topic Not entering car mode automatically with my device in Android

Not entering car mode automatically with my device

Combatter — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:00:55 GMT

Spotify does not enter car mode when it connects to the bluetooth FM adapter I have in my car. How do I tell Spotify that it should switch into car mode whenever my Android phone connects to it? Surely it should be as simple as choosing the device from a menu?

"Switch to car mode" is set to "Only in a car" in my settings.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Not entering car mode automatically with my device

KYCommuter — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 18:54:14 GMT

As far as I can tell, there is some code built into the Spotify app that tells it whether or not it's connected to a car's bluetooth device specifically. For example, spotify does automatically switch to car mode in my Wife's Honda Pilot. My car is older and doesn't have integrated bluetooth, so I bought an add-on kit that I like very much, but Spotify doesn't recognize it as a car's bluetooth and doesn't switch automatically. I've even tried renaming the bluetooth device to "look like" the one in my wife's Pilot, but that didn't work either.

Re: Not entering car mode automatically with my device

Combatter — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:34:51 GMT

Thanks. It seems ludicrous that it's not customisable though. It'd be much better if I could identify a bluetooth device as being "my car" to Spotify