Anyone get the "Hey Toyota" feature to do anything?

I'm a first-time Tundra owner. I got off to a bad start as all the safety 'features' got in the way of me doing any real work. I've figured out how to shut some of that down now, but as I was driving one day I said to myself, "they should have a feature where you can say "Hey Toyota, put it in Truck mode." When I said "Hey Toyota," the truck 'woke up' and asked what I wanted to do. I said "put it in truck mode" but that of course did not work.

Since then, I've tried a bunch of commands, and it doesn't seem to understand anything.

Does anyone else use this feature? If so, what for?

 

Mine comes on at random moments with a non hey Toyota call

 

I haven't gotten it to do anything, whether it's a phone call or change the radio. It sure does like to come on at absolutely random times though.

I would rather disable the useless "feature"

 

Personally I just use wireless CarPlay. Hey Siri seems to be much smarter than Hey Toyota lol

 

Works well for me. I use it almost exclusive for NAV and audio controls.

 

I tried mine on the way home with the truck night I purchased it. I asked it to go to specific radio stations and it did no issues.

 

Mine came on when I was driving my brother in law around and he said “I hate Toyota”. That made me giggle.

 

Mine took me somewhere I did not want to go and never asked for. Now I just tell it to STFU and let me do the driving.

 

I use it to change XM stations. Directions she is not too smart.

 

I had mine give directions to nearest restaurant while on vacation. Works very well. Gives weather data though no radar maps.

 

Mine randomly comes on when I talk to my kids. Lol

 

Great on trips while driving. Find a rest area a specific hotel or whatever without hunt and peck in motion.
It does take a moment to get up the learning curve but there are lots of YouTube’s that can fast forward a user through it.

 

She doesn't sound to uplifting/happy when ya ask her for tasks.

 

I’ve never even tried this, i just use wireless CarPlay

 

I just hit the Mic button and speak and ignore this " Hey toyota" crap. Just say STARBUCKS....GAS....HOTEL....CARWASH , Nav will give you the options it finds then map you to it .

 

Name your kids Toyota ????

 

Or you can touch the TFT or the passenger (they have their own mic) can use voice activated and not have to touch anything. Optionality.

 

I dont see what touching my wife the passenger will do but I will give it a try. I know where I will touchLOL

 

Lol I think it might be when I try to get their attention with a “hey whataya doing?”

 

I use CarPlay as well, Google maps for Navi, so that is not interesting to me. I thought there might be some way to control more of the car, e.g. "close all the windows" or "set the temperature to 60 degrees."

 

Its not difficult at all if you know what you are doing! You really need to move on. Living RENT FREE in you

 

Every time I (or wife) have tried this, i get “that feature is not available”. Seems for safety sake that should be a biggie vs looking over and down to find a button to press.

 

Wish ppl could make a follow up video to that Toyota marketing guy who just raved about the new infotainment system by Toyota and how they do things differently that are better.

Take a poll guarantee majority of users are not using Toyota and using carplay or aa.

Car mfg need to stop spending millions developing their own infotainment system and just adopt carplay and aa.

It will be cheaper, Toyota does not need to offer head unit for 3 systems

 

I wasnt given 30 seconds of training on using this voice control system when I picked up my truck so I went searching on YT and found this guys video.
Way more control options than I've found listed anywhere else. Worth Watching

https://youtu.be/8GBT4_ea-AU

 

That's the same video I watched and I've been off to the races since then. I was driving around Manhattan and CT last week and it was spot of for directions, finding hotels, changing stations and so on. I'm either getting better with it or it's recognizing my voice better.

 

I was happy to learn I didnt have to wait to ask my question until it asked me what I want. Time saver for sure. I use Siri more often but this works well too ( until the free 1 yr NAV trial ends )

 

I use hey toyota alot

My favorite is hey toyota navigate to, ...