Dan Robinson
EF5
I'm curious if anyone has this type of setup and what has worked, if anything.
I recently changed my phone service to a new Android. I am keeping my old iPhone as a dedicated storm chasing device for use in the car. During "chase mode", it is plugged into my car's infotainment port to run Carplay for Apple Maps, which I think is the superior map system for chasing with Siri-dictated directions and other functions. The iPhone also runs Radarscope as a secondary radar display during chase mode. The iPhone is now pulling all of its data for maps and radar from my car's built-in hotspot via WIFI, rather than its internal cellular connection (which is no longer activated).
The Android phone is a smartphone-based 'dumb phone' used only for phone calls, texts and a music player (I never could satisfactorily get my mp3 library onto my iPhone). But to use the Android via Bluetooth, the iPhone has to be physically unplugged from Carplay. This requires manually unplugging the iPhone from the infotainment port for non-chase mode, or for phone calls in chase mode. This works, but is cumbersome to do while driving, and also results in the iPhone not charging during phone calls or non-chase mode.
I went to Micro Center this week and bought a nice USB 3.0 switcher that, in theory, should allow me to push a button to switch the iPhone from the Carplay line to the charger line. That should allow the Android to auto-connect to the infotainment's Bluetooth for phone calls and for non-chase mode. But no matter what I do, the iPhone will not connect to Carplay with the USB line going through the switcher. I bought two good Apple USB-C cables to go from the switcher to the phone and from the Carplay port to the switcher, but nothing works. The infotainment screen shows a "Scanning iPod" message briefly, then nothing happens. It won't manually connect via the settings menu either.
Has anyone done this successfully?
I recently changed my phone service to a new Android. I am keeping my old iPhone as a dedicated storm chasing device for use in the car. During "chase mode", it is plugged into my car's infotainment port to run Carplay for Apple Maps, which I think is the superior map system for chasing with Siri-dictated directions and other functions. The iPhone also runs Radarscope as a secondary radar display during chase mode. The iPhone is now pulling all of its data for maps and radar from my car's built-in hotspot via WIFI, rather than its internal cellular connection (which is no longer activated).
The Android phone is a smartphone-based 'dumb phone' used only for phone calls, texts and a music player (I never could satisfactorily get my mp3 library onto my iPhone). But to use the Android via Bluetooth, the iPhone has to be physically unplugged from Carplay. This requires manually unplugging the iPhone from the infotainment port for non-chase mode, or for phone calls in chase mode. This works, but is cumbersome to do while driving, and also results in the iPhone not charging during phone calls or non-chase mode.
I went to Micro Center this week and bought a nice USB 3.0 switcher that, in theory, should allow me to push a button to switch the iPhone from the Carplay line to the charger line. That should allow the Android to auto-connect to the infotainment's Bluetooth for phone calls and for non-chase mode. But no matter what I do, the iPhone will not connect to Carplay with the USB line going through the switcher. I bought two good Apple USB-C cables to go from the switcher to the phone and from the Carplay port to the switcher, but nothing works. The infotainment screen shows a "Scanning iPod" message briefly, then nothing happens. It won't manually connect via the settings menu either.
Has anyone done this successfully?
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