#Home assistant on Google Automative

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neon mica
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I have a pretty new car with Google Automative (the Google built car entertainment system), and while I can install the home assistant app on it and login, I then enter a strange state.

The screen changes to the screen you get when you connect your phone to the car (Android Auto), with just some basic UI that allows you to change lights and buttons but no real dashboard.

And most importantly, no settings available. I was hoping that I could just install home assistant on my car dash (which has its own data connection), and I could then switch on all the "car sensors". Meaning it would send my range/location/odometer/... to home assistant without me needing to pull data through the vendor supported cloud.

Any ideas?
Eventually found out that I can enable the sensors from any other device, but I cannot enable the range remaining sensor. It can be enabled, but is disabled again after the app on my car refreshes. Strange thing is that this data seems to be provided to Android Autp

Ow yeah and being able to show a real dashboard would be super cool (and possibly illegal in some countries, and possibly violating Google TOS)

gleaming mountain
sleek plover
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I know a little about this subject and worked for a company where they recently launched an app for AAOS;

Google Automative is actually Android Automotive OS, a bespoke version of Android for cars, as you mentioned runs on the cars own hardware it is not Android Auto which runs on your phone and is essentially cast to the cars screen.

The caveat of AAOS is that you cannot run normal Android apps on it, this means that it is unlikely that you will be able to sideload the HA Companion app.

AAOS apps must follow the guidelines that Google specify, and templates can be downloaded on from their repo's. More information is available here (IoT in particular): https://developer.android.com/training/cars/apps/iot

Depending upon the manufacturer of the car (Polestar, VW, etc) they may have a forked version of the AAOS (similar to Samsung with One UI or Nothing with Nothing OS, etc) and may allow slightly different apps to run.