TESLAA - Android Auto for Tesla App

[thegruf]

came across this app a little while back.
Absolutely excellent for me. Remarkably stable in v1.4, some crashes but Tesla browser does that anyway.
I can't recommend Teslaa highly enough.

I dont use it all the time, but as Tesla dont show the "green google road clear" lines any more (bloody annoying- yet another useful feature removed) it is all too easy to get caught in a road closed scenario - where at least Google would show no green lines as there was no traffic making you immediately suspicious something was up. If for your not insignificant monthly payment Tesla included a traffic incident reporting service, perhaps I would have a different view.

So I use it selectively when I am unfamiliar areas or need to have additional confidence in the roads ahead - Waze shows camera and incidents, or Google maps because they're just better than Tesla ones.

Also is useful if the kids have to message me on Whatsapp

Downsides:
the phone gets very hot on vpn I assume as there is a lot of data transferred (Pixel 6)
if you try to press the mic button to talk a message - I get the car try to dial a mobile nr ending in xxx174 - not sure what that is about and havent had time to look into it, but frantically ahd to try to stop the car dialling whatever this number is.

If I'm honest I still prefer Teslawaze for the best maps but unfortunately that never is quite stable enough to be truly usable.

More of these apps the better.

Well done to the dev.

 

[Neilio]

I'm usually a fan of new tech and have the many scars of an early Android adopter but... why? What does it do better? In addition to the car's built in gubbins?

My fave would be waze or Google maps. Which give far better routing than the Tesla nav. Especially in traffic

 

[yessuz]

teslawaze never worked for me :/ what am I doing wrong?

 

[goRt]

teslawaze never worked for me :/ what am I doing wrong?

This isn't Tesla Waze, this is an android app that allows you to use Android auto in the browser

 

[yessuz]

This isn't Tesla Waze, this is an android app that allows you to use Android auto in the browser

I know.
there's another one, called teslawaze or something which essentially is waze via browser.

 

[goRt]

I know.
there's another one, called teslawaze or something which essentially is waze via browser.

I know, unlikely to get am answer here

 

[yessuz]

I know, unlikely to get am answer here

oh, btw, got it working again. so nice

 

[denru]

The major problem I encountered is that I cannot connect Tesla wifi to my android hotspot. The error message is "
Could not connect to network. Unable to obtain IP Address. Please check DHCP server settings."

I was intended to use TeslAA to provide off-line navigation when there was no LTE coverage, but I encountered the above issue.

 

[orion2001]

This may be a dumb question, but how does one get audio via the web browser? I just bought the TeslAA app and got Android Auto launched but I can't get any audio playing back. But then I realized that even if I navigate to other websites in the browser (like reddit, soundcloud), I don't hear any audio when playing any videos.

Not sure how many of this is supposed to work if Tesla doesn't enable audio playback via the browser?

 

[kelvin 660]

I think you need to set the audio source to be the phone. Check you have enabled the phone as a source and then select it via the drop down box that can be found in, say, the radio window.

 

[goRt]

Looks like 22.16 has returned to the browser opening where it left off rather than to the tesla.com home page

 

[jabloomf1230]

This may be a dumb question, but how does one get audio via the web browser? I just bought the TeslAA app and got Android Auto launched but I can't get any audio playing back. But then I realized that even if I navigate to other websites in the browser (like reddit, soundcloud), I don't hear any audio when playing any videos.

Not sure how many of this is supposed to work if Tesla doesn't enable audio playback via the browser?

It gets the audio from your phone. The car's audio mode must be Bluetooth.

 

[orion2001]

It gets the audio from your phone. The car's audio mode must be Bluetooth.

Thanks. Yup, felt really dumb when I realized that. Still feels weird to not have audio from the browser

 

[jabloomf1230]

Thanks. Yup, felt really dumb when I realized that. Still feels weird to not have audio from the browser

Don't feel too dumb. When I first tried the app, I made the same mistake. TeslAA is an ingenious app but there a few things about it can't be automated.

 

[Cnixon]

Recently I have had to start the teslaa connection 'manually' in the app because the vpn does not start. Any ideas?

 

[SlvrSurferr]

Is there a way to share the connection between an iPhone and android (I have an S22 ultra). My iPhone is my primary so I'm trying share the internet connection to my Android but I'm unable to broadcast a mobile hotspot from my Android...it says I need a sim. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[riad khoury]

I think it looks better on the horizontal screen since you don't have the OEM map behind the browser. But, nothing that I care strongly about.

Is there any way to remove the built in map display so tesla AA could be viewed in full screen?
Thanks
Riad

 

[Smileysam]

Thanks for the bump, just downloaded this and it works great on my MCU 2 screen.

I have very little to moan about now on the car.

 

[Tony Hoyle]

Is there a way to share the connection between an iPhone and android (I have an S22 ultra). My iPhone is my primary so I'm trying share the internet connection to my Android but I'm unable to broadcast a mobile hotspot from my Android...it says I need a sim. Any help would be appreciated.

Presumably you have a sim... maybe it's locked down to not act as a hotspot - some providers have been known to do that (although I've not personally come across it).

 

[Roy B]

Is there a way to share the connection between an iPhone and android (I have an S22 ultra). My iPhone is my primary so I'm trying share the internet connection to my Android but I'm unable to broadcast a mobile hotspot from my Android...it says I need a sim. Any help would be appreciated.

Most phones can only set up a hotspot using the mobile connection. You can't (usually) connect the phone to Wi-Fi and then enable the hotspot and expect it to share that wi-fi connection to other devices - if that is what you are asking.