RIVIAN ASSISTANT SOFTWARE UPDA

[SwampNut]

It’s my personal calendar.

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[Irish76]

Mine pops up on the left of the drivers screen under the consumption graph.

If you have an iPhone you need to go into the Bluetooth setting on your iPhone Bluetooth settings and in the Rivian Audio that is connected enable show messages.

Yep, it started doing that this morning. Thanks for the input folks.

 

[R1SNRGY]

It’s my personal calendar.

First, let me preface by saying I run several calendars on my Android phone. They all show all events on each calendar, so it doesn't matter which calendar I open, I can see every event. However, this is visibility on each calendar, all events do NOT reside on all calendars. When I go to my Google calendar management and uncheck the boxes next to all of the other calendars, the Google calendar events unpopulate, because they're not really on that calendar. And this is the issue for the Rivian Assistant, it doesn't get visibility permission to see the other calendars. If I go to an event on my Samsung calendar I can easily change it to a Google calendar event and the RA will see it. But if it is on my Samsung calendar, no matter how many little boxes are checked in the Google calendar settings, the RA won't see it. So, for me, any event that may involve driving gets moved to Google. It still shows up on all of my other calendars, but lives on Google. I can even create it on my standard Samsung calendar, I just have to assign it to the Google calendar before I hit save. Not really any exta effort, now that I understand what is happening under the hood, so to speak.

 

[SwampNut]

First, let me preface by saying I run several calendars on my Android phone. They all show all events on each calendar, so it doesn't matter which calendar I open, I can see every event. However, this is visibility on each calendar, all events do NOT reside on all calendars. When I go to my Google calendar management and uncheck the boxes next to all of the other calendars, the Google calendar events unpopulate, because they're not really on that calendar. And this is the issue for the Rivian Assistant, it doesn't get visibility permission to see the other calendars. If I go to an event on my Samsung calendar I can easily change it to a Google calendar event and the RA will see it. But if it is on my Samsung calendar, no matter how many little boxes are checked in the Google calendar settings, the RA won't see it. So, for me, any event that may involve driving gets moved to Google. It still shows up on all of my other calendars, but lives on Google. I can even create it on my standard Samsung calendar, I just have to assign it to the Google calendar before I hit save. Not really any exta effort, now that I understand what is happening under the hood, so to speak.

I deeply understand how this works and have been involved in calendar integration development. This is literally about my one single personal Google Calendar and a personal appointment in that calendar. I’ve rebooted the car and will test again. After the update, I have also lost auto-locking. Great.

 

[R1SNRGY]

I deeply understand how this works and have been involved in calendar integration development. This is literally about my one single personal Google Calendar and a personal appointment in that calendar. I’ve rebooted the car and will test again. After the update, I have also lost auto-locking. Great.

Hope you get it sorted out. Just sharing my experience to the group at large as I initially thought that if I saw an event in my Google calendar, then it must be there. Not so. Maybe it will help someone else. Sorry your issue seems to be more complex.

 

[JMACCA]

Quite a few posts on this. It is an absolute MISS by Rivian for Amazon Music alone....

I also used Amazon Prime Music and now I use this work around. Open the amazon music app on your cell phone. Next use blue tooth in the Rivian music window and choose your iPhone as the source. Next activate the Rivian camp speaker blue tooth. Play what you want from the iPhone through the Rivian sound system but need to control the music with your iPhone. You can switch back and forth from Rivian Assistant to Alexa as well in your settings but can not use them both at once other than as I outlined above. Pretty significant oversight not to have Amazon Music as a choice in the apps listed in Rivian assistant.. Should be easily fixed in a soon to come update.

 

[S3_Sparky]

Workaround is to install Alexa on your phone. Play music over Bluetooth. You can enjoy both Amazon music and use Riv assistant.

 

[Mark_AZR1T]

Workaround is to install Alexa on your phone. Play music over Bluetooth. You can enjoy both Amazon music and use Riv assistant.

I've done this and it works, but it's a huge workaround....and my wife, definitely isn't interested in those hoops. Spoiled by, "Hey Alexa play my favorites, or play ....." Hopefully a fix is forthcoming..

 

[wolfethomas]

Ok so I did latest software update enabling Rivian assistant. The problem is that it cancels out Alexa app.
You can’t switch from one to the other!
Rivian you have to fix this problem!

We don't miss Alexa. It was terrible for navigation, and couldn't do what Rivian Assistant does.

 

[DuoRivian]

Hope you get it sorted out. Just sharing my experience to the group at large as I initially thought that if I saw an event in my Google calendar, then it must be there. Not so. Maybe it will help someone else. Sorry your issue seems to be more complex.

Thanks for the confirmation of the issue I saw of events from another calendar being seen in Google Calendar but not seen by the RA. I now just duplicate the events within Google Calendar and that works.

 

[SANZC02]

I thought I would provide my take on Rivian Assistant after a 6900 mile trip.

Texting worked well, was able to use it quite a bit sending and receiving messages. Even had a chance to send a buddy a message to meet me having RA get the location and ETA from my current destination.

Used it a lot turning conserve on and off of my G1 quad. Opened the frunk, adjusted climate settings, most of the car controls I thought should work did.

Setting navigation destination was easy, was able to provide verbal addresses and asked it to navigate home.

Asking RA to call a hotel simply by saying the hotel name and city was great It confirmed It found a number and asked to verify I wanted it to call. Really helped with impromptu calls to see if the hotels had availability and EV chargers when we were ready to stop.

Last half of the trip with a buddy during conversations we would ask the assistant about various things and was impressed by the answers. I have it set to keep listening and being able to ask follow up question with RA being very much in tune to the subject that initiated the interaction was pretty good.

We were even asking things like where are the rest areas on I84 west in Pennsylvania and got the mile markers they were. Really helped decide if we should stop at an exit or wait for the rest area.

All in all, we were pretty impressed with what has been delivered in version 1 (with the patch) and can’t wait to see what future updates are added.

 

[Mos Eisley]

I thought I would provide my take on Rivian Assistant after a 6900 mile trip.

Texting worked well, was able to use it quite a bit sending and receiving messages. Even had a chance to send a buddy a message to meet me having RA get the location and ETA from my current destination.

Used it a lot turning conserve on and off of my G1 quad. Opened the frunk, adjusted climate settings, most of the car controls I thought should work did.

Setting navigation destination was easy, was able to provide verbal addresses and asked it to navigate home.

Asking RA to call a hotel simply by saying the hotel name and city was great It confirmed It found a number and asked to verify I wanted it to call. Really helped with impromptu calls to see if the hotels had availability and EV chargers when we were ready to stop.

Last half of the trip with a buddy during conversations we would ask the assistant about various things and was impressed by the answers. I have it set to keep listening and being able to ask follow up question with RA being very much in tune to the subject that initiated the interaction was pretty good.

We were even asking things like where are the rest areas on I84 west in Pennsylvania and got the mile markers they were. Really helped decide if we should stop at an exit or wait for the rest area.

All in all, we were pretty impressed with what has been delivered in version 1 (with the patch) and can’t wait to see what future updates are added.

Nice update- great to hear!

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