Bluetooth to Tesla

garyinFCCO — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 19:35:39 GMT

I run Spotify on my Samsung S8 phone (Android). A year ago I got a Tesla and I started using Bluetooth connection to send tunes to the car's sound system.

At first this worked the way I wanted. When I got into the car, Spotify started playing. When I got out, Spotify paused. But over time the "get into car" step got less reliable. For months now, sometimes the car doesn't see the Bluetooth source at all; sometimes it sees it, but not the Spotify source; sometimes it sees Spotify but hitting Play doesn't do anything; etc.

I generally have to dig my phone out of my pocket and open Spotify. Usually don't have to do anything, just open the app, and suddenly the player starts. Sometimes I have to hit Play in Spotify.

Any ideas how to get this to work more consistently? I suspect Spotify (i.e. not the car) since just opening the app will kickstart it.

Re: Bluetooth to Tesla

garyinFCCO — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:15:07 GMT

Aha! I may have figured it out. About once a week, the phone would pop up a message complaining that Spotify couldn't run in the background. But I was always driving at that point, and it did play when I opened the app, so I didn't dig into the options to figure it out. Well a few days ago I finally dug into the options settings, enabled background, and now Spotify seems to be auto-restarting like it should. Apparently opening the app got it into "foreground" and ducked the background restriction, but now I've enabled it so it's not a problem any more. I hope.

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Bluetooth to Tesla

Re: Bluetooth to Tesla