Hi all. I bought a new (for me) Subaru yesterday and I’m already sick of plugging my phone in (yet my last car couldn’t even connect a phone).

Has anyone had any experience with wireless-to-USB AA adapters? They all seem to be cheap AliExpress dealies so not sure how they go. I have suspicions that these would interfere with the “native” experience of the car.

Not fussed about connect time, just want to to be “transparent” and not have drop outs.

Oh and I’m running a Pixel 7, surely that has all the bells and whistles to do all this.

Cheers.

  • seang96@spgrn.com
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    1 year ago

    There’s 2 android auto, wired, and relatively new wireless. Wireless utilizes Bluetooth and wifi, the car hosts a wifi network and the phone likely gets the connection info from Bluetooth (a handshake of some sort) then uses the WiFi for Android auto likely due to higher bandwidth requirements that Bluetooth wouldn’t be able to do to host a user interface on the cars touchscreen.