I only use bluetooth in the car. I use it for calls and music. I have 2 cars that I need it to work for. I would imagine bluetooth wastes battery while on and not connected. I have searched for solutions. Most apps that do this in the market get bad reviews. I found a tasker profile that will turn off bluetooth after 3 minutes if it is not connected. However, when I get back in the car, I would have to remember to toggle it back on. Thanks in advance.
well you need a specific trigger that tells tasker to turn on BT.
for example, if you plug your phone into a charger every time youre in the car, tasker can detect that its charging and turn on BT while in a charging STATE.
Or, since you are most likely not connected to WiFi while in the car, set tasker to enable BT while NOT connected to Wifi.
I guess you could go so far as a location based trigger... but that uses GPS which in turn uses more battery....
Tasker is a powerful and flexible app.. I'm sure you can figure something out.
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I only use bluetooth in the car. I use it for calls and music. I have 2 cars that I need it to work for. I would imagine bluetooth wastes battery while on and not connected. I have searched for solutions. Most apps that do this in the market get bad reviews. I found a tasker profile that will turn off bluetooth after 3 minutes if it is not connected. However, when I get back in the car, I would have to remember to toggle it back on. Thanks in advance.
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I achieve this with the tasker plug-in AutoLocation. I have a GeoFence for my house, when I leave it triggers the Activity monitor. When the monitor detects driving Bluetooth turns on. I usually have bluetooth within 30 seconds of leaving.
Does this consume battery. Yes. In my case the hit has been very minimal.
You could also use NFC tags. I considered that but use AutoLocation for other tasks so it made sense for me.
You could use an NFC tag. That's what i used to to. Now a days I just leave BT on all the time and let my car autoconnect to my phone and have that trigger all my car stuff.
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I only use bluetooth in the car. I use it for calls and music. I have 2 cars that I need it to work for. I would imagine bluetooth wastes battery while on and not connected. I have searched for solutions. Most apps that do this in the market get bad reviews. I found a tasker profile that will turn off bluetooth after 3 minutes if it is not connected. However, when I get back in the car, I would have to remember to toggle it back on. Thanks in advance.
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There is a tasker plugin in Play Store called AutoActivity, it detects when your in car, bike or on foot,
I tried to connect my tablet for music in my car, but when I turn the bt in the settings and it becomes discoverable, my car does not recognize it. Anyone else?
I bet there is something on your car that causes this. If any other device can see your NPro, to car should too. Did you set your car system to some pairing mode? Usually they won't find devices unless you set BT on and set to pairing mode or so, or make your car discoverable.
Does you NP discover your car or not?
Spere said:
I bet there is something on your car that causes this. If any other device can see your NPro, to car should too. Did you set your car system to some pairing mode? Usually they won't find devices unless you set BT on and set to pairing mode or so, or make your car discoverable.
Does you NP discover your car or not?
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I connect my SIII to my car every time and it discovers it no problem. And my np does not discover my car, either.
I never really bothered to thing about this until recently, but I personally have three ways I use bluetooth.
1) My car, when I get in my car I want my phone to connect to bluetooth
2) My headphones, when I turn on my headphones I want my phone to connect to bluetooth
3) My home stereo, I only want this connection to happen when I initiate it
Is there anyway to manage bluetooth connections per device like this in Android? As it stands my only thought is to have my home Tasker profile disable bluetooth, but that's a hacky workaround and I'm hoping something better exists (also something that doesn't require tasker so I can make it work on my wife's phone too).
Trigger app should do the trick. You can create profiles for each BT connection.
I want to find a way for my phone to automatically know when I turn on or off my car while I'm in it. I will use tasker to turn on and off my mobile hotspot when I'm in the car, so my echo dot ,connected to aux-in, can play music.
tl;dnr: looking for a usb-powered-only bluetooth device that can connect to phones and doesn't involve the aux-in of my car audio. eg: usb-powered bluetooth speaker/speakerphone/input-device.
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My car doesn't have bluetooth, so I have been looking for some sort of bluetooth device that will turn on and off with the car.
I don't want to use any type of bluetooth receiver since:
I'm already using my aux-in for my echo.
FM transmitter is also out since I'm switched to aux-in.
If I have the bluetooth receiver audio go nowhere, then I won't be able to hear my phone's GPS navigation.
I thought about bluetooth hands-free calling speakerphone devices, but the ones I've seen all use batteries, meaning it'll not turn off immediately when I turn off my car and will also probably need me to manually turn them on when I start my car. Anyone seen a batteryless version?
Are there any other bluetooth devices that run purely off usb power or off the car charger port?
I just tried the nonda zua smart charger that is suppose to connect to your phone when you turn it on. Only problem is that despite it showing up in the bluetooth device list, it doesn't seem to be a device that you can normally connect to. You have to install their app and the app somehow connects to it, even though the phone's bluetooth icon shows no active connections. Maybe the phone will only show a connection to devices it has supported profiles for. I can't even get tasker or android's smart lock to sense that the device is near.
Anything else out there? Is there a bluetooth input device that runs purely on usb? I have a selfie stick with a usb component that charges over usb and has an on/off switch, and I'm tempted to test if I can power it with the internal battery and have it turn on automatically when power is supplied. But I don't want to break my only selfie stick yet.
I suppose I can pair some usb-powered speakers to a bluetooth receiver so that I hear my phone over the speakers. Any recommendations? Of course, the speakers must not have batteries.
Found this:
It's actually a bluetooth speaker that doesn't have a battery. No idea if it will auto-pair when usb power is on or if the lamp can be turned off.
Can't you use an NFC tag on your car mount? When you mount your phone it hits the NFC tag and since you use Tasker you can set it to do what you want when you touch the NFC tag.
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Can't you use an NFC tag on your car mount? When you mount your phone it hits the NFC tag and since you use Tasker you can set it to do what you want when you touch the NFC tag.
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I may not always mount my phone and it may just stay in my pocket. And I would need to remember to hit the NFC again when I leave my car to 'automatically' turn off the hotspot. I also sometimes forget to take my phone with me and was going to have the phone alert me when the car is off.
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I may not always mount my phone and it may just stay in my pocket. And I would need to remember to hit the NFC again when I leave my car to 'automatically' turn off the hotspot. I also sometimes forget to take my phone with me and was going to have the phone alert me when the car is off.
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How about an obdii car adapter? No audio and you get vehicle stats
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biggiestuff said:
How about an obdii car adapter? No audio and you get vehicle stats
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I'll look into that. I need it automatically connect to my phone without the need to install an app. I don't want to face the same issue as with the nonda car charger, which requires the app to be running constantly to connect and it somehow can connect without android showing a bluetooth connection to it.
I've decided against obdii adapter because I am unsure if android has a built-in profile to automatically connect to it without the aid of a third party app to constantly monitor bluetooth. And they are rather expensive, especially for the ones that are smart enough to go to sleep and not constantly be powered on and drain the car's battery.
There are some speakerphone adapters that don't use batteries so I'm going to try one of them and connect them to usb-powered speakers. Going from a Nexus 6P to a Pixel XL, I'm finding the speakers are now rather weak and adding external speakers will help with GPS navigation.
It seems to me the easiest thing to do would be to upgrade your car stereo. By the time you're done with all of these workarounds, it might be cheaper, too.
Either that or ditch the echo dot and use the phone to replace it's functionality. I'd go to an auto audio shop and see if they could install an ignition switch controlled power source running a proper Bluetooth to aux adapter and compare that to the cost of a new head unit.
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I want to find a way for my phone to automatically know when I turn on or off my car while I'm in it. I will use tasker to turn on and off my mobile hotspot when I'm in the car, so my echo dot ,connected to aux-in, can play music.
My car doesn't have bluetooth, so I have been looking for some sort of bluetooth device that will turn on and off with the car.
I don't want to use any type of bluetooth receiver since:
I'm already using my aux-in for my echo.
FM transmitter is also out since I'm switched to aux-in.
If I have the bluetooth receiver audio go nowhere, then I won't be able to hear my phone's GPS navigation.
I thought about bluetooth hands-free calling speakerphone devices, but the ones I've seen all use batteries, meaning it'll not turn off immediately when I turn off my car and will also probably need me to manually turn them on when I start my car. Anyone seen a batteryless version?
Are there any other bluetooth devices that run purely off usb power or off the car charger port?
I just tried the nonda zua smart charger that is suppose to connect to your phone when you turn it on. Only problem is that despite it showing up in the bluetooth device list, it doesn't seem to be a device that you can normally connect to. You have to install their app and the app somehow connects to it, even though the phone's bluetooth icon shows no active connections. Maybe the phone will only show a connection to devices it has supported profiles for. I can't even get tasker or android's smart lock to sense that the device is near.
Anything else out there? Is there a bluetooth input device that runs purely on usb? I have a selfie stick with a usb component that charges over usb and has an on/off switch, and I'm tempted to test if I can power it with the internal battery and have it turn on automatically when power is supplied. But I don't want to break my only selfie stick yet.
I suppose I can pair some usb-powered speakers to a bluetooth receiver so that I hear my phone over the speakers. Any recommendations? Of course, the speakers must not have batteries.
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I used to use a Bluetooth ODB2 adapter (and Tasker) for this exact purpose.
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Weudel said:
It seems to me the easiest thing to do would be to upgrade your car stereo. By the time you're done with all of these workarounds, it might be cheaper, too.
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This guy has the right idea, get an android auto head unit.
Weudel said:
It seems to me the easiest thing to do would be to upgrade your car stereo. By the time you're done with all of these workarounds, it might be cheaper, too.
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Do they make car stereo units that can mix multiple sources like aux-in and bluetooth?
I've had a cheap ODBII scanner in multiple cars for years and never had a battery drain issue. I honestly can't remember if my phone auto connects to it or not, last time I tried to read from it I couldn't because the latest Android beta update broke the connection.
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Do they make car stereo units that can mix multiple sources like aux-in and bluetooth?
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You're missing the point, android auto will do your music and satnav prompts over usb. No need for the echo dot at all.
Rockford fosgate "rfbtaux" cheap reliable and will do what you need
You can use an OBDII adapter for detection
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kanetik.bluetooth_profile_condition&hl=en
You can set the condition to activate your task when its near the adapter
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kanetik.movement_detection&hl=en
I just learned they also have this app that should bypass the need for the hardware.
These apps are not free, $1.49 each. I can vouch for the bluetooth detection app, might try the movement one.
I bought this for my car and it turns on when there is no key in the ignition and off automatically when the key is pulled out.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009OBCAW2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Hi all!
Got a new car that doesn't have XM (its a 2018!!!) I have the app, so I have been using that but it doesn't auto start like Sportify does. Is there a program I can download, or even maybe a developer or accessibility option that I can mess with to have the XM app start/open when the phone Bluetooth connects to the car?
TIA
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