Unit Settings

[gabep]

Apologies in advance for the long background, but I'm guessing this is a pretty unique-to-me type situation. As a European who's lived in the US for over 20 years now, I've gotten used to the local units for most things, the exception being temperature: I still very much prefer Celsius. In most cars I've owned (mostly BMWs, admittedly, with a couple of Audi's thrown in), I've been able to change the units just for the temperature. Not so with Volvo, the only options are Metric, Imperial (UK standard), and US. Imperial would be perfect, only UK gallons are different from US gallons.

Enter 161 UNIT SETTINGS: the perfect combination is there: "07 Temp: °C, Clock: 24 h, Distance: Miles, Fuel Consumption: Miles Per Gallon (US)", however changing it seems to have no effect whatsoever on the car

Has anyone fiddled with this one? Any suggestions/ideas?

[BeachBoy]

Mine was at 09 and I changed to 01 for 24h but that was already in the settings so not really sure what has changed.

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[gabep]

Mine was at 09 and I changed to 01 for 24h but that was already in the settings so not really sure what has changed.

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Thanks for posting, that's very interesting! I'm guessing your car is Canadian spec and you have "Metric" selected? I'd assumed that the three modes in the IHU corresponded to these values for 161:

Metric = 01 Temp: °C, Clock: 24 h, Distance: km, Fuel Consumption: Liter/km
Imperial = 04 Temp: °C, Clock: 24 h, Distance: km, Fuel Consumption: Miles Per Gallon (UK)
US = 1F Temp: °F, Clock: 12 h, Distance: Miles, Fuel Consumption: Miles Per Gallon (US)

After trying to get 07 to stick for a while, I'd given up and accepted that 161 did nothing and the units were fully controlled by the IHU, but the fact you have 09 as default means at least some of them must do something. I may have to do some more testing and see if I can figure out the logic...

[BeachBoy]

Mine was at 09 and I changed to 01 for 24h but that was already in the settings so not really sure what has changed.

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Thanks for posting, that's very interesting! I'm guessing your car is Canadian spec and you have "Metric" selected? I'd assumed that the three modes in the IHU corresponded to these values for 161:

Metric = 01 Temp: °C, Clock: 24 h, Distance: km, Fuel Consumption: Liter/km
Imperial = 04 Temp: °C, Clock: 24 h, Distance: km, Fuel Consumption: Miles Per Gallon (UK)
US = 1F Temp: °F, Clock: 12 h, Distance: Miles, Fuel Consumption: Miles Per Gallon (US)

After trying to get 07 to stick for a while, I'd given up and accepted that 161 did nothing and the units were fully controlled by the IHU, but the fact you have 09 as default means at least some of them must do something. I may have to do some more testing and see if I can figure out the logic...

Maybe the default when adding a new user profile?

Mine at 09 OEM I'm intrigued in Canada as we normally use the 24h fornat

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[gabep]

Maybe the default when adding a new user profile?

Mine at 09 OEM I'm intrigued in Canada as we normally use the 24h fornat

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Huh, that's weird. I've been wondering whether 160 works alongside some other parameter. My best two guesses so far have been 160 INSTRUMENT CLUSTER CALIBR. and 197 SYSTEM LANGUAGE. What do you have on those? Mine are set to "01 Parameter file for USA" and "0A US English", which is as you'd expect, I guess.

Good idea about the user profile! Maybe 160 just sets initial parameters that can be overridden, like with the 12h/24h clock setting. I'll have a go at that. Resetting Sensus to factory settings might also be worth a shot.

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I forgot to add, I tried several values for 160 INSTRUMENT CLUSTER CALIBR. and the only change I noticed viz. the US parameters is that with most of them (EU, OVERSEAS) the cluster uses ISO icons instead of words for certain things, like the parking brake — i.e. (P) instead of PARK.

[IMAY2023]

Apologies in advance for the long background, but I'm guessing this is a pretty unique-to-me type situation. As a European who's lived in the US for over 20 years now, I've gotten used to the local units for most things, the exception being temperature: I still very much prefer Celsius. In most cars I've owned (mostly BMWs, admittedly, with a couple of Audi's thrown in), I've been able to change the units just for the temperature. Not so with Volvo, the only options are Metric, Imperial (UK standard), and US. Imperial would be perfect, only UK gallons are different from US gallons.

Enter 161 UNIT SETTINGS: the perfect combination is there: "07 Temp: °C, Clock: 24 h, Distance: Miles, Fuel Consumption: Miles Per Gallon (US)", however changing it seems to have no effect whatsoever on the car

Has anyone fiddled with this one? Any suggestions/ideas?

hi, 

I was in the same situation as you are now. I got very lucky, I was trying something else and I was not expecting to see temp in  °C but the rest in US. 
So, go into keyboard settings. (you can do that by just searching in an app.) add Turkish as a second language. save it.  Lock the car and wait a bit.  Start the car, and you should see the AC and outside temp in  °C.  I hope this works for you too. 
By the way, two days ago I did total upgrade and still the same. I still see the temp in  °C.

[gabep]

Quick update: Adding a new user profile didn't work, and neither did resetting Sensus to factory settings (which was a real pain in the neck!).

I also tried @IMAY2023's suggestion of adding the Turkish keyboard, and that didn't work either (I did a total upgrade a couple of weeks ago, so the software in the car is fully up-to-date).

[FastWgn]

@gabep - did you ever resolve this? I have the exact same request. Changing the 161 parameters doesn't seem to do anything for me either (2019 V90, US spec). I can change between Metric, Imperial and US, but the units are always the same.

[IMAY2023]

What I noticed is this. 
The settings in the Orbit did not have any effect on the sensus. However, If you want distance and speed in miles but the temperature in celsius like me, you can set it in the sensus unit settings.