I have a MK7.5 Golf R and looking for the best wireless Apple CarPlay device. Online research is pointing me to the AAWireless TWO+ but wanted to know if anyone had any first hand experiences to share with performance and stability?
Looks like I am gonna stick to wired now
Just started using the AAWireless dongle in my 2019 Honda Civic. All going fine but there is one thing I just wanted to check.
For short, local trips I don't bother opening the ICE screen on the car which means it does not launch AA. Instead it remains with a vanilla Bluetooth connection between car and phone and I can still happily play music/podcasts from my phone using the steering wheel controls to Play/Pause/Skip etc while the screen defaults to a wallpaper with clock display.
But ... I have noticed from the Macrodroid user log on my phone that while I am doing this that the AAWireless dongle is repeatedly connecting / disconnecting with Bluetooth to my phone. Once every 30 seconds. Is this normal, expected behaviour? Is there any simple trick to automate this not happening?
Unplugging the dongle would work but a bit of a faff to keep doing that and I am quite happy to let it happen for these short trips as long as the dongle is happy and not suffering in the long term.
Tried a few dongles but all of them connect to the car's bluetooth, and upon restart, AA just doesn't want to work unless I disconnect my car's bluetooth first. Tried a friend's AAWireless and that works purely on Wifi once connected, no bluetooth connection to the car itself required.
Question is, is there anything similar for cheaper? AAWireless is more than 60$. Or is there a workaround? I tried to make a 'forget car bluetooth' Tasker task which runs every time the car is shut off, but it's still a bit cumbersome.
After receiving the v11 upgrade notice this past week, I tried upgrading my unit. After doing so, my unit seems to be bricked and won't power on, despite trying multiple cables, power sources, etc, etc, etc.
Has this happened to anyone? Any potential to recover? I've reached out to support, so I'm hoping they'll replace the unit after buying it a year and a half ago.
The changelog for firmware 11.0.0 is out, first thing mentioned is "Add support for the next generation of AAWireless"
Which kinda seems like a next gen box is coming soon.
I would prefer it to mean the AAWireles2 is getting a revamp, but it probably is a new device.
I ordered AAWireless2 last week from amazon and received it with FW 7.2. I don't have any issues with it so far with my car but it's strange that it comes with 7.2 when 10.2 just came out.
Should I stay with 7.2 since I don't have any issue with it or upgrade to 10.2?
thanks
I've had my AAWireless2 since maybe firmware 7.1.2.
Currently on 10.2.0, after maybe 25 minutes, android auto on my head unit closed and "android auto usb error" appeared on screen. The AAWireless itself showed a solid blue the whole time. Unplugging it and plugging it back in got it to connect again as usual.
Never seen that error before, so I think it might be something to do with the current firmware
To be honest I didn' have any major problems before, but now I'm amazed how quickly it boots-up, it is usualy within 15 seconds after I turn on my car. And also finnaly my car stoped asking me to confirm running AA every time AAW booted up (I did tick the option to disable this some time ago but it only reduced from two confrimation tap to one, and now it is finnaly gone.
Good job AAW team!