UVO Features

[ldj2018]

Am I missing out on anything with UVO outside of remote start and lock? It’s all I know it does outside of emergency calls. Anything else to it?

 

[Tellthemride]

That is pretty much the main features as you said. At least the ones most people will use it for.

List of everything else. You will need to pay monthly for the highest tiers to get anything useful.

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[winnw]

I've only had my Telly for a couple weeks but one feature that I think is UVO that I would miss is pressing voice recognition and saying a destination and having the NAV pull it up and get directions to it. Otherwise if I'm correct you have to say the exact address of where you're going or type it in. Not a huge deal but kinda nice when you're driving not to have to look up an address of somewhere you can't find and then put it in the nav. Someone can tell me if I'm wrong about that being one of the UVO features.

 

[Amati5]

Thx for the link. Unlikely I will renew after free trial but 2 things I may need is to close the windows and sunroof which are missing, not even just report the status.

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[RedTailedHawk]

That is pretty much the main features as you said. At least the ones most people will use it for.

List of everything else. You will need to pay monthly for the highest tiers to get anything useful.

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Connected Routing is really the only feature I would be interested in. The real-time traffic reporting is valuable to me. However, my understanding is that it does not work. Have you heard anything about real-time routing?

Even then though, why not just use Google Maps via Android Auto for this feature....(?)

 

[Tellthemride]

Connected Routing is really the only feature I would be interested in. The real-time traffic reporting is valuable to me. However, my understanding is that it does not work. Have you heard anything about real-time routing?

Even then though, why not just use Google Maps via Android Auto for this feature....(?)

Traffic info for UVO nav is updated via HD radio as far as I am aware, not cellular data.

The benefit of UVO subscription for nav is that you can search for POI’s not already loaded on-board. I believe with network it also allows the voice recognition and address search in general to work more fluid since it can rely on internet to decipher voice/text inputs.

However, without UVO subscription you should be able to use voice commands and address input perfectly fine. POI is limited to what is pre-loaded in the maps. Addresses have to be typed correctly to see the results.

 

[ronniebell]

I've only had my Telly for a couple weeks but one feature that I think is UVO that I would miss is pressing voice recognition and saying a destination and having the NAV pull it up and get directions to it. Otherwise if I'm correct you have to say the exact address of where you're going or type it in. Not a huge deal but kinda nice when you're driving not to have to look up an address of somewhere you can't find and then put it in the nav. Someone can tell me if I'm wrong about that being one of the UVO features.

But this feature (voice recognition and saying a destination) is available freely on Google Maps and/or Apple CarPlay. Both these are far superior to the Kia navigation software. I use both Apple CarPlay and Google Maps. They not only tell you distance to the destination, they tell you what's ahead, such as traffic jams, construction, slow downs, speed traps, etc. They automatically reroute you (asking you first) if there's a slowdown up ahead. Apple CarPlay shows street lights and stop signs ahead which I find very useful. Google Maps and Google Waze have incident reporting which allows you to report speed traps, slow downs, vehicles on shoulder, etc. to drivers behind you.

 

[yamahamt07]

Am I missing out on anything with UVO outside of remote start and lock? It’s all I know it does outside of emergency calls. Anything else to it?

Car location comes in handy. I can see how close my wife is to home before I have to kick my girlfriend out... Lol.....

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[acehawk]

Car location will come in handy. We just recently went to a hot air balloon festival here in Iowa and I forgot to take note of the aisle # we we're in. Luckily a friend of ours had car location on with their Toyota and they were parked next to us. He saved the day while I felt like an idiot. Never again!

 

[RedTailedHawk]

Traffic info for UVO nav is updated via HD radio as far as I am aware, not cellular data.

The benefit of UVO subscription for nav is that you can search for POI’s not already loaded on-board. I believe with network it also allows the voice recognition and address search in general to work more fluid since it can rely on internet to decipher voice/text inputs.

However, without UVO subscription you should be able to use voice commands and address input perfectly fine. POI is limited to what is pre-loaded in the maps. Addresses have to be typed correctly to see the results.

So, would traffic information (as well as radar(?)) be updated for non-UVO navigation routes as well using the HD Radio? It seems that it would. I'm in the process of reading through my manuals trying to piece everything together. It's all a bit of a jumble right now. I can't say I'm really clear on exactly what HD Radio is at this point.

 

[RedTailedHawk]

So, would traffic information (as well as radar(?)) be updated for non-UVO navigation routes as well using the HD Radio? It seems that it would. I'm in the process of reading through my manuals trying to piece everything together. It's all a bit of a jumble right now. I can't say I'm really clear on exactly what HD Radio is at this point.

As an update to my earlier post Tellthemride, I researched HD Radio and have a better understanding as to what it is and can see how the data received lends itself to be utilized by vehicles equipped to do so. I do faintly recall seeing an overlay of radar/traffic data over a navigation route during a somewhat hurried walkthrough of my Telluride's system by my sales associate. I was excited and pleased to see it.

But, alas, I still need to go out and try it though. Well, after a bit more research.

 

[HillCountry]

Car location will come in handy. We just recently went to a hot air balloon festival here in Iowa and I forgot to take note of the aisle # we we're in. Luckily a friend of ours had car location on with their Toyota and they were parked next to us. He saved the day while I felt like an idiot. Never again!

Apple Maps automatically records the location of my parked car -- really helpful if you already have an iPhone. Google Maps likely has an equivalent.

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[Retired-TELCO]

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