How to install Sena 50r | Bell Lithium helmet

Step 1:

Remove the inner lining of the helmet, these are just held in by some Velcro and press fitted buttons. Make sure to be easy on pulling out the flaps which are stuck in the side of the helmet.

Step 2:

Install the clip on the side of the helmet which the Sena intercom unit will sit on, this can be somewhat fiddly and needs to be in the correct position straight away, cause sliding it around didn’t really work for me. Check the picture to see the location I put it in. You could also go for a more definitive solution by sticking the unit onto the helmet itself. This gives you a lot more mounting possibilities and locations since you don't have to put it all the way down. This does mean that it is now stuck to your helmet, which is something i don't love, but hey, to each its own!

Step 3:

Step 4:

Now install the Sena 50R unit on its helmet clamp with the supplied double sided sticker. This can be a bit hard, I would stick the sticker on the unit itself first and then on the helmet mount, I did this the other way around and turned out to be a bit harder to get it in its slot. So learn from my mistakes here.

Step 5:

Connect the microphone and speaker wires to the unit, the wire towards the right speaker is much longer, so you cant wire this incorrectly. If you got all connections plugged in you can start putting the inner liner back together while also tucking all the wires inside the helmet with them overlapping each other. This make that you wont feel any wires once all set up.

Optional:

I recommend taking the effort of putting the Sena 50R Unit on charge with the supplied Internet capable cable. This way you can connect the unit to your Wi-Fi network and fully update to the newest firmware, which make the device a bit smoother to run and you benefit from all the newest features.

This is somewhat tricky to do and actually took me some time to figure it out.. What you must have is a 2,4ghz wifi connection, so no 5ghz allowed here, because it will simply not work. You can very easily set up such network through your own router (even I managed to do this). When you disconnect all other wifi networks from your phone you can now connect to the Sena unit. Once done so, go the app and follow the instructions. Make sure to save the password to your 2,4ghz network onto your clipboard, from some reason that was the only way for me to do it. 

Now it will show a blinking blue light, make sure to have the Sena App open, and now click the middle button on the Sena unit once. It will now start updating and showing a blinking blue lide besides a solid blue light.