Only official place I could find MA-1 Motorola Wireless Android Auto in Australia.
Cheaper than what's being sold at Amazon AU ~$160.
Credits to original deal
Carsifi is $144 including shipping
AAWireless is $161 including shipping and GST
Ottocast A2Air is $84 but dooesn't support Sony after market head units
Ottocast U2-X is $93.45
I bought one just now for $114 + 15000 Telstra points after reading this
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidAuto/comments/tcgakh/motorol…
i have one and it work well. Just make sure that your phone don't put Android Auto to sleep.
Does that mean you have to keep the screen unlocked the whole time?
No. Just take it off the sleep list
I use this each day and haven't had an issue. 9 hour trip and no one drop out. Auto connect consistently and 10 second connection time.
Weren't these 99 duckets on release or was that USD?
It was 99USD. Now its 89USD in amazon.com
It's been on the rewards store since for 6+ months, this is the everyday price.
This is correct. I've added an upvote to your two negs. Your statement is correct.
Source:
I bought this in December for 54000 points. During the Telstra bonus 2K points per 10K spend bonus offer.
I'd been watching it for a while beforehand and it stayed at 54k for the time I'd been watching it.
It was always in stock and always 54k points. (Not sure if the points+cash rate was different, I was only looking at points solely)
This would have been early to mid December when they had the bonus offer promotion and I bought using most of my accumulated points…..
I don't recommend Ottocast for AA. It's real slow and a pain in the arse. It works on Apple carplay protocols so the conversion just takes forever. Maps lag and so does other things.
I think you need to clarify that that applies only to the U2-X which works with both Carplay and AA (by hijacking the Carplay protocol for AA). The other brands suffer from similar issues on their dual units I believe.
The Ottocast A2Air however doesn't run on the Carplay protocol, and in my experience works perfectly fine. I'd definitely recommend it over the expensive Moto unit.
Read up on these wireless aa adaptors a few times. I think I'll take the plunge on carsifi if it ever goes on sale. I have 2x aa devices so the magic button tips it over
I think this is not a motorola brand device, I think a company licenses the name similar to new MG cars in aus…. not sure what that practically changes with this though just makes it smell funny for me
My 2 yen - thanks for listening 🤣😁
To get now or wait. Have a Camry on order but hoping with wireless android being allowed in Japan Toyota update them before I get mine
Probably won’t be updated. I have the facelifted Corolla and it’s only wireless ACP
I have one. Unfortunately I do get dropouts whenever I am near a cell tower. I think it's partially this device, and partially the fact that wireless Android Auto is badly implemented.
It's funny you should say that….I thought was just my unit.
I contacted Telstra and said it had intermittent faults, where it would just drop out.
I have noticed there's two particular places on my drive to work, where it drops out every single time, so obviously, must be cell tower, or something in particular that effects the connection.
I have the map set to 'dark mode', couple times it's auto connected and the map is then in daytime mode, till it restarts.
Having wireless android auto is so easy, just a couple little idiosyncrasies.
My wife's pioneer wireless AA head unit is more stable than this. When it works, it's great. But it can be quite annoying when it doesn't. The issue is it doesn't have enough bandwidth when there is interference, and an 80MHz width wifi channel is very sensitive for interference. Not sure why they felt they needed 80.
I made the issue better by telling AA to use AAC compressed audio instead of uncompressed PCM. It is much more stable, and audio quality is still fine.
A couple times after its dropped out, in particular areas, due to cell.tower or other such interference….when it hasn't easily reconnected, as it usually normally does, I've just unplugged the USB plug and plugged back in, and connected fine.
I only remember ever having to do this maximum twice.
I don't really understand the MHz or what's better….
What did you change to get it more stable?
(AAC?)
@Spending2Much: Yes, changed codec to one requiring less bandwidth. Before that it was unusable if using map while playing music. You can change codec in AA developer settings.
A WiFi channel that is wider has more theoretical bandwidth, but is more prone to interference. A width of 40MHz would have been plenty and result in fewer dropouts and probably more throughput in practice.
What phone do you use? I use Samsung, and wonder if that's part of the issue, as I know other Samsung owners with similar issues.
@Make it so: S22+ phone and 2021 4wd dual cab.
Driving home from work tonight, it completely switched off, went back to the cars regular usual normal screen if not using AA. The stock infotainment screen is terrible having gotten so used to AA.
@Spending2Much: Yeah, that's what my Subaru does.
Using S20FE.
Try changing the audio format to see if it gets better. Before changing it, it wouldn't last 4 minutes.
No wonder tesla hasn't implemented
I got the CarlinkKit A2A for $99 on Amazon (special) and it's pretty pretty good.
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Thanks OP, was trying to work out what to burn my soon-to-expire points on.
I bought the Carsifi. I had a couple of niggling issues at first but works great.
I found that sometimes it wou;dn't connect, but you need to have BT and Wifi enabled. Also, turn the Notifications off for Android Auto off.
Ottocast A2Air works pretty well for me. No complaints. Save your pennies.
what does this thing do ? is it just 4g and wireless AP so that your car devices have 4g while driving and you don’t need to use your phone as hot spot or bluetooth ?
Just remove the need to plug in your phone on short trips. Also you can use fast charging instead of the slow one on the car.
With the title being android, can I assume from this that it would t work with an apple phone..
I'll look up some reviews!