Settings
Kamoji has an on-device Settings menu, navigated entirely with the touch sensors on its left, right, and top — no companion app required.
Accessing the Settings screen
- Switch away from Driving Emotions to any other mode.
- Hold both the left and right sides of Kamoji at the same time for 3 seconds. The Settings menu appears on the display.
Navigating the Settings screen
Once the Settings menu is open, the same three touch sensors control it:
- Touch Right — move down to the next item
- Touch Left — move up to the previous item
- Touch Top — change the value of the highlighted item
Settings options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Dynamic Eyes | Toggle between the 2 different eyes designs. |
| Boot Sound | Toggle whether Kamoji plays a sound on power-up. |
| Motion Sound | Controls which driving-feedback sounds Kamoji plays in response to hard acceleration, braking, and cornering:
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| Idle Sound | Toggle whether Kamoji plays a sound when it detects the car has been idle for a while. |
| FPS Counter | Toggle an on-screen frames-per-second counter overlay, useful for checking animation performance. Note: it is hidden at the corner of the screen; remove Kamoji helmet to see it. |
| Temperature | Toggle a temperature reading on the display, from IMU sensor. Note: it is hidden at the corner of the screen; remove Kamoji helmet to see it. The temperature reading is not guarantee to be accurate, it is only a relative indication of the environment around Kamoji. |
| Allow Exit Peer Mode | Toggle whether Kamoji can exit an active peer-to-peer mode back to normal mode. |
| Fluid Drink | Cycle through the Ferrofluid visualizer's preset drink themes: Water, Tea, Juice, Milk, Beer, Wine, Honey. This changes the viscosity factor and color of the liquid. |
| Tilt Sensitive | Adjust how sensitive Takumi's Cup Challenge is to tilt, cycling from 1.0x to 4.0x in 0.5x steps. |
| Auto Update | Toggle whether Kamoji installs new firmware by itself when it is on Wi-Fi (on by default). When it is off, Kamoji only updates its firmware when you choose Check Update or update it from the app. New animations and sounds still arrive either way. Also in the Kamoji app (My Kamoji, Kamoji Config) and on Kamoji's web page. |
| Check Update | Manually trigger an OTA firmware update check instead of waiting for the automatic one (every hour). |
| Info | Open a read-only Info page — see below. |
| Reboot | Restart Kamoji immediately. |
Microphone auto gain
Kamoji's sound-reactive visuals (such as the Ferrofluid mode) listen through its microphone. Microphones differ slightly from one Kamoji to the next, and the helmet changes how much sound reaches them, so Kamoji can tune its own microphone sensitivity. These two settings are not in the on-device menu: change them from the companion app (My Kamoji → Config) or from Kamoji's web interface.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Mic Auto Gain auto_gain | On by default. At each power-up, Kamoji listens to its own boot sound through its microphone and sets the microphone's sensitivity (between 1x and 4x) so that the boot sound reaches the level set by Mic Auto Gain Target. This makes the sound-reactive visuals respond the same way on every Kamoji. Turn it off to use a fixed sensitivity instead. The change applies straight away. |
Mic Auto Gain Target auto_gain_target | How loud the boot sound should sound to the microphone, in dBFS (decibels below the microphone's maximum level), as if played at 100% volume: anywhere from -36 to -12 in 1 dB steps, -24 being the default (marked on the app's slider). A higher value (closer to 0) makes the microphone more sensitive, so Kamoji reacts more to sound; a lower value makes it calmer. Only used while Mic Auto Gain is on. A new target applies straight away, using the measurement from the last power-up. |
Auto gain can only measure when the boot sound plays: keep Boot Sound on and Audio Volume at 20% or more. If the boot sound is off, too quiet, or drowned out by a noisy car at power-up, Kamoji keeps its fixed sensitivity until the next power-up.
Info page
Selecting Info opens a read-only page with device details, useful for troubleshooting:
- Firmware — the installed firmware version
- WiFi — the connected Wi-Fi network name, or "Disconnected"
- IP — the device's IP address on that network. Visit
http://<ip address>in a browser on the same network to open Kamoji's web interface, where you can configure its Wi-Fi and explore some hidden internal workings of Kamoji. On R7 boards,http://kamoji-r7-production.localworks too, so you don't need to look up the IP each time - MAC — the device's Wi-Fi MAC address
- Free Heap — available RAM
- IMU Temp — temperature reading from the motion sensor
- App Size — size of the running firmware partition
- Storage (F/T) — free vs. total space on the on-device asset storage
- FCC ID — the device's FCC identifier