My usual experience is navigation using voice commands while driving, and it worked seamlessly well, as did the wired connection.
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W – Experience Updates
Today I had a typical city driving session of about 5 hours with 5-6 stops and covered about 30 kilometers or so. This also includes expressway ring roads.
Equipment setup:
Our test phone was an older Motorola One Power with 4GB RAM and a Snapdragon 635 processor. The head unit is a Sony XAV 5500. The Pi board is currently bare, waiting for the case to arrive. The connecting wire has a USB C end and I had to use a USB C to USB female adapter that connects to the Pi board with a short cable.
Wireless connection:
The connection was seamless throughout this session. The experience was as good as the wired connection I’m used to from the past 2-3 years, except for the initial connection period which was obviously longer than wired.
operation:
My usual experience is navigation using voice commands while driving, and it worked seamlessly well, as did the wired connection. Typically, I listen to Flac music files loaded onto a thumb drive connected to the HU’s second USB port. However, for testing purposes, we used Wynk streaming music to simulate typical usage. Online music worked perfectly well along with navigation during the drive, which surprisingly exceeded my expectations, despite my reservations about the slow 2.4Ghz wireless band. I also used voice commands to play music, which also worked fine, with no lags or skips at all. It sounded bad when I received the call, but it was the only call I received during the drive, so I can’t comment on that. Check back for your calling experience later.
mobile battery and heat
Yes, I noticed that my phone was getting warmer every time I picked it up after the break. But it was acceptable. I’m surprised at how long the battery lasts. My battery level was 71% when I started and 35% when I ended the session 5 hours later after being in the car for about 2 hours. But this is Motorola One’s power, which lasts me two days during my normal desk job. Still, it’s nice to have wireless Android Auto available during city runs, at least on a phone like this.
But what worries me is that my main phone, a Pixel, gets pretty hot during mild use and has terrible battery life compared to this 5-year-old Motorola flagship. I’ll update when I do extensive testing on that as well.
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