[Balvenie]

Updated to 2.4, audio wagon kind of works, but I have to but I have to remove the USB stick and plug it back in every time I get in the car. I haven't had enough time to try a different USB stick yet

 

[Earl_H]

I got a 2.5 update (at the local Volvo Dealers) and find Audiowagon works OK but for one small problem.

The button to "allow" Audiowagon is so small and very close to the huge "dismiss" button that I often press the wrong one.

@MoleMan - For all of us who have blunt fingers - can we have a bigger button?

 

[MoleMan]

The button to "allow" Audiowagon is so small and very close to the huge "dismiss" button that I often press the wrong one.
@MoleMan - For all of us who have blunt fingers - can we have a bigger button?

The size of most of the graphical elements is not under my control, you have to ask Polestar/Volvo for that.

 

[Balvenie]

Updated to 2.4, audio wagon kind of works, but I have to but I have to remove the USB stick and plug it back in every time I get in the car. I haven't had enough time to try a different USB stick yet

Sorted this out, my phone was starting its media player when it connected to the Bluetooth connection in the polestar and overriding audiowagon.

 

[Earl_H]

The size of most of the graphical elements is not under my control, you have to ask Polestar/Volvo for that.

Ah well - "all is lost in the stampede for corporate branding"

 

[Southwestwall]

Been busy with my new ride, three weeks and 800 miles have rocketed by. I have a couple of minor issues that I am guessing are owing to the OS rather than the app:

I get the 'USB device not supported' error advisory every startup, which I cancel and the flash drive works anyway, followed by the 'allow AudioWagon' message, which when I tick the option to allow every time it does not work, possibly because it refers to a setting in a category that does not appear to exist in System > Apps > Downloaded.

The bugbear with these dialog boxes is that if not acknowledged they can quickly become hidden beneath the other OS pages but remain active, which then results in a black screen with the whole OS being inaccessible until the messages can be responded to. I have ended up in this black screen lock out condition a couple of times now. First time even powering the system off and on didn't reset the messages and I had to exit and lock the car to get access back; the last time I managed to regain access by taking an inspired stab at where I thought the OK button was on the black screen, pure fluke.

Every startup, I guess owing to the not supported message above, once the messages are acknowledged the system insists on reading the whole drive contents before playing music. It might seem like a first world problem, but a 128GB stick with a couple of thousand FLAC tracks on takes a while to read, When it finishes, it does return to the previous point in the last played track, so AudioWagon is caching where it left off.

Minor things overall, but the message boxes problem can cause a frustrating OS lockout if not attended to in good time.

 

[Mick]

The USB message is from the OS so not in his control - I hope an AAOS update at some point gets rid of that. The "Allow" permissions dialog is also something that is goofy with how the AAOS instance handles the app permissions on the USB interface, also something I hope can be fixed with an update. @MoleMan might have something he can do there, but I'm pretty sure it requires something on the OS side. What I do is just wait and dismiss the dialogs before I do anything else and that typically works. You can also unplug and replug the USB drive and it usually clears things up (but might cause a rescan).

On the startup scanning, there is a setting that caches the scan and only rescans on demand, it's in the app settings somewhere. I can't remember where exactly, but I'll try to remember to find where it is next time I'm in the car. Note that it still reads in the index database that has been cached, but it's way faster. I have a few thousand tracks on my USB stick also and it takes less than a minute to read it all in on startup once cached.

BTW, his Github instance is the best place to suggest changes and report bugs: GitHub - MoleMan1024/audiowagon: AudioWagon will play audio files from an attached USB flash drive in cars equipped with Android Automotive OS

@MoleMan is pretty responsive and if you want I imagine he would consider pull requests if you want to hack on his code. I keep trying to convince myself I would spend some time and learn the code and do the same, but I'm also fully aware that my coding skills are in a sad state of atrophy these days. 🙁

 

[jameswjd]

Need assistance!

Loaded the App in our Volvo XC40 so we could listen to all of our music stored on USB sticks and it worked great for about a week. Then yesterday the screen which should show the loading of files from the USB stick says "No Files Can Be Found." I've tried all of our music USB sticks and the same screen stays stuck in place. I even tried removing the App and then re-installing it. Same result.

Hopefully, MoleMan or someone else can tell me what is wrong. Thanks for the help.

 

[Mick]

MoleMan1024/audiowagon

AudioWagon will play audio files from an attached USB flash drive in cars equipped with Android Automotive OS - MoleMan1024/audiowagon

github.com

Best way to interact with him is via his GitHub. You can also look at the code and see if there's an obvious fix you could contribute (will need to know Kotlin I think). The link is to the Issues page - you can add a new issue and put the problem you're experiencing in the description and @MoleMan will respond once he sees it.

 

[jameswjd]

Thanks for the help, Mick.

 

[Othurman]

Sorted this out, my phone was starting its media player when it connected to the Bluetooth connection in the polestar and overriding audiowagon.

This is very helpful, but could you say what you did to fix? Do you have to turn off Bluetooth on your cell phone?

 

[Balvenie]

This is very helpful, but could you say what you did to fix? Do you have to turn off Bluetooth on your cell phone?

I use 'Poweramp' as my media player on my phone and it has a setting that would automatically start playing when it connects to a Bluetooth media device (headphones, portable speaker etc).

Turning these settings off solved my issue.

Now when I get in my car, I wait a couple of seconds for Audiowagon to start and accept the two pop-up before doing anything else.

I keep bluetooth turned on on my phone all the time.

I hope that helps

 

[marhermi88]

Todavía no tengo la estrella polar, pero puedo ayudar a traducir al español mientras llega.

 

[Othurman]

I use 'Poweramp' as my media player on my phone and it has a setting that would automatically start playing when it connects to a Bluetooth media device (headphones, portable speaker etc).

Turning these settings off solved my issue.

Now when I get in my car, I wait a couple of seconds for Audiowagon to start and accept the two pop-up before doing anything else.

I keep bluetooth turned on on my phone all the time.

I hope that helps

Yes, thank you.

 

[krheinwald]

With 2.7, both USB ports can be used for music playback.

Most likely a bug

 

[nandapaik]

Hi there,

for the last months I have been trying to develop a USB media player that will work with a Polestar 2... and I succeeded .
I am planning on releasing this project as free and open source software soon but I wanted to ask for some help first. I am currently looking for:

• beta testers (to find issues that I can fix before releasing)
• native speakers to volunteer to translate the app (right now I only have it in English and German)

If you are interested in this project or want to contribute as beta tester or translate something, you can find more information here:
Audiowagon documentation

Thanks and best regards,
MoleMan

just found out about this. would love to help out with Korean translations.... alas.... Polestar hasnt opened the app store here yet....

Will definitely get in touch with you once they do though.

(FYI: polestar2s in Korea come with preconfigured apps only and we cant add or delete anything. no internet browser either. This has to do with polestar teaming up with a telecom provider here and so the car only comes with a few apps that the telecom company provides, mainly a local navigation app and voice assistant. this is a trade for them providing drivers with 5years free connectivity and being in charge of local app integration i guess)

 

[Sifgtyalk]

Great project!

 

[StevefromPSP]

Any chance you can support exFAT filesystem? I have a lot of music and cannot format the drive to FAT32.

 

[stevelup]

Filesystem support is determined by the car rather than AudioWagon.

 

[MoleMan]

Any chance you can support exFAT filesystem? I have a lot of music and cannot format the drive to FAT32.

Hi. That is unlikely to happen, FAT32 works fine. Did you check the how to use section on the website? On Windows you will need an external tool to be able to format as FAT32.

Filesystem support is determined by the car rather than AudioWagon.

Actually in this case the filesystem reading/writing is implemented by AudioWagon (via an external library), not by the Android OS underneath. So in general supporting more filesystems might be possible, but would just be too much work.