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Set up car again with wizard and worked straight away. One week later No Internet. Carried out the above myself this time. Worked for 8 weeks ish and then No Internet. As you can imagine this is like getting a new phone and setting it up again every couple of weeks and TBH getting a bit ****ed off with it. Internet connection - Personal Hotspot - wrong assumption. When set up the phone acts as a mobile wi-if router and can share its internet connection with any wi-if device, of which one is the DNS and therefore car-net. Haven't used with with any other hardware apart from Apple - yet! My son has an Android phone so I may try this out at some stage to see what the Android apps are like. Daft thing is, parked in the drive, it links almost immediately with my home WiFi enabling me to upload destinations input to the app. The nuisance is, without a reliable data connection the traffic updates don’t work. The other features of Skoda Connected I can happily live without. Siri works very well, activated by voice dial button on steering wheel using the car microphone. Functions better than my previous Golf which had voice control.
There are other wee examples too for example when you get low on petrol, it automatically shows you where you can find it and at what price, i love that.
I mentioned that the Apple IOS car-net app works ok with basic functions, those being Destinations and Time Manager which are really clunky imo but do allow finding and upload of new destinations to DNS via server and basic route timings. Connecting to an EE iPhone over wifi hotspot is particularly slow (I've found it unreliable on everything, regualrly having to turn the hotspot on/off/on to make a connection actually access the interent). Plugging it in with hotspot enabled then forces it to connect and it continues to work after unplugging.
Either a connection via wifi hotspot take a reasonable amount of time to connect, but if you leave it and then open Skodaconnect, it will work. In my opinion the Guide and Inform Services , news, weather, traffic etc are of marginal interest and are useable only when not driving - better off using the phone.Apple maps works well as an alternative to the DNS on board satnav. Great with Siri voice control, as is the iPhone dialler. Yes, Car-Net Guide and Inform (Basic) comes as standard equipment on my model. I did not want App-Connect which you appear to have. You state that you connect your iPhone to the Infotainment system using a USB cable, but then you refer subsequently to using only Apple CarPlay, Siri, Apple Maps, etc.. Can you connect via USB cable and use the Car-Net Guide and Inform services? As implied in my original post, this way of connecting is not mentioned in my Infotainment manual. As a whole the only part of Car-Net I find useful (excluding in my case the very much used CarPlay) is the upload of destinations to the DNS satnav from the comfort of an armchair. Car-net iOS app has basic functions away from the car, one of which allows destinations and poi from this app to be sent to DNS. Have you got a Columbus or Amundsen head unit? My Amundsen doesn’t have a globe, but a standard Wi-fi fan type symbol instead. Are you saying you can tether it via USB, or do you mean connect to the personal hotspot whilst it’s plugged into CarPlay?
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