Weather conditions display

RobinLegin · 01-16-2022, 08:26 AM

Like many of us I have had limited use of my car thanks to the Covid restrictions. Usually on a journey, the infotainment screen will show me the general weather conditions for the area in which I am travelling. This function seems to have disappeared or at least I have forgotten how to bring it up.

Please can someone remind me how to? Thanks in advance.

oakey46 · 01-16-2022, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by RobinLegin

Like many of us I have had limited use of my car thanks to the Covid restrictions. Usually on a journey, the infotainment screen will show me the general weather conditions for the area in which I am travelling. This function seems to have disappeared or at least I have forgotten how to bring it up.

Please can someone remind me how to? Thanks in advance.

Try, with ignition on, pressing the lower right button on your steering wheel spoke and say “Weather for (wherever you want to hear)”. That works on my X1. Or are you out of the ‘free’ 3 year period?

RobinLegin · 01-22-2022, 07:57 AM

I'm out of the 3 year warranty period, and have purchased another year's subscription for GBP69 (known as package M). It took ages to download the new data for maps etc via the BMW Download and then transferring this to a memory stick (64GB). It then took another hour or so downloading this to the car via the car USB port. The car will accept inputs for locations, but the other elements such as weather forecasts, life traffic updates at the moment are missing for now.

When I click into "Connected Drive", I get a message that these items have expired for my car - yet I have just downloaded etc.

e30lover318i · 01-22-2022, 10:31 AM

I believe the connected drive service requires you to pay for a “subscription” my weather has also been gone for a few months. In the past the network for some of the vehicles were retired so for instance my F25 was completely unable to use the connected drive service because the network was NLA. I’d say if it’s something you can’t live without perhaps look into adding apple car play or screen mirroring? You could still check weather on the fly via your phone on idrive display … but this isn’t a solution to your actual problem just another option.

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RobinLegin Private First Class 37 Rep 153 Posts Drives: BMW X1 Xline 2i petrol Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: Dorset iTrader: (0)	Weather conditions display Like many of us I have had limited use of my car thanks to the Covid restrictions. Usually on a journey, the infotainment screen will show me the general weather conditions for the area in which I am travelling. This function seems to have disappeared or at least I have forgotten how to bring it up. Please can someone remind me how to? Thanks in advance.
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RobinLegin Private First Class 37 Rep 153 Posts Drives: BMW X1 Xline 2i petrol Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: Dorset iTrader: (0)	I'm out of the 3 year warranty period, and have purchased another year's subscription for GBP69 (known as package M). It took ages to download the new data for maps etc via the BMW Download and then transferring this to a memory stick (64GB). It then took another hour or so downloading this to the car via the car USB port. The car will accept inputs for locations, but the other elements such as weather forecasts, life traffic updates at the moment are missing for now. When I click into "Connected Drive", I get a message that these items have expired for my car - yet I have just downloaded etc.
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e30lover318i Second Lieutenant 79 Rep 211 Posts Drives: E30,E34T,E46,F48 Join Date: Dec 2019 Location: RI iTrader: (0)	I believe the connected drive service requires you to pay for a “subscription” my weather has also been gone for a few months. In the past the network for some of the vehicles were retired so for instance my F25 was completely unable to use the connected drive service because the network was NLA. I’d say if it’s something you can’t live without perhaps look into adding apple car play or screen mirroring? You could still check weather on the fly via your phone on idrive display … but this isn’t a solution to your actual problem just another option.
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