Alrighty, so a little update on the 5 blink indicator. Using the latest bimmercode, I set the tippblinken to 5 in the simple mode as I mentioned in my previous post. That by itself didn't work, and the indicator would only go 3 times. The option in iDrive was also 1 or 3 clicks, no option to select 5.
On my 2018 October production X1, additionally, I needed to go into expert mode in bimmercode, in the Headunit (HU_NBT_EVO) ECU, and then into 3000 HMI. In there, you want
"5_FACH_TIPPBLINKEN". This option needs to be set to Aktiv.
This enables the 5 blink option in iDrive. I set the 5 blinks in iDrive and can confirm it works