HD+ - Android Auto Support

Sorry, I should have said HSM support should be fixed with the latest update. I haven't done anything new with multiple button devices. I'm pretty limited with the number of buttons/options I can display on an AA screen so I'm not sure exactly the best way to display buttons. Plus, there's no long-press so only a 'click' is allowed on an AA button.

If you have any ideas how to handle a button -- either single or multiple -- let me know

It displays fine, actually (for single button devices, that is).

It's just that when I click the button, it appears that no command is actually sent.

As for multiple buttons, does the multibutton display that you just in the Android app not work with AA? If not, maybe you could show multiple single buttons on the inner button page (like for example locks where both the unlock and lock command buttons appear at once).

No, it's a very limited set of UI controls that can be displayed in AA. At least for the message dialog (pictured below) there's just 2 buttons

I suppose though I could use another grid view or a list view to show more than 2 options

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Ok, well I think the multi button view is a distraction for now. Single buttons do not seem to work at all in AA. Should we start there?

HSM in Android Auto is now working great. Thanks Joe.

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-- moved over to this thread since maybe others will be interested too --

I'm using the grid view (one of 2 AA UI's I can pick from) and it's primarily meant for an icon and a short label below; If I'm displaying a temperature or other sensor device would it be enough for the label to show the temp?

The HD+ app can display the text much larger but that's because I'm creating my own UI. AA doesn't allow anything 'custom' -- you have to use their standard elements (ie: icon + text) only
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It might be possible to create an icon/image on the fly that has the text embedded in it -- I haven't tried that before but it might be possible.. I'll look into it. That would be the ideal way to show sensors IMO

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Label text would be better than nothing. But icon text would be better if larger. Maybe the later for the Todo list.

just a quick update -- I was able to create an image from text so I'm working on that one now. Also figuring out how to handle buttons in AA too!

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I pushed some changes to AA -- detailed in this post; I haven't extensively tested them so let me know if anything isn't supported or doesn't look right and I'll look at it

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Hi one question. I noticed these days that the status gets updated in HD+ on Android Auto excluding the Mode and HSM. Presence sensors and switches get updated fine but above listed two status don't. They stuck. Is there a way to get this working?

Thanks

@jpage4500 any idea? I figured out that the status on the heads unit gets updated by opening HD+ on the phone which isn't neither comfortable nor allowed during driving.

Hmm.. I have an idea what this could be. HSM and Mode status doesn't come back in the 'get all devices' API call - they have to be queried separately. I'll look into if

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I just pushed a fix for this though it might take a day before Google Play shows the update. I don't have an AA enabled car so please let me know if you notice this fixed or not. I'll add the release notes in the main HD+ thread in a minute

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Thanks I will try it out and will let you know.

@jpage4500 tried it out today but unfortunately no changes.

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Today when I tried with it arming away, the AA screen immediately displayed the arming away delay, but never changed to armed.

If you're able to reproduce the issue and don't mind sending the device log - that would possibly explain what's going on. You'd just need to first enable debug mode.. link

I'll make a TODO to spend a little time testing HSM on AA

Was doing that this morning, however it's now working as expected setting Away after the Delayed Away.

@jpage4500 just sent a log file by email. Hope that helps and thanks for looking into this