Purchasing a Raspberry Pi Zero W for Android Auto

Android Auto is a feature in some cars where you can connect your mobile devices with the system we have in the car. Android Auto is interesting and helps us do many things we would like to do on our phones. Though the interface is simple, many things we do from our cell phone can also be done from the car as it gives some enhanced features to the system we have in our car.

One of the most annoying things with Android Auto is that we have to keep our mobile phones connected to it all the time. Even sometimes if we shake the wire the connection is disconnected or interrupted. We cannot use our mobile phones with ease if we connect it to the car.

Recently I was searching if there was some option available to make this a wireless thing. I found a few dongles that were sold on Amazon and other places that offered wireless Android Auto. But they were all very costly. It will not be good to spend like 5000 Rs for this facility. That's when I found there was an option available with Raspberry Pi and the option also looked pretty easy. This was also suggested by a friend after using it and it appeared to be a solid solution.

I already had Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with me which was given to me by my cousin. He did some final year projects during his college days and after that, he never used it again. I bought it from him to do some simple home automations but ultimately after reading these articles, I thought maybe I could use the same Raspberry Pi to make android auto-wireless.

I did try what was given in the article and it did not work. Then doing a deep dive in understanding what went wrong, I found out that the issue was with the device compatibility. There was no support available for Raspberry Pi 3 B+ it seems because there was no OTG support. I have to now get back to using that for some home automations and that's why I have purchased Raspberry Pi Zero W along with the case from the website Robu.in. It cost me 20 dollars which I think is decent. The product might get delivered to me soon so hopefully I should be able to complete configuring Raspberry to help in doing wireless Android Auto. The outcome might look a very small value but it is of great help.

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