Skoda 000051409F Surfstick Carstick LTE Connect, only for Amundsen navigation system (Gen. 2)

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I also use the weconnect app on my phone to send locations to the car before a new journey. Then when you get into the car it pops up on the screen with the new destination and you just tap to go there. As a whole the only part of Car-Net I find useful (excluding in my case the very much used CarPlay) is the upload of destinations to the DNS satnav from the comfort of an armchair.

Any way I think i've managed to get it working, so thought i'd post to share with anyone else on EE. You state "Personal hotspot on and linked to car.". I'm sorry but I don't understand this. I am assuming that you have not configured your iPhone as a WiFi hotspot and that the Infotainment system does not connect as a WLAN client. So what is a "personal hotspot" in relation to an iPhone? I'm driving the vRS to work tomorrow so I'll carry on experimenting to try and confirm these methods. In my opinion the Guide and Inform Services , news, weather, traffic etc are of marginal interest and are useable only when not driving - better off using the phone.

SD Card music - my car has the Dynaudio speakers - which sound outstanding to me. I wanted to give them something high quality as a source. CDs sound incredible, but so do does high-quality digital music files from the SD card. This lives in Slot 1 now, and has all my favourite music on it. I know most people now probably don't have a digital music collection like this, but I still do, so might as well use it. To my ears, it sounds better than either bluetooth-based audio, or my wired Android Auto phone using high quality Spotify streaming. Its also very easy to get to the album or artist you want, or just to shuffle the whole thing. Usually connected to USB, as VW CarPlay needs physical link for Spotify etc. This means battery drain is not an issue, the hotspot on the phone is not working whilst away from the car, but charges when in use. I also have managed to connect the Infotainment system in my car to the WiFi hotspot of my home router. No problem there. Haven't used with with any other hardware apart from Apple - yet! My son has an Android phone so I may try this out at some stage to see what the Android apps are like.

There was some uncertainty about whether you can tether the Virgin sim, but I've had 3 devices at once connected to it and had no connection issues, but it is painfully slow for browsing and streaming is almost impossible.I've been very impressed with the built in nav system compared to Google maps on Android auto. It seems better at not sending you down ridiculously small roads for example. I don't have an apple phone so can't comment on the Apple equivalent. Personal Hotspot on and linked to car. Both phones paym contracts allowed data sharing without any setup or cost. Problems so far very few, found for some reason the USB cable was critical as connection to iPhone 5 occasionally crashed with a cheaper quality cable which charged fine, worked with data to laptop but was iffy with car-net. Daft thing is, parked in the drive, it links almost immediately with my home WiFi enabling me to upload destinations input to the app. The nuisance is, without a reliable data connection the traffic updates don’t work. The other features of Skoda Connected I can happily live without. I don't have a smart phone at the moment. I'm trying to decide which one to buy and which SIM plan to get. I'm leaning towards an Android phone though. VW UK Customer Services say that they receive fewer support requests from drivers with iPhones than they do from drivers with Android phones. When I pointed out that there are probably about four times as many Android phones in the world as there are iPhones, they couldn't comment any further!

Have you got a Columbus or Amundsen head unit? My Amundsen doesn’t have a globe, but a standard Wi-fi fan type symbol instead. Are you saying you can tether it via USB, or do you mean connect to the personal hotspot whilst it’s plugged into CarPlay? If you don't have the discovery nav you can still just use the mini wi-fi router to create a network without having to go through the head unit. Car-net iOS app has basic functions away from the car, one of which allows destinations and poi from this app to be sent to DNS. As a side note I mentioned that when i disabled hot spot on the phone while it was connect via CarPlay I retained a white globe icon (its red when i have no connction) and had access to Skodaconnect. so I guess carplay also tethers it? Connecting to an EE iPhone over wifi hotspot is particularly slow (I've found it unreliable on everything, regualrly having to turn the hotspot on/off/on to make a connection actually access the interent).It is really getting off topic to discuss the relative merits of the iPhone and Android phones. I’ve been a Luddite for many years and have refused to buy a smart phone. However, my elder daughter has an Android and is very pleased with it, and my younger daughter has an iPhone and is equally pleased with it. And, having watched them use various useful apps on their phones, I’ve been persuaded to buy a smart phone. I mentioned that the Apple IOS car-net app works ok with basic functions, those being Destinations and Time Manager which are really clunky imo but do allow finding and upload of new destinations to DNS via server and basic route timings. Siri works very well, activated by voice dial button on steering wheel using the car microphone. Functions better than my previous Golf which had voice control. I am still not sure whether your iPhone is configured as a mobile WiFi router AND is also connected to the Infotainment system by USB cable – that is, you use both types of connection. You can tether it when you plug it in to the USB port (with hotspot on and discoverable) and it will connect and continue working after you unplug. I think tethering via cable will also work as at some point yesterday, the globe was white but it didn't say WLAN next to it, and it still worked (this was with hotspotting turned off, because I was also using car play to try and get the OneSkoda app working, but more of that on a different thread...).