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In my opinion the Guide and Inform Services , news, weather, traffic etc are of marginal interest and are useable only when not driving - better off using the phone. Problems so far very few, found for some reason the USB cable was critical as connection to iPhone 5 occasionally crashed with a cheaper quality cable which charged fine, worked with data to laptop but was iffy with car-net. Any way I think i've managed to get it working, so thought i'd post to share with anyone else on EE. In June, I got a Huawei E8372 "Wingle", stuck it in the 12V socket in the boot, and set it up as a mobile hotspot for the headunit to use for Car-Net.
Yeah, thats right, we 'only' have the Amundsen, which is why i was surprised when I though it had a hotspot. I thought I would share my experience of fully learning the infotainment system in my 67 plate GTi, which I bought in November. You can tether it when you plug it in to the USB port (with hotspot on and discoverable) and it will connect and continue working after you unplug.You state that you connect your iPhone to the Infotainment system using a USB cable, but then you refer subsequently to using only Apple CarPlay, Siri, Apple Maps, etc. Plugging it in with hotspot enabled then forces it to connect and it continues to work after unplugging. I've tried Google, but all entries seem to say how good/bad car sticks are without explaining what they do! I am assuming that you have not configured your iPhone as a WiFi hotspot and that the Infotainment system does not connect as a WLAN client. If you don't have the discovery nav you can still just use the mini wi-fi router to create a network without having to go through the head unit.
No, you can still plug your phone in via the vacant USB socket and use either Android Auto or AppleCarplay fine.
As a side note I mentioned that when i disabled hot spot on the phone while it was connect via CarPlay I retained a white globe icon (its red when i have no connction) and had access to Skodaconnect. other than give up and just drive it, because "it's a car, not a computer" as my grandad would've said. As a whole the only part of Car-Net I find useful (excluding in my case the very much used CarPlay) is the upload of destinations to the DNS satnav from the comfort of an armchair. Also the car can use the Carstick to create a mobile wifi hotspot which is nice, then you can use the Media Connect app on your phone to control the head unit. I understand about the VW Carstick, but its really expensive, and I want to know if its unique in some way or a more generic device would do the same job?
May as well connect your device to that rather then piggyback the system in the car - or am I missing something. Connecting to an EE iPhone over wifi hotspot is particularly slow (I've found it unreliable on everything, regualrly having to turn the hotspot on/off/on to make a connection actually access the interent).One of the reasons I bought the Golf was the inbuilt nav system was much neater, but I wish I had my old Tom Tom back now!
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