Android Auto with TeslAA

[ngng]

While it isn't perfect, I'm impressed with how far the developer was able to take it. For $5, I'm more than happy to support the continued development.

The app uses your phone to encode the video output and stream it over a local VPN. The browser is as responsive, if not more responsive than the OEM map lol. Audio input works well too. I have the resolution set to 1080 @ 170 dpi.

TesAA for Android Auto™ - Apps on Google Play

Android Auto for Tesla Motors™ and any other browser

play.google.com

 

[laceyboy]

I'm just a bit skeptical about this development since tesla web browser sometimes crashed whole system for me.

 

[ngng]

I'm just a bit skeptical about this development since tesla web browser sometimes crashed whole system for me.

Some people have reported crashes. I was able to drive for 30mins without issues. I'll test on a longer road trip since that's really my use case.

 

[bhorn]

Is there any way this could work with MCU1?

Update:

I asked the developer and he says, no, only MCU2.

He was very quick to respond!

 

[Nathan W]

I have used this on a model S with the mcu2 upgrade, only issues so far is after about 20-30 min the music playback seems to falter and stutter and the screen size is off. I haven't narrowed that down yet. I will try your dpi setting and see if that helps me out. On a model Y I haven't messed with it enough to know why but it hasn't worked yet. Very neat use of the system though.

 

[ngng]

i'm having some issues with the phone not auto-starting services when i connect to the car's BT, anybody else experiencing this?

 

[dannycamps]

This is a clever implementation.

I had some issues and the developer worked hard with me to resolve. Turned out to be an incompatibility with my phone and Android Auto but a second phone I have works pretty well.

 

[bedoig]

@ngng Thanks for sharing this. I followed the thread a while back but just tried it out today. It worked much better than I would have guessed. Basically no issues once I got everything set up and went for a ~30 minute test drive (including getting in/out of the car a couple times). Pretty cool. Not sure if I'll keep it going since I find the Tesla services adequate for the most part, but definitely worth $5 just for the tech demo. It might take 30 seconds to get everything connected, but I did find that it enabled the phone hotspot and got everything running without touching anything as long as I left car audio set to 'phone' and kept the browser up. Pixel 4XL here.

 

[ngng]

@ngng Thanks for sharing this. I followed the thread a while back but just tried it out today. It worked much better than I would have guessed. Basically no issues once I got everything set up and went for a ~30 minute test drive (including getting in/out of the car a couple times). Pretty cool. Not sure if I'll keep it going since I find the Tesla services adequate for the most part, but definitely worth $5 just for the tech demo. It might take 30 seconds to get everything connected, but I did find that it enabled the phone hotspot and got everything running without touching anything as long as I left car audio set to 'phone' and kept the browser up. Pixel 4XL here.

i agree it has gotten better over time and also agree that i don't use it for my day to day driving, but it's nice to have the option. for the few bucks, i'm totally fine paying to support continued development.