Boom GTS 2022 - wireless carplay?
Boom GTS 2022 - wireless carplay?
Hi, do I just need to buy any of these Bluetooth dongles, plug it in into the USB cable on the batwing and there I go - I'll get wireless carplay? Or - that'd be too easy and there's some other way? Thanks for your thoughts!
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You need to have an actual WHIM or a plug that tricks bike into thinking that it has microphone connected, then you need to have your BCM flashed to have WHIM module enabled.
To get full functionality from CarPlay, you need to add a WHIM (Wireless Headset Interface Module) and then add a Harley Stamped Sena Headset. The problem you are going to have is that Harley is no longer selling the Sena Headsets. The other option is to add a CarPlay jumper, which will allow CarPlay to be projected to your Boombox. The limitation with this option is that you will not have voice control capability. A third option is to add a WHIM and any other headset other than the Harley-stamped Sena. This works with limited functionality; the most significant is that you will not get stereo sound.
Thanks. I thought there's carplay right there if you connect your phone via that USB cable maybe without voice capabilites.
So, I thought - not to have to connect to that USB each time (I got a wireless charger) - I'd just buy a dongle that connects my phone to this USB port via Bluetooth.
I do not need the voice capabilities.
I'm doing it as I want to tell my team to make me a simple app for carplay that will display basic data on bike's screen (weather data, GPS, some bike data - something I had on my GS.) - I don't need this screen for anything else, the navi I do through my phone anyway.
HD multimedia system is awefully bad designed, why can't I have altitude, air temp, tires pressure on one screen, how ridiculous that is. And even altitude and air temp is with such small font, I can barely see it. This whole boobbox is real crap in terms of GUI.
That's why I was doing it.
So, I thought - not to have to connect to that USB each time (I got a wireless charger) - I'd just buy a dongle that connects my phone to this USB port via Bluetooth.
I do not need the voice capabilities.
I'm doing it as I want to tell my team to make me a simple app for carplay that will display basic data on bike's screen (weather data, GPS, some bike data - something I had on my GS.) - I don't need this screen for anything else, the navi I do through my phone anyway.
HD multimedia system is awefully bad designed, why can't I have altitude, air temp, tires pressure on one screen, how ridiculous that is. And even altitude and air temp is with such small font, I can barely see it. This whole boobbox is real crap in terms of GUI.
That's why I was doing it.
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Thanks. I thought there's carplay right there if you connect your phone via that USB cable maybe without voice capabilites.
So, I thought - not to have to connect to that USB each time (I got a wireless charger) - I'd just buy a dongle that connects my phone to this USB port via Bluetooth.
I do not need the voice capabilities.
I'm doing it as I want to tell my team to make me a simple app for carplay that will display basic data on bike's screen (weather data, GPS, some bike data - something I had on my GS.) - I don't need this screen for anything else, the navi I do through my phone anyway.
HD multimedia system is awefully bad designed, why can't I have altitude, air temp, tires pressure on one screen, how ridiculous that is. And even altitude and air temp is with such small font, I can barely see it. This whole boobbox is real crap in terms of GUI.
That's why I was doing it.
So, I thought - not to have to connect to that USB each time (I got a wireless charger) - I'd just buy a dongle that connects my phone to this USB port via Bluetooth.
I do not need the voice capabilities.
I'm doing it as I want to tell my team to make me a simple app for carplay that will display basic data on bike's screen (weather data, GPS, some bike data - something I had on my GS.) - I don't need this screen for anything else, the navi I do through my phone anyway.
HD multimedia system is awefully bad designed, why can't I have altitude, air temp, tires pressure on one screen, how ridiculous that is. And even altitude and air temp is with such small font, I can barely see it. This whole boobbox is real crap in terms of GUI.
That's why I was doing it.
Wireless car play is just the ability not to have to plug in your phone to get CarPlay. Handy if you don't want to over charge your phone by having it constantly be connected to a USB cable.
CarPlay Ultra, which is not yet available, has the deeper integration with the vehicle you're looking for, and only a handful of car manufacturers have announced support for it when it comes out later this year. I'm not aware of any motorcycle companies that have announced support for CarPlay Ultra, but I could be wrong.
Last edited by Keithhu; Jun 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM.
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