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Thinking this one through you end up with the statement "well of course it won't work" but it took some figuring out
So the new IoS app is out. Fantastic!
The problem is that it is incompatible with Apple Car Play or to be more precise it cannot coexist with Car Play.
So the Nextbase app creates a bluetooth connection with the camera however if you want to transfer files or use live view etc then it fire up a wifi connection (the app refers to it as a High Speed Connection) to make the transfer.
Apple Car Play uses Bluetooth to connect to the car and then also sets up a wifi connection with the car for all the high bandwidth stuff. Can you see where this is going.
Whilst an iPhone can have multiple bluetooth connections at the same time, it cannot have multiple wifi connections.
So the Nextbase app tries to make a connection to the camera. The phone prompts you and if you say yes, you find yourself connected with the ability to view and download files but only for a few seconds before the connection drops.
The reason is that when it makes the connection to the camera, the wifi Car Play connection is dropped. Music stops playing, maps or Waze etc stops playing and Car Play stops working. But Apple have set thing up so that the phone tries to reconnect to the car and when it does, the connection to the camera is dropped!
To disable Car Play either on the car or the phone is easier said than done. In the car (well on BMW systems anyway) requires you to delve into many sub menus and then once you have done that, to reconnect means you need to set the phone up from scratch each time!
I don't believe there is an easy fix here for Nextbase to perform. This is not a bug on their part or a fault but just that you have 2 systems trying to do the same thing at the same time.
So if you run with Apple Car play, the app is going to deliver very limited functionality. Grrrr
So the new IoS app is out. Fantastic!
The problem is that it is incompatible with Apple Car Play or to be more precise it cannot coexist with Car Play.
So the Nextbase app creates a bluetooth connection with the camera however if you want to transfer files or use live view etc then it fire up a wifi connection (the app refers to it as a High Speed Connection) to make the transfer.
Apple Car Play uses Bluetooth to connect to the car and then also sets up a wifi connection with the car for all the high bandwidth stuff. Can you see where this is going.
Whilst an iPhone can have multiple bluetooth connections at the same time, it cannot have multiple wifi connections.
So the Nextbase app tries to make a connection to the camera. The phone prompts you and if you say yes, you find yourself connected with the ability to view and download files but only for a few seconds before the connection drops.
The reason is that when it makes the connection to the camera, the wifi Car Play connection is dropped. Music stops playing, maps or Waze etc stops playing and Car Play stops working. But Apple have set thing up so that the phone tries to reconnect to the car and when it does, the connection to the camera is dropped!
To disable Car Play either on the car or the phone is easier said than done. In the car (well on BMW systems anyway) requires you to delve into many sub menus and then once you have done that, to reconnect means you need to set the phone up from scratch each time!
I don't believe there is an easy fix here for Nextbase to perform. This is not a bug on their part or a fault but just that you have 2 systems trying to do the same thing at the same time.
So if you run with Apple Car play, the app is going to deliver very limited functionality. Grrrr