Connected Pro

BlueWaveStudio

About this app

Connected Pro application allows to pair your phone with OpenAuto Pro using bluetooth connection. After that OpenAuto Pro will be able to read and display phone's notifications, automatically synchronize RPI time, auto-enable Bluetooth internet tethering and set automatic desired music player startup.

Ratings and reviews

It's nice to finally have time synchronization without an RTC (now I have no reason to buy one), as well as notifications, but the one thing that's really lacking is tethering. Not all phones or carriers support it, and in the case of my Samsung phone, it gets immediately disabled if I'm on wifi (for Android auto), which kind of defeats the purpose. There is a fairly easy way to do it (I think), but unfortunately, my idea is too long to fit here, so I'll post it on the forums.

Keeps running all the time. It could trigger on something, but instead they run a server continuously and no way to close it. Crappy development techniques make me distrust what the software ACTUALLY does. Regardless of my feelings, servers waste battery. Edit after dev response: I recommend taking a look at event receivers, specifically BluetoothAdapter.ACTION_STATE_CHANGED. that would remove the obnoxious banner and provide the stated benefit of the app.

Pretty good addition to have with Open Auto Pro. However I haven't been able to get automatic bluetooth tethering to function at all. Other than that, love to have it!

What's new

Small improvements.