Cars / BMW
Supported 2014–2023
The Boring Lights app can switch the BMW i8's headlights, daytime running lights, side lights, front fog lights, indicators and more: strobe, wig-wag, double flash, chase and your own shows, from your iPhone. The first time, the app checks each light with you.
Get Boring LightsHeadlights, daytime running lights, side lights, front fog lights, indicators, tail lights, brake lights, reverse lights, rear fog lights and number plate lights. Nothing else is switched, and every light goes back to the car when you stop.
Ready-made shows at any speed, left and right, front and rear.
Pick the lights and the pattern yourself.
Any Bluetooth OBD adapter in the diagnostic port. The app finds it by itself.
The app recognises your BMW i8 and the lights it has.
Your real lights run it. Stop hands every light straight back to the car.
An iPhone and a Bluetooth OBD adapter (Veepeak BLE, vLinker, OBDLink or similar). Bluetooth keeps wireless CarPlay and your phone's internet working. No coding and nothing changed on the car.
Best adapter to leave in the car
OBDLink CX: Bluetooth, sleeps when the car is off and wakes with it, so it can stay plugged in and connects by itself, and wireless CarPlay keeps working. Cheaper: vLinker BM+.
OBDLink CX · vLinker BM+
Light shows are for when the car is parked, where it is allowed, never on a public road. Every light goes back to normal when you press Stop, and after 10 minutes at most.
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