SENA SMH10 issue

I ran mine yesterday and again only got about 8 hrs out of it. I run the volume pretty high. I also updated the firmware to it. (Sena beta test version) Do you suppose that has anything to do with decreased battery life? I have its mate that I haven't updated yet so I will see if there is any difference when I get the chance.

Rod
 
I'm a novice regarding bluetooth use, so please bear with me. All I want to do is pair my Zumo 550 with my Bel 65 radar detector. I don't use my phone or intercom, since I usually ride alone. Do you have to hard wire the detector or can they both be wireless? I sent Sena an email asking the question but haven't gotten an answer back from them. Since I don't play music, I'm assuming the SMH10 will be fine. Any help on what I need would be appreciated!f
 
I'm a novice regarding bluetooth use,,,,snip,,,,,,,,,,,, Any help on what I need would be appreciated!f


Grabdog1.... Re BT and Sena; Not an easy answer... depend on the units you want to link.
given;
1) It is a 1 to 1 link. You cannot link a BT transmitter to more than one receiver at a time
2) The Sena SMH10 has really ONLY 3 BT links built into it A) HST ..mono/hands free for phone usu B) A2DP.. stereo/ usu use for music but can be used for mono if need be C) Intercom link
3) Not all BT units connect with other BT units due to protocall spec variations

So, If you link the Zumo ( which I assume should work as many zumos do, others here will help) to the sena, I believe it links as A2DP ( because the mp3 player built in). That leaves the HST link available... I don't think the radar is HST and you can't use the earjack to direct wire as it overides the A2DP (priority level)... Only option here is if there is an external BT dongle(transmitter) in HST... Have seen them for A2DP( I use one ) but not for HST.

Hope your not all confused now! :)
 
I have struggled with trying to get my radar detector and my GPS/MP3 to work simultaneously via my Sena SMH10. According to Sena tech support, it cannot be done. Only one or the other will work and if a signal is coming in (eg. music) the other (eg. radar) will not. My solution is to hard wire the GPS/MP3 unit and the radar detector to a bluetooth transmitter (I use Sena's SM10 but you can use others) and then pair the transmitter with the headset. This way both will come through at the same time. ie if music is playing the radar signal will come through as well.

A relatively inexpensive way to do this is to use Belkins Rock star
http://www.amazon.ca/Belkin-Rocksta...798&sr=8-1&keywords=belkin+headphone+splitter

as a hub and then hook that into a transmitter
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wireless-Bl...luetooth_Adapters_Dongles&hash=item43b40e7f95

I only use the Sena transmitter because I bought it thinking it would solve my issue. The ebay transmitter works just fine.

Rod
 
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OK, now I'm really confused! I ordered a SM10 from Amazon, and haven't gotten it yet. My main priority is the radar detector and being able to hear it's alerts. I can live without hearing the GPS if need be. If I want to hear the detector first and foremost, can that be run wireless?
 
OK, now I'm really confused! I ordered a SM10 from Amazon, and haven't gotten it yet. My main priority is the radar detector and being able to hear it's alerts. I can live without hearing the GPS if need be. If I want to hear the detector first and foremost, can that be run wireless?

You will be OK. Hard wire your GPS to the SM10 (music port). Hard wire your radar detector to the SM10 (AUX port). Pair your SM10 with the SMH10 headset (using "phone pairing" protocol). Using this, the GPS will be muted (about 70%) when you get a radar signal. The muting is carried out by the SM10 transmitter. The reason this hook up method works is that there is only one (the SM10's) AD2P signal being sent to the headset.
Rod
 
SM10, SMH10, SR10... Perhaps Sena needs to re-evaluate their product naming conventions :confused:
 
I thought when you hard wire one you loose the A2DP though? Guess I misunderstood

Yes you do..you got it right.
If you use the earjack on the sena headset, you loose the a2dp due to 1) priority setting 2) same stereo curcuit

but, He'd talking about hard wiring a gps and detector with a splitter and a2dp dongle then to the Sena

As he shows a cheap way but also says he uses the sm10 which combines the 2 units (hardwire)and then links to the Sena. The SM10 uses the a2dp channel of the Sena
 
As he shows a cheap way but also says he uses the sm10 which combines the 2 units (hardwire)and then links to the Sena. The SM10 uses the a2dp channel of the Sena

Exactly. I gave links to a relatively inexpensive way to hook things up (I have used this system myself and it works fine). However, I bought an SM10 transmitter on the hopes I could connect my GPS/MP3, via bluetooth, to the headset and my radar detector, via the SM10, to the headset. No joy. Headset only will do one AD2P input at a time.
Rod
 
I just bought the SMH10, and was hoping to hard wire the radar to the headset, while having phone and music from the phone bluetoothed. I now know that THAT isn't going to happen and still have my music, but..... I if I get the SM10 dongle, can I - 1.) Bluetooth the phone by HST only, 2.) Hardwire a mp3 to the headset, 3.) Hardwire Radar to the SM10, then 4.) AD2P the SM10 to the headset?

I guess I could skip #2 and wire the mp3 to the SM10 instead. If so, will I still get instant Radar notification? (If I'm not talking on the phone)?

Am I understanding this all correctly?
 
I guess I could skip #2 and wire the mp3 to the SM10 instead. If so, will I still get instant Radar notification? (If I'm not talking on the phone)?

Am I understanding this all correctly?

Depending on your phone, some you can selectively turn on/off what method of bluetooth they use. I know on my droid I can enable just one of the two links.

As far as the instant notify.. not sure. Haven't played with the SM10, but my first guess would be no. Usually there is a slight delay when a unit switches sources.
 
I just bought the SMH10, and was hoping to hard wire the radar to the headset, while having phone and music from the phone bluetoothed. I now know that THAT isn't going to happen and still have my music, but..... I if I get the SM10 dongle, can I - 1.) Bluetooth the phone by HST only, 2.) Hardwire a mp3 to the headset, 3.) Hardwire Radar to the SM10, then 4.) AD2P the SM10 to the headset?

I know I'm a little late, but I've been doing some research on this and ran across this post. Here's what I found out:

The SMH10 allows two HFP channels and one A2DP at the same time.
- The SR10 uses HFP
- The SM10 uses A2DP
- A smartphone uses both HFP and A2DP (although you can connect only the HFP part using mulit-point pairing)
- Some GPSs use A2DP, but ones like the Zumo use HFP (beware that most car-type GPSs with bluetooth only have a BT receiver, not a transmitter, made for connecting your phone to the GPS, not the GPS to something else)
- based on the built-in priorities of the SMH10, if you hard wire anything to the headset using the 1/8" input, you kill the A2DP input to the headset.
- and the intercom preempts all A2DP signals, as well as anything from the 1/8" jack

So, given that, you can connect a phone (with or without A2DP), an SR10 (or HFP GPS, or 2nd phone), and, if you didn't connect the A2DP part of the phone, another A2DP device (iPod, A2DP GPS, SM10, etc) all at the same time.

With the SR10, you are supposed to get input simultaneously with the intercom (and the phone?), although the docs seem a bit vague on this. Its made for a two way radio, so the idea is that you can talk on the two-way and the BT intercom at the same time. The downside is that the SR10 is mono-only because of the HFP protocol, even though it has a stereo input jack.

The new v5 manual has some additional diagrams showing simultaneous connections to a phone, SM10 and SR10, as well as various GPS diagrams, but its still a bit confusing because of differences with GPSs, etc.

Hope this helps.
 
Just bought two Sena SMH10 sets to use between my wife an myself. Works good, except the intercom to intercom connection. It works when we start out. If I disconnect the Intercom connection, then try to connect again, (does not matter who is disconnecting) we get message "intercom unavailable, try again later". VOX function is turned off on both units. Any thoughts on what might be the issue?


My setup: Iphone 6 paired with Garmin Navigator V GPS. Navigator V GPS paired with SMH10.
Wife's setup: Iphone 6 paired with Zumo 550 GPS. Zumo 550 GPS paired with SMH10.
 
My setup: Iphone 6 paired with Garmin Navigator V GPS. Navigator V GPS paired with SMH10.
Wife's setup: Iphone 6 paired with Zumo 550 GPS. Zumo 550 GPS paired with SMH10.

When you pair the phone and and GPS directly to the head set this will happen every time. I use an SM10 Zumo 550 gets plugged in to the SM10 iphone gets paired to the head set and then intercoms get piared works fine. You need an SM10. I run my 550 with SAT Radio through the SM10 I get music and directions and the phone goes right to the head set. Wife gets music and directions and can pair her phone to her headset.
 
When you pair the phone and and GPS directly to the head set this will happen every time. I use an SM10 Zumo 550 gets plugged in to the SM10 iphone gets paired to the head set and then intercoms get piared works fine. You need an SM10. I run my 550 with SAT Radio through the SM10 I get music and directions and the phone goes right to the head set. Wife gets music and directions and can pair her phone to her headset.


The only thing directly paired with the SMH10 is the GPS. The phone is paired to the GPS.
 
I'd suggest make sure you have the latest firmware and in the process do a factory reset, erase all pairings.
 
The only thing directly paired with the SMH10 is the GPS. The phone is paired to the GPS.
That is the problem. The way I solved it was to get the SM10 the GPS plugs in to the SM10 and the headset pairs with the SM10 and the phone pairs directly to the headset.
 
That is the problem. The way I solved it was to get the SM10 the GPS plugs in to the SM10 and the headset pairs with the SM10 and the phone pairs directly to the headset.

plugs in?.......as in hardwired? If that is the case its going back to the place I bought it from. You don't hardwire a headset that's supposed to work over bluetooth.
 
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