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#androidauto

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Just downloaded #CoMaps as an experiment - haven't tried it in the car with #AndroidAuto yet, but also found there seems to be a some delay between the app making use of an #OpenStreetMap dataset (in this case the map is 2025-06-25 ).

This is understandable as it must take a fair bit of time to get all the data across and maybe it has to be validated (otherwise trolls/vandals could end up causing all sorts of chaos) - found in the FAQ that CoMaps apparently updates 1-4 times each month (which if true seems fairly good and better than some commercial apps!)

Got this USB wireless #AndroidAuto adaptor as I was fed up with having the USB cable trailing across the car into the passenger footwell (where the phone is in or on top of one of my kit bags) - it works quite well and doesn't even seem to randomly disconnect as much!

Might not be the most secure thing (and curiously you have to connect to the devices Bluetooth but then it transfers the signal to the #MIB2 connection just like using the cable!) but it creates a 5 GHz rather than 2,4 GHz wifi SSID so not going to go that far, and its only going to display the navi app from a bright red car that you would likely already be able to see in order to receive the wifi signal..

So, nach langem Zögern habe ich mich diese Woche vom normalen Android verabschiedet und auf meinem Fairphone 5 ein Custom Rom installiert. Ich habe mich für iodéOS entschieden. Fühlt sich ganz gut an, wieder etwas weniger von Google abhängig zu sein.😊

Aber wie befürchtet, funktioniert Android Auto damit nicht mehr. Zukünftig also wieder mit Handyhalterung im Auto navigieren 🙄

Ist das normal, dass #AndroidAuto in #Dänemark nicht funktioniert? Heute, als wir über die Grenze fuhren war schlagartig die Android-Auto-Verbindung unterbrochen. Zuerst dachte ich, dass es daran lag, dass die Datenverbindung im Roaming abgebrochen war. Aber als die nach ein paar Minuten hergestellt war, ließ sich Auto bis jetzt nicht mehr verbinden.

#AppleCarplay ging btw. auch nicht. Das hatten wir allerdings nicht in Deutschland ausprobiert.

Das Auto ist ein gemieteter #Renault.

Does anyone have recommendations for better #navi #apps that can work with #AndroidAuto than stock #Google #maps or #Waze ? Tried out Waze today and it wasn't too bad, even had Paddington Bear narrating the turns but I'd rather use something less corporate (OSM based?)

Features I need -

* good basemap of UK roads and speed limits

* audible warning if speed limit exceeded (Google doesn't have this, Waze does as does my stand alone #TomTom

Yesterday, whilst I was driving, I received a text message. When I pressed for Google to read the message I was asked if I wanted the fucking AI to summarise the message! No I want to hear what someone has said - not what some bloody piece of computer code thinks they have said!
How do I turn the bastard off?
#GoogleAI #AndroidAuto

#ABRP 6.0 came out and it finally brings a magical feature: support from #AndroidAuto CarInfo API. All the cars that support it will automatically get live battery data in ABRP, just by running it as the navigation app through Android Auto. It's quite amazing, it's a shame though my #EV6 does not support this :neocat_sad:

So does anyone have an #EV supporting this, can give it a go and share impressions?

developer.android.com/referenc

abetterrouteplanner.com/compar

Android DevelopersCarInfo  |  API reference  |  Android Developers

I installed Organic Maps on my iPhone several months ago but didn't really use it much. Over the weekend I started using it w/ CarPlay in my car.

I like it. It's a little more "technical" looking than Apple's mapping and better looking than Android (I haven't used Android Auto in more than a year). Sort of a middle ground between the two and I prefer it.

The map movement on the screen is kinda old-timey, quaint looking but I don't mind it. The map rotation is not smooth, herky-jerky in ~15 deg increments and the pointer "vibrates" but it is accurate and kinda neat to watch. Perhaps there are options to add map movement smoothing but I couldn't find it.

The dynamic zooming and perspective changes are very neat as well.

Routing worked perfectly fine. The ETA calcs are not as accurate as the other platforms (I figure the others use crowd sourced real road average speeds - which is scraping and processing user data effectively).

I have a bunch of feature request ideas - do I dare open a bunch of tix for the backlog? Ha!

Anyway, recommended.

#OrganicMaps #Apple #iOS CarPlay #Google #Android #AndroidAuto #Map #iPhone #Pixel #Linux

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The Pine Phone Pro arrived earlier this week. After a few unfocused, false starts I finally got it booting into Gnome on PostmarketOS and currently installing Waydroid over ssh.

My wife uses a cheesey coupon clipping app (iOS/Android) for doing the groceries and such. I'll need to take a look at what traffic flows in-n-out of this app to see what is being farmed and segregate/container off if required.

We are heavy Signal users but I may use this as an excuse to set up a XMPP server. Twas on the 'roadmap'.

Initial impressions are good. Definitely not as shiny and smooth as an iOS or Android device but - it's a phone. We spent half our lives with dumb rotary dialing doohickeys - we'll survive. lol

Pretty impressed with Gnome on a touch device so far. This is my first real experience with it. No 'klunkiness' so far but just scratching the surface.

It will be interesting to see how a non-technical person takes to it. I'm going to monkey with it myself for the first week or so to find the hard edges to save her the frustration.

I want to experiment with Android Auto - see what (if anything) is possible.

I also obtained a Seeed Studio Sensecap T1000-E (meshtastic, lora, etc.) to connect to this device. We'll see how far I get with that.

I really need a staff... 🙃 Ha!

Random musings and questions with zero recent research...

You can install the Apple CarPlay dev kit on a Linux host and then connect your iPhone to that CarPlay instance.

I'd assume the same is possible with Android Auto (Linux with AA SDK allows Android phone connection).

What about connecting a Linux device to a CarPlay/AA computer/car?.

On the Linux 'client' device you'd have to have the Linux apps [possibly Android apps] be able to connect to CarPlay/AA.

Is there a standard for that? Programming or packaging or both?

Use case: I want to create Linux apps that can be used on an car's OEM CarPlay/AA interface.

Also, the car's CarPlay/AA setup may eventually be replaced with a Linux host running the respective SDKs for CP/AA.

Surely this isn't a unique idea? Something exists?

I'll probably edit this as I turn it over more in the brane pane.

#Linux#iOS#Android