GPS Pairing
You can listen to voice instruction from Bluetooth GPS navigation. Some GPS systems use mobile phone profile (HFP, Hands-Free Profile) and others use stereo music profile (A2DP, Advanced Audio Distribution Profile). Most motorcycle specific GPS systems use mobile phone profile for turn-by-turn voice instruction. You can simultaneously use a mobile phone and a GPS which uses mobile phone profile by one of the following procedures.
Multipoint GPS Pairing
If you use GPS only for turn-by-turn voice instructions, not for Bluetooth stereo music streaming, multipoint pairing is recommended for the GPS connection. Multipoint Bluetooth pairing allows the SMH10 to connect two HFP devices at the same time: mobile phone and GPS navigation. Follow the steps below to pair the GPS using the multipoint pairing.
1. Turn on the headset and press the Jog Dial for 5 seconds until the red LED is rapidly flashing and you hear multiple beeps.
2. Within 2 seconds, tap the Phone Button again, then the LED turns to blue flashing and the beeps turn to high tone double beeps. You will hear a voice prompt saying “Multipoint pairing”.
3. Search for Bluetooth devices on the GPS navigation screen. Select the Sena SMH10 in the list of the devices detected on the GPS.
4. Enter 0000 for the PIN.
5. The GPS confirms that pairing has completed and the SMH10 is ready to use. You will hear a voice prompt from the SMH10 saying “Your headset is paired”.
6. If the pairing process is not completed within three minutes, the SMH10 will return to stand-by mode
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Chris Multipoint pairing is in the user manual . If you dont have one there is a PDF file on the Sena website that has all the instructions. It's not hard. I sugest you print it out and have it with you while standing next to the bike. Also for some reason everything seems to connect best if after pairing everything and you set out for a ride you start bike and turn on phone first then turn on the SMH 10 last. Dont ask me why LOL
Please visit this Garmin FAQ (link below). This has the list of Garmin GPS that are compatible with Bluetooth headsets. If your GPS is not listed, you won't be able to use this with a Bluetooth headset.
https://support.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?caseId=%7B04794b50-0c83-11dd-dc9c-000000000000%7D
The video does not apply to the R model. Is there an instructional video for the SMH10R?
First off, I do not have a phone to pair with the SMH10 and don't plan to have one at this time.
I have a Garmin 785T which will pair with the SMH10 as "media connected" and, if I'm not on intercom, I can hear the voice prompts. Turn on the intercom and no GPS comes through. I would have thought the GPS should take priority, so can this be achieved? I tried pairing it as a phone, but the GPS only puts out a 1234 code, which the Sena won't recognize. Only in "audio", on the GPS, can I get the 0000 code to show. Thank you.
After much to and fro with the Help Desk, trying many avenues that were a dead end, I stumbled on my problem and this may help others with pairing just a GPS for directional use along with intercom.
In the GPS menu of Bluetooth, you will see a "Friendly Name" box beside the Audio box. The Audio box is the one you want to use to pair your GPS, as the Phone box will only send out a 1234 code to the Sena, which doesn't work. Originally, when I was trying to pair the GPS, I looked in the Friendly box and saw my Nuvi model and serial number, but left it as it was. Later, trying other approaches, I thought maybe I should put the 0000 code in that box instead, but that got me no where as well.
Just now, I cleared that box leaving it EMPTY instead and presto - the GPS paired, showing the 0000 code on the screen by itself.
Hope that helps others with this problem that I have been trying to sort out for days!
@Andrey Did you fix your problem? I'm having the same issue..
@ToolkiT, it's impossible. I sold my GPS.
I asked the same question here and this was the answer I got . I have a 2015 R1200RT and a Sena SMH10 and this is what the people at sena told me. I copied and pasted it from their email back to me. It does work.
-SMH10 to Nav V as Multipoint(refer to User's Guide for pairing instructions)
-SMH10 to phone via Media Selective
-Phone to Nav V
-SMH10 to other Sena headsets via Intercom
The video (above) is for Zumi. I have a Nuvi 760 and am not having any success in getting the Nuvi 760 to "speak" to the SPH10.
Solution for BMW Navigator V, iPhone 6s, SM10 & SR10:
Normal phone pairing from SMH10 to Nav V,
Pair Nav V to iPhone,
THEN: go into Bluetooth settings on Nav V and de-select "media" while headset and phone connected.
Switch Bluetooth off on Nav V and iPhone,
Multi-point connect SR10 as a stand-alone unit for UHF only,
Media Select Pairing for SM10.
Turn everything off and reboot.
Turn everything on then the headset(s) last.
Stable and works great!
Glad it worked for you Chris. The above method you have just posted is only if you want to use the SR10? Is that correct? Or is it a better method than the one I posted?
The solution that Chris posted is for pairing the BMW NAV V, the SR10 and the SM10 to the SMH10 which is the correct steps to get everything paired together. Although, you didn't need to deselect "Media" from the Bluetooth settings on the NAV V as using the Media Selecting Pairing mode when pairing the SM10 to the SMH10 will automatically take away the stereo music Bluetooth profile from the NAV V which is considered "media" on that GPS.
Hello
I tested the Firmware-Update 4.2 , 4.2.1 and 5.0 on my Sena SMH10R
I have some Problems with my SENA SMH10R and the Voice form my Garmin Zumo550 when i hear music via Bluethooth from my Samsung Galaxy S3 .
If the Zumo will tell me some information ,i miss the first two words from the Zumo... sometimes it´s only a whisper and than the SENA shut off ...
This is only , whenn i hear music. If i only connect the Zumo and not the phone , the voice is ok... The Voice-Music-Problem exist with a HTC-phone and an other Garmin Zumo 550 ,too.
I think, the Problem ist not by Zumo or Phone...
This ist by the Version 4.2 and 4.2.1 .
With the Version 5.0 , i have the same Problems and some digital Audio-Problems , it sounds like a corrupt MP3-Sound with gitter-errors...but this is only in this constalation. The musicfiles are ok by hearing via phone-speaker...
Sometimes the Sena SMH10R shut off too. Sometimes it dosen´t connect to the Bluethoothdevices...
Is there anybody , who can help or know what to do ?
Sorry for my bad english... i´m from German..
Kai
Not all GPS with Bluetooth will work. The GPS need to support Bluetooth headsets. Some GPS will only work with Mobile Phones.
Help me.
My GPS (WinCE 6.0 4.3" device e.g. CVUG-TR53) can't connect to the SMH10 (fw. ver. 5.0.1), just shows me "The device connects fails" message.
But it connects to any other bluetooth handsfree without problems.
I'm totally blanking on this problem.
My Sena Smh10 will not pair with my Garmin Zumo 660. I have the newest firmware update. The Garmin finds the sena then tells me my passcode is 1234 then the screen says pairing failed. Any ideas? Thanks!
@Dheller: The SMH10 needs to be paired under the Audio option in the Bluetooth settings menu and not the Phone option.
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