Amazingly, by accident, I found out today what Hyperion was talking about on the annoyances topic. I think this deserves its own topic.

I have had the keypad cover hidden underneath the console the past several days. In other words, the keypad has been exposed. Today while doing some errands around town, I rested the palm of my right hand on the keypad, but not really applying any pressure at all. All of a sudden, on the left side of the command screen what shows up but a bunch of favorite radio stations on the numbered keypad. For example, the NFL radio was showing up on number 7 and other stations on different numbers. So, when I would press a number the appropriate station would chime in.

But that's not all. I decided to press the favorites key on the upper center of the keypad and a different set of favorites such as seat, massaging, type of music, etc., etc. show up. I think this is really neat and very much unadvertised. Rather than fiddling around on the command screen, all one has to do is press a number on the keypad for one of your favorites.

I don't know if this was something I set up (when I bought the car) on the command screen which then goes to the keypad or what. I don't remember doing so. But in any case, it is a great feature. I am going to do a little more research the next few days by messing around on the command screen to see if this can be programmed there. I thought I knew everything about my car after owning it for a year, but I guess I don't.

 

Great reminder! I need to take some time to review this function too. Have had the car for 1.5 years and there are still things I don't know. Eek

 

My new S550 has the touch pad instead of the keypad. Don't know if I will ever master it.
Michael in Arizona

 

that's good bean!
it's funny that you can't just press a button for something, instead we need to call up a menu and then cycle through the options........like the seats, the climate control etc.......


makes the secondary keypad buttons invaluable imo


in's very simple in my CLS.........one button on /off.............no cycling through menus LOL

 

Have only used touch pad to change radio stations or change tracks. Easier to use arrows on steering wheel. Touch pad....don't think I'll use it much if at all.

 

Okay boys and girls, help me out here. I tried to find out how the favorites are programmed for the keypad today from the command screen and came up empty. I now remember vaguely that about a year ago I did something with favorites, but I have no idea how I did it. Today, I was on Sirius/XM and tried to somehow declare favorites, but I could not find such an option. When you click on options at bottom of the screen, there is NO favorites possibility. I get two distinct screens when I touch the keypad: One has favorite radio stations from Sirius/XM and the other is composed of some music options, the seat positions, massage, and a couple other things that escape my memory right now.. I have no idea how I did this about a year ago. Does anyone here know how?

 

page 52 in the command manual.........this is for a 2015 car I think, but may be similar to our 14's

https://mbworld.org/forums/new-s-cla...e-buttons.html

 

Oh yes. How stupid of me. I was approaching this from the wrong angle. I need to go to vehicle settings and not from satellite radio, etc. I think I can easily figure it out now.

Thanks Hyperion!