalk NEO and have not set it up yet. I do not have WHIM, but did install the "bypass connector" under the fairing. Not so much for the PackTalks, but had intentions of using a different GPS app off my phone rather than the HD Ride Planner.
To me the important part was to have comm with my riding buddies. Which works. Glad to hear you all are getting your systems going or are happy with them. These are great units.
And NO!! I do not wish to talk on my phone when riding my bike!!! I'll give you a call or text when we stop! Just give me my music and comm with buddies!!!

 

To alkindji : Yes, both the rider and the passenger should be able to listen to the same channel, be it the stock radio or Serious XM or the IPOD.
when you speak, the music should be interrupted as soon as you speak.

 

Well no you do not need HD branded. Even my old Q3 Cardo will connect with the WHIM..
You are right no stereo and most of the other functions to control head sets will not work with hand controls.

 

Agreed, I have the HD branded Sena 30 and the non HD Sena 20s Evo and both work for intercom on my Street Glide but the 20s doesn’t get stereo quality music….
The Sena 20sEvo was mounted to my helmet when I picked up the bike and it was working within minutes of the first attempt…
After reviewing posts here I immediately understood it doesn’t get stereo due to firmware

I haven’t gotten the music to play in the background through the Whim yet while using intercom though….if anyone has, please message me and let me know how
Thanks

 

Tap the M button on both headsets once to start a mesh intercom. This is how you enable an open mesh intercom (meaning anyone with a suitable headset can join); they'll automatically find each other and it works even if you walk away from the bike, such as into a gas station. You can still change a lot of settings like VOX sensitivity or audio volume adjustment for speed through the head unit individually for the two headsets (rider and passenger). To turn the open mesh into a closed group, hold down the M button for 5 seconds on both headsets.
Here's the manual:
https://oem.sena.com/harley-davidson..._en_220209.pdf
Scroll to section 7.2: Starting Mesh Intercom
7.4.1: Creating a Group Mesh

There are other neat features you get with the H-D head unit, such as audio overlays where when you VOX activate the intercom the music fades into the background but navigation prompts will break in.

 

Did you enable and pair it?

 

I’ve used the HD Sena 30S both ways: intercom with passenger and paired BT, separate from the bike with me and passenger. We prefer using BT vs. the bike’s intercom. It’s clearer with less distortion and I can use my phone music through the bike and she can use her phone’s music for herself.

 

I went down and the guy got the intercom to work, however, nothing else seems to be working as it should really. It will take some more work on my part to sort it out. When I first paired my original 50S and used the Apple CarPlay, I was able to play music through the phone and listen to it through the fairing/bike speakers and control volume and tracks with the left thumb switch. I could receive and send phone calls and texts adjusting volume with the same left thumb switch... the right thumb switch moved the cursor around for selecting items.

Once I paired the second 50S, and went down the intercom rabbit hole, things changed. Now when I start the system up - I don't even hear the female voice in my ear say "Hello." I can, with difficulty sometimes, get the music to play through the bike speakers but I cannot control the volume with the left thumb switch - I just get a loud beep through the helmet speakers when I trigger the switch. The switch DOES affect the volume of phone calls which properly come through the helmet speakers though. Text messages do not read (text to voice) over CarPlay at all into my helmet speakers (or bike speakers for that matter - you can see on the display that CarPlay is reading them out loud, it just is not reaching the speakers.

I've read the Sena manual and the Boom manual - now I'm going to look to YouTube LOL.

 

 

If you pair a rider headset to the GTS with a WHIM do not pair it directly to the phone.

Phone pairs to GTS via Bluetooth
Headset pairs to GTS via WHIM menu choice

This will enable the GTS to control functions with the hand controls. There is an audio routing function to select where each speaker out should direct.

For a passenger:
DO NOT pair the to the GTS via Bluetooth
Pair headset to GTS via WHIM menu choice
Pair their phone to the headset using the headset secondary phone choice

If the headset were not bought as a dual set, paired to each other from the factory, you will need to do the headset pairing function.

For rider to passenger comms you can use the GTS intercom function. Then you can both hear the GTS audio, like music playing, but it will lower the volume when you chat.

An6 comm function on the headset directly - Bluetooth headset to headset, Mesh, Phone - will have a higher priority that the GTS intercom/music and will silence the GTS while in use.