Hi
I am looking to buy a new ford fiesta model which does not have Navigation built in but supports Carplay and Android Auto
Will Carplay / android auto use my phone as the GPS receiver?
Yes, these systems use your devices GPS.
these systems use your devices GPS.
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Hello All!
I recently bought a new car that has a stock head unit from Toyota in the middle console, but no USB or even an AUX input for sound. But as the electronics enthusiast I am I started searching around for solutions that would fit my needs in regards to compatibility and usefulness, I haven’t been able to find the solution making me pleased.
I bought a 7” Tontec screen with resistive touch overlay and the first idea was to run this Kodi build on a Raspberry Pi B rev.2 (Kudos to Andrei for the fantastic project!) engineering-diy.blogspot.fi
Altough I would be able to use android as OS, mostly because I want to use the electrical and networking tools bought in Play Store. And since adding an android unit to my existing “Internet of Things” setup would be fairly simple.
To my knowledge there isn’t any stable good working build for android on the raspi and it struck me that I have two old but still functional android phones in the drawer. So I would only need to connect the phone to the screen, and basically get the same solution as with the MimicsX2 and Smartphone Uplink (smartphone-uplink.com)
Units at my disposal
Samsung GS2, GT-9300 (Will be used as Head Unit)
Samsung GS4 LTE+, GT-i9506 (Will not be used, my backup phone if my S5 breaks)
Tontec 7" Display (itontec.com/product-detail/product-name-7)
Display controller board (HDMI/Component-In)
Resistive 4-wire Touch Overlay
Touch controller board supplied with overlay (USB-out)
Pioneer 1-Din Car Stereo (Aux & USB for sound input)
Sure Electronics Audio Amp
ELM327 OBD2 Bluetooth Adapter for ECU Readings
Units to be bought
Bluetooth slave controller [USB-BT] (For connecting touch controller to android phone)
Touch controller (USB) (Optional, adafruit.com/products/1580 To emulate mouse HID, would this eliminate the need of external android driver?)
Reverse Camera
Main Issues
What Bluetooth slave should I use? Other issues to be taken into considerations regarding Bluetooth?
How many Bluetooth devices may be connected to the phone at once?
External BT GPS for added accuracy.
“Hands free” connection to regular Smartphone with SIM-card. (How should this be implemented? Pause music etc.)
And finally attached a visual box diagram of what i meant to accomplish.
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And since I'm completely new to using bluetooth communication, is this even a possible setup? Anything i should know? I would be very grateful for some help before ordering the bluetooth modules, or other needed components.
Hey Guys, i searched located a few threads but cant find a definite answer...
I got Ford Sync 3 with AA.
My car headunit have factory GPS software and antenna on the car.
Now i have updated my headunit to firmware with AA and CP.
When connecting AA everything works fine, but when i go to Google Maps it always require me to turn my phone GPS to High Accuracy (on) mode.
i was under the impression if my car have built in antenna it will utilize that...
Is it a case where for my car specifically (Ford 2016 Mustang) if built in NAVI is off then there is no power to the GPS antenna? or is it a setting i cant seem to find within AA?
thank you.
I am using a Pioneer headunit connected with the car's built-in GPS antenna, and I frequently use Android Auto. My experience is that AA used the phone's GPS antenna, not the one connected to the headunit (which should have better reception).
AA very probably uses the phone's antenna because the good people at Google expect some headunits to not have a GPS antenna connected (after all no GPS on your headunit is a major selling point for using AA), and they have no way to check that by software.
I just got a Hyundai I20 2019 car
It came with the connect car stereo unit
And some default apps
I was wondering if there is a way to hack in some way to install other apps like YouTube or Spotify
And even better if there is a way to get a CarPlay functionality working
It’s a android 5.1.1 model mgcol2 system with a 3.10.49 kernel
^up that
It's possible to add any apps in Hyundai connected car facility.
It's easy to hack TATA car easily as IRA app used in the car lacks in security
Hello,
I'm looking to understand if there's any ways to modify/jailbreak or tweak the uConnect system to support CarPlay? The current OEM head unit doesn't have CarPlay...and I'm not certain if it's locked or if the feature doesn't even exist with this specific system. I know the head unit has GPS but only works if you go to a dealership and have them activate it after paying a stupidass fee.
System software version is 17.11.17
Is this possible?
Hello,
I have an Android PX6 head unit in my Toyota 4Runner. I have a couple of questions I am hoping to get some guidance on around Zlink/Carplay:
1. I can only sync one device wirelessly or can I do multiple devices i.e. mine and my wife's?
2. If I can only do one device wirelessly, how do I disable wireless and use wired carplay so wife and I can use it depending on who is driving? I tried to disable wireless in the settings and it would persistently connect wirelessly to my phone.
Thanks in adavance