Sena Replacement

The Sena 50 series offers Siri commands and wonder wheel control of volume, along with better speakers and mic.

If you don’t need the above, the 30K is a good mesh option.  Don’t know much about the Spider, but Google and YouTube searches should help you out.

If you are interested in the Sena line and are a First Responder or Military (retired too) they give a nice discount. You have to buy directly from Sena and not a dealer. Their service is pretty good and you can get the item quickly as they are located in Irvine. You might even be able to pick it up. They are right by the Five Points Theater.  888-333-7362.

Our nephew is a Sheriff so he ordered it for me.

If you’re in need of a helmet, I can highly recommend the Sena Impulse modular with built-in mesh – basically a 50S inside the helmet, and they retail for $699. It’s a quality helmet and less expensive than the Schuberth and Shoei.

Just putting it out there…

I would think the cell phone kicks that general concept out the door. (Phone, computer, camera, gps and whatever app you run can perform.) Perhaps, like that vintage appliance, the cell phone has doomed itself for extinction!)

You can date any movie by the cell phone being used.   On our ride starting times we need to add  “Pairing time” to our KSU.

Eric, I just installed the Sena SRL which is specific to the Shoei helmet I use.  I believe the Spider is mesh only which I translate into no ability to take phone calls.

I had the top of line speakers on my Cardo and the audio quality was much better but not compatible with any one else in the club.  After using both, I feel the technology on both is (now) antiquated and does not have an AI engine to manage noise and voice recognition.  But, its all we’ve got for now.

Eric I have the Sena Spider used with  Shoei Neotec 2 Helmet. I have upgraded the helmet speakers with the SENA upgrade. About $50.

I have it blue toothed to the Garmin NAV VI GPS for GPS. I have loaded all my music to the Garmin and it plays through the Sena and the music and sounds really well.   The Garmin routing instructions also come through loud and clear.

I have not been able to get the Sena to connect to the bike TFT, iPhone and Garmin all concurrently.  I have tried several procedures but just have not been able get it to work.  There seems to be issues with the BMW TFT communication and the pairing all four items.

I have the iPhone paired with the Garmin.   the Garmin interfaces with the iPhone and calls can be made and received and are displayed on the GPS. However, the sound of the calls do not come through to the Sena. I have not figured out how to make this work and really have just lost patience trying all the You Tube and Forum procedures.

Working with the unit on the Helmet and using the wheel and pushing the small buttons is just tedious.  I rarely have a need to make a phone call while riding so it has not been a real deterrent for me.  I have never tried the MESH communications with other Sena users. Riders tell me it works great, but I have not tried it. Again the small buttons with gloves on  probably just takes more ‘training” than I have been will to do.

I understand the the pairing interface issues do not exist with Android phones.

Eric Wolf wrote:

Thanks everyone for your thoughts/help. I decided on the 30K since I already have the upgraded speakers. This way I can still bluetooth pair with 20’s and with my phone.

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Sena 30K has the old Mesh 1.0 technology, the 50s utilize newer Mesh 2.0, which is more robust and have a much longer range. 

Eric

i have the Sena 50s-10 which has the upgraded mic and speakers. I went from a 20 with upgraded speakers to the 50 and it was still quite an improvement. Mesh with more than a couple of people on it makes my audio skip in and out. So I usually just turn off mesh.
I believe the 30 is Bluetooth. 4.2 . The 50 is Bluetooth  5.0 which gives a little better battery life and range.  Most of the time I use mine to listen to the radio. Yes I can change audio with the wonder wheel.

Gary Felkel

which ever you go for I think both will work fine.

Eric Wolf wrote:

Does the 30K work with the wheel, I wonder? (Did you see what I did there 😉

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