How did you program your 🔹buttons?

[yoursuf]

Wheel - Garage opener
Cluster - E Sound.. which I never use

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[Gru]

Next track on the steering wheel, sport sound for the one on the main dashboard.

same as above.

after reading the 3 pages, I'll give a try to the surround view on the steering wheel. I (often) use so far the dedicated button on the central console.

 

[bn8959]

J1.1 so have regen button - which I love and use all the time (would really miss it in j1.2)

Wheel button - sport sound (pedestrians etc)
Dash button - parking surround

I have the Remote Park Assist so have lost the button on the centre dash to activate the surround view - which is annoying - as it gets replaced with the remote park assist button.

 

[SoccerMan94043]

J1.1 so have regen button - which I love and use all the time (would really miss it in j1.2)

It saves to whatever you set it to in the J1.2. If you don't change it often, you probably won't miss it.

 

[JenniATL]

Steering wheel = cameras
Super convenient

 

[obiwan]

Now that I know other people have a surround camera button in the center I can see why it would be confusing I’d use up a custom button. Mine is parking assist (which when opened has a button to turn on the camera, but that’s 2 clicks).

 

[gnr3312]

Now that I know other people have a surround camera button in the center I can see why it would be confusing I’d use up a custom button. Mine is parking assist (which when opened has a button to turn on the camera, but that’s 2 clicks).

I use 2 clicks to the garage door opener too so it’s not too out of the ordinary

 

[targa666]

J1.1 so have regen button - which I love and use all the time (would really miss it in j1.2)

Wheel button - sport sound (pedestrians etc)
Dash button - parking surround

I have the Remote Park Assist so have lost the button on the centre dash to activate the surround view - which is annoying - as it gets replaced with the remote park assist button.

I have The remote park assist too. But figured out now that hitting the button on the consolescreen pops up a menu on the center screen where you can activate the cams as well. Too much work anyway so the quick link is very handy indeed!

 

[Murph7355]

Sports sound on the wheel (may change to cameras having read here ).

HUD on the dash.

To pick up on a couple of others...you all may already know these but...

"next track" - if you have "Media" in the right-hand tube...click (push) the right wheel scrolling button. As long as you aren't in "Favourites" on the PCM it should bring up an appropriate list of what's playing. Eg if on DAB I get a list of radio stations, if on a USB album I get a list of tracks. Then use the right wheel scrolling button to go up and down the list, and push it to select that item. Et voila, next track, previous track, last track etc etc all available. (It can only show so many items, but if you select the first or last, then scroll up/down it will give you the next block of items). This is both the best and most frustrating function for me. The latter because with a very small modification in software they could allow you to control the whole media system... And quite possible the whole PCM.... from that button - changing sources, selecting specifics etc).

“Lift" - there's already a button for this on the driver's display, to the right. Push the car symbol with the arrow in it.

And on sport sound... Someone mentioned pedestrians... In the UK the external sound is always on at low speeds regardless. Sport Sound is really an internal thing. So if you're only activating for that reason, I wouldn't bother

 

[whitex]

HUD on the dash.

Fyi, to free up that diamond button, you can use the comfort memory button if you can spare one for HUD. HUD state (ON/OFF) gets saved together with your seat/mirrors/steering wheel positions, so you just need to save the same positions on 2 comfort memory buttons, one with HUD ON, one with HUD OFF.

 

[kern417]

Homelink is location aware and stores GPS coordinates such that when set the option to open / close the garage door pops up automatically on the PCM - frees up the Joker button for something else.

it can be hard to press the button on the screen. the joker button is 100% success rate. i have our set that way too.

i have the other one set for sport sound for the kids, but honestly wish it was more configurable like in BMWs. in idrive you can go to any screen or button and long press to save that as a shortcut. then you could use one of the buttons for a phone number to speed dial or take you to a specific screen on the PCM. the limited options are probably why so many people use them for redundant tasks.

 

[sandjunkie]

Dash = Surround View Cameras
Steering Wheel = Next track

 

[obiwan]

Dash = Surround View Cameras
Steering Wheel = Next track

I think this is the 3rd I’ve seen of this combo (I was one of them…). Guessing you are a J1.2 with “active parking support”?

 

[Murph7355]

Fyi, to free up that diamond button, you can use the comfort memory button if you can spare one for HUD. HUD state (ON/OFF) gets saved together with your seat/mirrors/steering wheel positions, so you just need to save the same positions on 2 comfort memory buttons, one with HUD ON, one with HUD OFF.

Oooh. Cracking tip. Ta

 

[websterize]

... I have the Remote Park Assist so have lost the button on the centre dash to activate the surround view - which is annoying - as it gets replaced with the remote park assist button.

Now I think I understand why some Taycans have the direct surround-view button on the lower-left section of the center console. Mine includes Surround View as part of the Premium package, but it does not include Remote Park Assist.

My button assignments (for now)
Steering: Next track
Dash: Sport sound

Incidentally, I had previously assigned the dash button to HomeLink. In addition to the detail about the surround-view button, I learned from this post that the HomeLink modal screen I set to appear when I’m near home is actually the control for opening and closing the garage door. I had been dismissing it each time I arrived home, completely missing that it was functional! Pressing and holding the saved location name on that screen is the HomeLink “button” that opens or closes the garage door. The same applies to the HomeLink icon on the far right side of the PCM screen. I checked the owner’s manual to confirm this, but couldn’t find any mention of it.

Lots of a UX nuance in Porsche Land (I actually love this type of granular obsession, lol)

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