AutotecPro 14.4" Screen - Install and Tech Thread

[IU89]

Looking to order and thank you all for sharing the experiences with this unit over the year.

 

[ob917]

I’m sure this has been covered but I’m not having any luck figuring out how to watch YouTube on my auto tech unit. Is there any easy way to enable that stuff? I love the unit besides it not always auto connecting to my phone, getting stuck trying to go to CarPlay

 

[caleb]

What do you mean watch youtube? You can just download the app, or you can open the browser? The phone connection, and having to manually reconnect ofetn, is my biggest complaint about this unit, so I just bought a sim card for it and it now has it's own plan. $20 a month to never have to worry about the connection again. I've completely disconnected my phone and no longer use carplay on it. It has native apps for waze, audible, spotify, etc so no need for me.

 

[Darkwhip]

so I just bought a sim card for it and it now has it's own plan. $20 a month to never have to worry about the connection again. I've completely disconnected my phone and no longer use carplay on it. It has native apps for waze, audible, spotify, etc so no need for me.

This is what I would recomend also. The monthly fee is well worth the ease of use.

 

[ob917]

What do you mean watch youtube? You can just download the app, or you can open the browser? The phone connection, and having to manually reconnect ofetn, is my biggest complaint about this unit, so I just bought a sim card for it and it now has it's own plan. $20 a month to never have to worry about the connection again. I've completely disconnected my phone and no longer use carplay on it. It has native apps for waze, audible, spotify, etc so no need for me.

It seems im doing something wring trying to get the unit to connect to my I phones wifi or hot spot. The network connection issue is the message i get.

 

[Cody Templeton]

I've got this unit in a Gen 1, but curious if you guys have figured out any solutions to a few issues I haven't resolved yet -

I'm assuming the access to the stock Sync screen is done through the "Console" app? I've randomly found it at times, but also noticed that the "buttons" are inverted on it. On my old PX6 unit there was a setting to invert the stock radio display, but can't find the setting on this unit.

The other issue I've got is that to Wi-Fi doesn't automatically turn on like my PX-6 unit did, and I've gotta manually turn it on each time. It already sucks that Tasker won't automatically turn the Hotspot on on my phone when the Bluetooth connects anymore, so I'm hoping to at least figure out how to get the Wi-Fi to turn on on the unit automatically when it powers up.

Lastly, I noticed sometimes the radio seems to launch sometimes in the Sync screen even though I have it set to launch on YouTube. Anyone found a fix to that?

 

[Cody Templeton]

This is what I would recomend also. The monthly fee is well worth the ease of use.

Sounds like this is what I'll have to do to take care of my second concern above. I wondered if anyone had come up with a fix for it yet, but it doesn't look like it.

 

[caleb]

Sounds like this is what I'll have to do to take care of my second concern above. I wondered if anyone had come up with a fix for it yet, but it doesn't look like it.

Yeah, I got tired of the inconsistent phone reconnect so the standalone sim fixed it. On your first issue, it's a common issue and I believe Autotec has even said that's intentional and there's no way to disable it from going to the console. It is weird cause sometimes it will go to the console, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it'll open up the last app I had open (usually spotify), sometimes it will start playing the radio, sometimes it doesn't. Very inconsistent in it's behavior. There's actually some guys on the F150 forum that are really good with this radio, may be worth looking that up and asking over there.

 

[Cody Templeton]

Yeah, I got tired of the inconsistent phone reconnect so the standalone sim fixed it. On your first issue, it's a common issue and I believe Autotec has even said that's intentional and there's no way to disable it from going to the console. It is weird cause sometimes it will go to the console, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it'll open up the last app I had open (usually spotify), sometimes it will start playing the radio, sometimes it doesn't. Very inconsistent in it's behavior. There's actually some guys on the F150 forum that are really good with this radio, may be worth looking that up and asking over there.

I assumed the standalone SIM was going to be the fix for it. It's interesting the WiFi doesn't automatically just turn on like you think it would, but also, without Tasker being able to automatically turn on the Hotspot on my phone when it connects to the Bluetooth, I guess it doesn't matter because I still manually have to do that as well. The standalone SIM would take care of both of those things.

I have the default app set to YouTube and I'd say about 75% of the time it will open to YouTube, but the other 25% it opens to Console and sometimes the radio is on and sometimes it's not. lol I can deal with having to push a button to change the app, not a big deal, but having to manually turn on the Hotspot on the phone and then turning the WiFi on on the truck gets old every single time.