Android Auto App
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Android Auto App
I've got an Android phone and Android Auto in my E 450 Coupe. Yes, I can see texts on the MBUX screen that come into my phone while driving. But not emails. Is there a third-party app that I can use that will give me some sort of notification through MBUX when an email comes in to my Outlook Exchange email account? Any recommendations for apps that have worked well for you would be greatly appreciated.
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Good question, since this worked perfectly in the older COMAND NTG 5*2 systems, but they did hide(!) this feature from the NTG 5*5 and later systems (MBUX = NTG 6 I think, the new S-class has MUBX NTG 7). They want you to use the paid(!) Office function, but that only shows your Outlook/O365/Google agenda from that day on your COMAND screen, no email. This feature might be re-activated using the famous Engineering Mode, but despite lot of attempts, noboy seems able to enable that currently..........(even the dealer needs a car specific password that they will not get easily).
I found a workaround, posted earlier, using the capability of the COMAND system to show the SMS messages on your (Android) phone on the cars screen: Notification Forwarder Pro (https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...org.groebl.sms ). This uses the BT MAP profile to show not only SMS, but also emails AND other messages, like WhatsApp, etc on your COMAND screen (limited by about 1 page of text, that seems enough for most important emails), the COMAND system can even speak these messages out loud for you, so no safety issue here
I found a workaround, posted earlier, using the capability of the COMAND system to show the SMS messages on your (Android) phone on the cars screen: Notification Forwarder Pro (https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...org.groebl.sms ). This uses the BT MAP profile to show not only SMS, but also emails AND other messages, like WhatsApp, etc on your COMAND screen (limited by about 1 page of text, that seems enough for most important emails), the COMAND system can even speak these messages out loud for you, so no safety issue here
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Unfortunately, Notification Pro doesn't work. I contacted the developer of the app and he says it wasn't designed for Android Auto. Anyone else out there know a way to get email notifications from your Android phone (not just texts) to appear on the MBUX screen?
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=> If you want to give it another try, FIRST pair your phone via bluetooth to your car (do not connect the phone via cable yet!), and see it you can make phone calls, etc, then config the notification forwarder pro app, and see if messages get through, if that all works, connect the phone via cable to your car and config Android Auto. Hope that works for you!
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I think my issue relates to the "config" of the Notification Forwarder Pro app. It's on my phone and gets my text messages. But my emails don't come into the app and I've gone into settings multiple times and can't figure out how to make that happen.
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I've now got the app showing up on the car screen. So it's connected to Android Auto and does show my text messages. Just can't figure out how to funnel my email notifications into the app in addition to the texts.
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Pity it does not work flawlessly..........you of course Whitelisted Email (and for example facebook, whatsapp, etc) in the NFPro app? For testing you can Whitelist ALL apps, but you got every popup on your cars screen, so when it works, better limit it to a few important apps.
I got it working on several Sony Xperia's with Android 8, 9, 10 and 11 (use the app already for years, on several cars with COMAND NTG 5*1, 5*2, 5*5 (current car) and MBUX 6 (this was a loaner from the dealer)).
I got it working on several Sony Xperia's with Android 8, 9, 10 and 11 (use the app already for years, on several cars with COMAND NTG 5*1, 5*2, 5*5 (current car) and MBUX 6 (this was a loaner from the dealer)).
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Finally figured out how to get it to work ... hadn't configured the app properly. It's added some nice functionality to my MBUX system. Thanks so much, HAWKiS63!
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Right, but if I dont use AA, will I be able to get email thru command the same way I get my SMS using this app? Or does this ONLY work when using AA so therefore plug it in and use this app?
Hope that makes sense.
Hope that makes sense.
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OK so I now know...after a minute in my car my watch buzzed to let me know i got a notification. I looked on the command screen and the SMS icon was lit up with the notice of 1 new message. I opened it and it was an email instead of a text. So I didnt need to use AA in order to get my phone to send all whitelisted app notifications.
Pretty cool. Thanks
Pretty cool. Thanks
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OK so I now know...after a minute in my car my watch buzzed to let me know i got a notification. I looked on the command screen and the SMS icon was lit up with the notice of 1 new message. I opened it and it was an email instead of a text. So I didnt need to use AA in order to get my phone to send all whitelisted app notifications.
Pretty cool. Thanks
Pretty cool. Thanks
Only limitation is number of characters, but most normal emails get through.
Extra bonus: the COMAND system can then speak out the message to you by voice (like SMS), so you don't have to look at the screen anymore!
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That is exactly how this NFPro app should work. You can get ANY phone app notification get through to your COMAND system, but you have to whitelist it in the NFPro app to do that. You can whitelist all, but then you get crazy with all these messages appearing, so I only selected SMS, email, whatsapp, telegram and a few others.
Only limitation is number of characters, but most normal emails get through.
Extra bonus: the COMAND system can then speak out the message to you by voice (like SMS), so you don't have to look at the screen anymore!
Only limitation is number of characters, but most normal emails get through.
Extra bonus: the COMAND system can then speak out the message to you by voice (like SMS), so you don't have to look at the screen anymore!
So far so good. though.
