Its been nearly 3 months of ownership and 5,000 miles of owning my Crimson Red 2018 Honda Clarity Plugin Hybrid. I got all weather mats for her ( https://amzn.to/2VIaxBh ) which were great with all the road trips! I decided to call her Claire. I will be creating more vlogs and blogs about my experience with I prep and go on road trips with her. RoadTripping with Claire!
In this blog post, I found out fun feature on the 2018 Honda Clarity infotainment unit: you can customize SKIN of the unit. It essentially changes theme and buttons to larger square buttons and short cuts to quickly access menu items instead of having to drill down a menu.
Over the past 3 months i really dislike the menu system. The HOME, MENU, and Back buttons were too hard to reach for when driving. They were 1/2 inch icons that were hard to quickly press to go to Android Auto. I also hated the lack of a Volume Knob. My 2017 Chevy Volt was much easier to use with big buttons , responsive touch controls, and tactile knobs and push buttons to quickly navigate the infotainment system without distraction. I wanted the same big buttons on my 2018 Honda Clarity.
In order to change your Infotainment skin, press the home button and go to Settings > Change Skin . This will convert your design of your interface from the rectangular monochrome buttons to vivid boxy colorful menu . The new skin made most of the useful categories in a larger easier to reach square box, such as INFO, Audio, Android Auto and settings. You can rearrange each category by pressing and holding the item. I placed mine so Android Auto and INFO were close to the drivers side.
Using the alternate Skin allows the changing of the be colorful background. You can choose between various wall papers already in the system, live wallpapers that interact with your touch, or even upload images for background. To get to this menu, you need to go to Settings > Detailed Information. This will open the Infotainment unit details menu to access image files and other settings. Go to display settings and choose a new wallpaper!
I chose cherry blossoms for my wall paper as I like the cheery attitude that matches the crimson red of my car.
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