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Hi,

One of the challenges with the project is App compatibility, as not all media apps will present and allow metadata notification. However, for many users, meta data display is not a requirement as the smart phone itself presents that data with a dashboard mount.

But what is still highly useful is Steering Wheel Controls...which may be as basic as Next Track/Previous Track, or expanded to Play/Pause etc...

PodEmu already has a "simple mode". When this mode is selected, it would be great if PodEmu would expose 3 new "controlled apps":

1. Generic Media Player
   This setting would fire KeyEvents that Android would direct to the current media player
   mediabuttons. This would allow almost all Apps to be controlled, and allow the user to switch media apps without interruption. Albeit with the loss of metadata support.

2. Android Auto
   Similar to the above, but specifically targeted at the Android Auto app. The Android Auto app then directs the event to the currently active media player. Since many of use Android Auto as the front end (whether running on the phone or sent to the head unit), this would also allow us to navigate media with steering wheel controls, regardless of whether the app is Spotify or Amazon Music, to name just two. I have tested this with Tasker Tasks and it works.

3. Tasker
   For almost unlimited possibilities support a Tasker App that fires an Intent to Tasker with a payload representing the action. We could then build Tasker tasks to do almost anything! Maybe this feature is an "and" that works with the other App settings. If we create an additional Tasker App Control, as opposed to an alternate control (i,e, AND), then we should also support an App called No App. If that makes sense!

These 3 (related) changes would open up so many target apps - albeit in simple mode.

Hope I explained all that in a vaguely useful way.

s.

Hi!

Don't know if you remember me, I was the first one replying to your XDA thread :-) I never went to use your app back then because I sold my car. Now I got a 2006 BMW with iDrive and I'm finally using PodEmu with Spotify through Bluetooth HC-05 + AptX-Receiver, which works pretty nice! Some problems/feature requests I have:

1. On the very first connect, when I select iPod in my iDrive, it starts with a "Now Playing" screen (which seems to be some sort of playlist, because it's a sub of "playlists"). This is the perfect screen for me, because it shows only the actual playing track. The problem is, as soon as i press Back and go into another submenu (i.e. Songs), I can't go back to Now Playing, because this playlist/menu is missing. The only way to go back to this screen is actually doing a factory reset of the USB/BT control module of the car. Can this "playlist" somehow be implemented?

2. When i press play/pause in my car, the music app correctly pauses. But I'm unable to make it play again with this button. If I press forward/back it starts to play again, but the track info/time is frozen until I reconnect Bluetooth or restart PodEmu app. Also when I shutdown the car, it doesn't pause and keeps playing. With a regular iPod it does pause though. Anyway to improve this?

3. This is probably a bit out of scope. To have all fully automated (when getting into car), I need 2 more apps: Bluetooth Auto Connect and Bluetooth connect & play. The first one auto-connects to the AptX-Receiver as soon as HC-05 is connected (because my AptX-Rcv doesn't auto-connect unfortunately), and the second one maxes out Bluetooth Volume (very important, because it never ever sticks to max otherwise) and start playing Spotify. Would be really great if this could be implemented in PodEmu, so I don't need those 2 apps.

Let me know if you're interested in all of this and if I could help with testing or sending debugs or anything helps.

Thanks!

Background: The image download process is often unsuccessful on Bluetooth connections, resulting in a "lock up / frozen" state. When the image does successfully download, the PodEmu features and playback work correctly.

Request: Can you please add a "Disable Image Download" option to bypass this step, and increase the chances of successful connections via Bluetooth.

Thanks in advance! :)

All controls seem to function but it's not displaying the data right. Not sure if this is due to my adapter or a bug itself. Car is a 2008 5 series.

That would be sooo nice :)

Every once in a while I need to open PodEmu app to be recognized by the car. It seems to close itself after a while (maybe also due to OS memory cleaning or whatever). I already disabled battery optimization. I don't have this problem with the other 2 bluetooth apps I need, those always are running. Maybe you can implement some sort of watchdog? I also see on other apps the option "start on boot", maybe that would help. This is on Android 9.0.

This is probably a bit out of scope. To have all fully automated (when getting into car), I need 2 more apps: Bluetooth Auto Connect and Bluetooth connect & play. The first one auto-connects to the AptX-Receiver as soon as HC-05 is connected (because my AptX-Rcv doesn't auto-connect unfortunately), and the second one maxes out Bluetooth Volume (very important, because it never ever sticks to max otherwise) and start playing Spotify. Would be really great if this could be implemented in PodEmu, so I don't need those 2 apps.

On the very first connect, when I select iPod in my iDrive, it starts with a "Now Playing" screen (which seems to be some sort of playlist, because it's a sub of "playlists"). This is the perfect screen for me, because it shows only the actual playing track. The problem is, as soon as i press Back and go into another submenu (i.e. Songs), I can't go back to Now Playing, because this playlist/menu is missing. The only way to go back to this screen is actually doing a factory reset of the USB/BT control module of the car. Can this "playlist" somehow be implemented?

Does this suport sound cloud?

My car audio system (sony cdx-gt55uiw) has a USB port and supports iPod. Works without problem for the iPhone like it is an iPod and could play from any app on the phone. But if I use my android phone it will try to read it as a flash drive and plays the media that finds in the phone. The android phone (google pixel 2) has the File transfer/Android auto enable, and doesn't seem to send any audio thru the USB to be listened thru the car speakers.

Is there any way that an app can emulate an iPod and been able to use the phone as I have used the iPhone to play Pandora/Spotify/etc..? I did try the PodEmu but it is waiting for a serial adapter, it doesnt work with USB? I thought that was similar to an iPod docking station.

plz support apple music
select radio and playlists

Feature Request:

I have have a feature suggestion for the app: when it first loads and connects, the car stereo will display "Generic Track" etc, until a track is played.. As this idle state text appears when no valid media is playing on startup, could we have the option to set this idle "text" to something user defined, in the PodEmu app?

For example, I would really like to be able to replace "Generic Track" with something more friendly, such as "Ford Mustang", or, "Hello Pez!", etc... Often I don't listen to any music, but rather I have the PodEmu system connected to have BT media audio from Google maps, etc...

Additionally, If there is the option to have Android system information (such as Google Maps navigation information) displayed, then this could be useful also.

I'm still reading about how I should be able to get this to work, but I will detail what I have so far.

I have one of these: https://www.ebay.com/itm//332671609701 and I have plugged the phone into the USB A (female) port using a regular USB C (male) to USB A (male) cable. This does nothing because the board is not powered from the phone that way. I have plugged the board into a regular wall-based phone charger into the USB micro B (female) port and the LED lights up and my phone recognizes the device. It states that no application is installed to use the accessory and links me to ftdichip.com (so I know it's connected and reading the right chip VID:PID). PodEmu still says disconnected and PodMode says 'accessory attached' followed by 'model is not matched' which also tells me that it is connected and recognized but the phone is just choosing to do nothing with the device. I suspect that I have to change the device name to work with PodMode (by using the developer tools from ftdi and hacking together a 'null modem' usb cable from an ft232) but I expected it to work with PodEmu.

My head unit connects to my 5G iPod via a USB port (which I connect to using the 30pin to USB cable). Why would I need a custom cable if the connection is ultimately USB?

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Somewhere above I have a problem converting a character to hexadecimal. As shown in the debug log. Is it a character encoding issue? Is it possible to fix this bug?

For example:
2024-01-09 08:08:39 (000) : PodEmu - OAPM: MSG OUT | 04 | 00 21 | E3 83 AD E3 83 9E E3 00 B3 E3 83 81 E3 82 B7 E3 82 BA E3 83 A0 20 [ロマ�
This is how it should be.
Title:ロマンチシズム
hexadecimal: e383ade3839ee383b3e38381e382b7e382bae383a0

I’m curious as to if anyone has used this with a Dension Gateway 500 iPod dock. I’ve got an old Volvo XC90 that I’ve installed a new android head unit on (replacing the centre speaker that turned out wasnt there anyway) and while installing it I found this Dension unit installed behind the dash. I’ve got the android unit working with the analogue inputs on that unit and it’s actually working really well but I was thinking if I could somehow use this module with the iPod dock I’d also be able to invoke steering wheel controls and indeed be able to see the ID3 info on the car stereo when the music app isn’t on screen on the android unit (well.. Apple CarPlay.. the built in UI is horrifically bad!).

So any experience in this area?

Hey sweet project! Do you still have this dongle? It is hard to source parts. If you no longer user it we have the same car and I'd be happy to purchase it from you :)

Is it possible for PodEmu to work over the Bovee 1000 bluetooth to 30pin interface? Without PodEmu, the Bovee (aka ViseeO tune2air) only plays the music and all control is done over the phone. No metadata is transmitted and the device controls don't work.

https://www.amazon.com/Bovee-Wireless-Bluetooth-Interface-Integration/dp/B00B52LLJ6.

If a test unit is needed, PM me and one can be provided.

Hi,
Since the last update, PodEmu keeps crashing everytime I open my Stingray music application and crashes non-stop until I close Stingray (BTW its a music app provided by my ISP.
PodEmu_debug.txt

Note: heavily edited to help me pick parts.

Hi, great work on this code base, it really stands to improve a lot of ppls lives.

After a quick look in the readme, I couldn't figure out what parts were necessary. I also couldn't figure out where to get PodDock at all (Edit: I just found this after closing some tabs acutally... APPLE-30F-BO-V1A)! The closest alternative I could find was the part with the searchable ID APPLE-30F-BO-V1A but it isn't an 'in-line' style device, it's more like a part you would use when building an actual dock :( Any ideas as to where to find this, and does adding a section to the readme including parts sound like a good idea? e.g.

Parts List (Blue Tooth Build)

• Bluetooth Data Transceiver Supporting SPP (HC-05, RN52, etc.)
• Bluetooth Serial Interface (FT232R, FT231X, FT311D, FT312D, PL2303, CP2102, CP2105, CP2108 or CP2110)
• Bluetooth Audio Streaming Module (XS3868)
• 1amp DC-DC step down converter (LM2596)
• Apple 30pin Female breakout (APPLE-30F-BO-V1AC) or a $7 iPod Dock 30pin Female to 3.5mm adapter from ebay

Parts List (Direct Connect Build)

• Android USB to Serial Interface (FT311D or FT312D)
• 1amp DC-DC step down converter (LM2596)
• Apple 30pin Female breakout (e.g. the simple $7 iPod Dock 30pin Female to 3.5mm adapter from ebay)

the 30-pin cable is getting less and less day by day, and the connectors are switching to type-c.
so Is it able to use type-c connector to replace 30-pin connector.

Please add support for Amazon Music/Prime Music

Thank You