Motive Monkey (MM) is a Scenic Motorcycle Navigation control tool, using a Bluetooth remote control. It is specially designed and configured for Scenic riding Navigation:
Connect MM to 5V, open Bluetooth on iPhone, choose Motive Monkey. You do this once – and that´s it. You are now up and running – on every ride!!
The goal for MM has been the optimal integration of a rider friendly control with the Scenic navigation system to ensure quality, simplicity and stable Bluetooth connection, all without hassle, resulting in a great rider friendly user experience.
This is accomplished when MM is paired with the Scenic system installed on iPhone.
Price MM as described: € 145,00 including freight and VAT within EU.
Price MM as described: € 155,00 including freight excluding VAT outside EU.
Motive Monkey may be mounted on your handlebar, mirror stem and the like to ensure it is within easy and safe reach for the rider and to ease the use of the four control buttons. These buttons have six functions and are designed to control Scenic for your chosen functions like zooming in or out, moving through the Scenic Navigation (big button) menu. It can also be used to playing and pausing music, etc.
The MM buttons are mapped by the user to various, given functions in Scenic.
To zoom in on the map, press UP-button once for one step or press and hold for continuous zoom. Likewise to zoom out with the DOWN-button.
The LEFT and RIGHT buttons have two functions each: a short press and a long press, e.g. for starting and stopping music or to navigate in the Scenic button menu.
Just to give you some insights: after an intensive pilot period with various feedback of the first users, MM is now brought to production level. The product is professionally assembled with A class components. The internals are fully protected and sealed in gel, resulting in a durable waterproof solution. If needed MM can be wirelessly updated.
Further technical details and measurements can be found here.
Background about Motive Monkey, smartphones, Scenic Motorcycle App and other apps
Some users may ask if Motive Monkey also can work with other apps?
The short answer is yes, but…. It will require that the app developers of the app you want to use add special code to their app to “catch” the MM remote keyboard instructions (or any other remote make for that matter). There are no standards nor conventions for the various functions in an app to be used by keyboards, neither for iPhone nor for Android devices.
That said, Motive Monkey is taylor made to be used to control Scenic as Scenic has added the necessary code to catch the button presses and link functions from Motive Monkey.
CarPlay: Does MM work? The Scenic Navigation App is compatible with CarPlay systems mounted on bikes, thus allowing you to leave your iPhone in your pocket when riding. We are often asked if our MM remote works with Scenic on Carplay. The answer is no, unfortunately. The simple explanation is that CarPlay does not support remote controllers like MM. This is a deliberate design choice made by Apple in the Carplay design. For a more detailed explanation, check out these insights from Guido on the Scenic website: https://scenic.app/help/handlebar-controllers/
Therefore, we think that because of this, Scenic on your iPhone at your handlebar combined with MM, is the your better choice 🙂
The video is from an earlier Scenic version that will be updated, but the functionality is as shown 🙂