I discovered something neat today!
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I discovered something neat today!
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.
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.
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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
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
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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?
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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
https://mbworld.org/forums/new-s-cla...e-buttons.html
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Thread Starter
MBWorld Fanatic!
Joined: Feb 2014
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From: Iowa
2025 EQS580
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
https://mbworld.org/forums/new-s-cla...e-buttons.html
Thanks Hyperion!
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