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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: Sootchucker on 08 March 2018, 08:40
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Hi all. Been looking over on another forum and they mentioned that if you had an Android phone (which I do -a Galaxy S7), that you can download an app called "Tasker" which can automate all sorts of actions.
What I'm after is being able to turn on the mobile hotspot on the phone automatically when the phone connects to the car bluetooth system, and then turn off automatically when it disconnects from the bluetooth system. This would then enable me to have not only the car-net services, but also Google Maps / Streetview and dynamic traffic information when on the move, without having to manually think about turning the mobile hotspot on for every trip.
Someone did try to explain how to do this but it was a bit complex with some coding. Is anyone a bit of a phone genius and can break the steps down in to simple blocks that I can understand please ?
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Try MacroDroid.... much simpler!
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Thanks Fred, I'll give it a try
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I've built a quick macro like you wanted, not tested it yet... will give it a go.
Have a feeling the problem will be that in later versions of Android things like hotspot toggle and airplane mode toggle are not allowed by Android any more...
But lets see - its a great idea btw!
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I've built a quick macro like you wanted, not tested it yet... will give it a go.
Me too, and I got the same possible issue message... fingers crossed for my journey home though! Cheers for the idea and app gents
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Swapped to E-robot....
About to try it...
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Just tried it Fred and it works like a charm. Great stuff - many thanks for the heads up.
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E-robot works... Mind you car net didn't connect but the hot-spot comes on with the car and off again when you turn it off. No idea why carnet didn't work... It is flakey
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I'll have a go with e-robot then as macrodroid wouldn't turn on the hotspot - it turned it off when I stopped though!
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Like I said, I tried the Macrodroid program you referred to, added a couple of quick macros - one to turn on the wireless hotspot when it connects to my specific car Bluetooth, and one to turn it back off when the Bluetooth disconnects. Works great.
Tried it with Carnet - all good and with on line traffic on the Navi maps and Google earth overlay and they all work as well. Terrific app.
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my problem is that car net just isn't connecting when my hot-spot is on... Why I don't know!
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Like I said, I tried the Macrodroid program you referred to, added a couple of quick macros - one to turn on the wireless hotspot when it connects to my specific car Bluetooth, and one to turn it back off when the Bluetooth disconnects. Works great.
Tried it with Carnet - all good and with on line traffic on the Navi maps and Google earth overlay and they all work as well. Terrific app.
Good stuff and glad it's working for you as it's a great idea. It must be an android version thing though as Fred flagged... I'm on 7.1.1
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Try E-robot... That does work without later android problems... Toggles my WiFi perfectly
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Try E-robot... That does work without later android problems... Toggles my WiFi perfectly
I've tried E-robot and it does toggle the hotspot and then my car connects but it doesn't allow an internet connection (carnet says no data connection) - it's as if it does half a job... creating a hotspot manually provides an internet connection no problem.
I've looked at Tasker too which is a complicated app but it suggests rooting my phone to make the hotspot work and I'm not sure I want to go there to be honest.
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Hmm, don't know why mine is working fine with Macrodroid then. Been working perfectly for the best part of a week.
I've even added a second set of Macro's to enable the wireless hotspot in the Wife's Polo Blue GT as well, and like my car, that works perfectly as well.
If it makes any difference I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S7 (running Android Nougat 7.0) - un-rooted. My head unit is the Discover Nav Pro (MIB II) with the supplied firmware from 2016 - 0343
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Yeah its weird. The hotspot (the one I use manually), comes on but carnet doesn't connect.
I've tried turning the hotspot on manually, then connecting my other phone to it and it works just fine. I can surf the net.
As Sooty seemed to get MacroDroid working, I'll try going back to that.
I have a few mins to go play right now, so will report back.
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Nope I can't get carnet to connect to anything. Have factory reset carnet and wlan, still won't work. Carnet fault I assume
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Cheers Fred but how annoying eh! I'm not sure it's Carnet for me though as I've ran the macro at my desk and tried to connect my other phone to the hotspot and it doesn't have internet either. But run the hotspot manually and my other phone can access the internet no probs...
Sootchucker - would you mind having a look to see which version of Android are you running please.
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Andy,
As I said earlier, my S7 is running Android Version 7.0 (Nougat).
If it helps, here is the macro list from my MacroDroid. The first two are for the wife's car and the lower 2 for my GTD
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4794/39895443485_0702c27044_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/23MqzpT)
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Apologies, I completely missed your post above! Cheers, Andy
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Well I got it working again... By resetting carnet, connecting to my home WiFi, resetting my password and then swapping back to the phone hot-spot... Just trying to automate it now. Bloody vw software!
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Got it all working 100% with macro droid now. Real easy. Current version of android on a s7.
Only bummer is that I use my second phone for this (work phone) and the second phone gets disabled when I have the primary one connected to android auto. Grrrr
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Any chance of some quick instructions Fred?
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Can't do screen shots, but here's a description
Click add macro
Under triggers...
Click connectivity
Click bluetooth event
Choose device connected, click ok, choose your Golf's bluetooth device name (VW BT xxxx)
Goto the actions tab
Click connectivity
Choose hotspot on/off
It will prompt that it needs permission to change that
click ok
Toggle the permission
Go back, choose hotspot again, ignore the warning with ok
Choose enable hotspot and ok
click the tick button (bottom right)
Give your macro a name (eg car on)
Add another macro, repeating the same, but choosing disconnect bluetooth and hotspot off, save as "car off".
Job done!
Takes about a minute to setup!
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Excellent thanks Fred