bradenfontaine
The Mad Man
a word to the wise, if you have your daughter in the car and the wife sends a dirty text... you will regret it, only complaint about this feature.
a word to the wise, if you have your daughter in the car and the wife sends a dirty text... you will regret it, only complaint about this feature.
Assuming you set Moto to read texts aloud, I found it only reads aloud when I have the stereo set to my phone as a source, via Bluetooth pairing. That means paying music from the phone and not the car radio. It does not work otherwise, phone issue! I have only been able to hear voicemails over the car speakers otherwise. Definitely irritating and haven't found a solution anywhere.
Assuming you set Moto to read texts aloud, I found it only reads aloud when I have the stereo set to my phone as a source, via Bluetooth pairing. That means paying music from the phone and not the car radio. It does not work otherwise, phone issue! I have only been able to hear voicemails over the car speakers otherwise. Definitely irritating and haven't found a solution anywhere.
I've read through this thread and have some questions and maybe a "fix" for some of you too.
I'm not a smart phone expert so bear with me
I have my phone paired with my car's Bluetooth radio. I do not use my phone for listening to media in my car... I listen to FM radio via my Pioneer car radio 99% of the time. I have my phone paired with my radio primarily for making and receiving phone calls. I've had the phone for about 2 weeks and did not originally setup Moto Assist but did the other day. Previous to this I have been using MacroDroid (very nice program like Tasker but much more user friendly) to read my texts when my phone is connected to my car's Bluetooth. This works even while connected to Bluetooth so for you guys who don't want to keep turning your media on and off in order for the phone to read your texts, MacroDroid may be an option for you. Now that I have Moto Assist setup and driving mode set to ON, I'm not even sure what driving mode is doing for me since I'm using MacroDroid to read my texts and notifications? Maybe nothing? I'm pretty sure MacroDroid is "over-riding" Moto Assist because my phone is reading texts even when connected to BlueTooth.
My only gripe about my setup is that the phone speaking texts via the phone's speaker while in a moving car with the FM radio playing is rather pointless because you can't hear it! I've been trying unsuccessfully to get the car's speakers to output the text message (while listening to FM radio) instead of just the phone's speaker.
1) Is it even possible with the Turbo to have the car's speakers output the text when listening to FM radio or something OTHER than the car radio using the phone's media like Pandora or playing the music on the phone? I know it works over the car's speakers if listening to phone music in my car but I'd like it to work while listening to FM radio.
2) Does ANY phone do what I'm wanting to do? I did some Internet searching and it seems like some Bluetooth devices like headsets WILL play back texts over the Bluetooth device's speakers but that could be because it is constantly connected?
3) If the Turbo won't do this by itself, do you know of any third party apps that will make this function happen?
I think I am "close" to getting this to work but haven't quite got it figured out. I have noticed that while using Moto Assist if I press the button on my car radio which makes my phone listen for a command (like when I want to voice dial somebody from my phonebook) that the car radio gets put in a mode where I CAN hear texts being read from the phone. If there were an App that could activate this command automatically when a text/notification is received, read the text/notification, then cancel the action, I do believe I'd get the function I'm looking for to where I can hear the text messages on my car's speakers while listening to FM radio. Any comments on this? I think MacroDroid may be able to do this I just need to play with it some more to see what command (if any?) will activate my radio's "listen to your phone" mode.
Thanks!
It reads my texts through the navigation unit on my 2015 jeep grand Cherokee.
I need to disable that feature though. As a single guy could cause huge trouble if a girl is riding shotgun. ;-)
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Just FYI, I took the LP update and was pleasantly surprised today while driving my car and listening to FM radio that alll of a sudden my car radio acted like I got a call from MYSELF then OVER MY CAR SPEAKERS told me that I had a text and if I wanted to hear it. I said Listen or whatever it told me to say and it read the text over the car speakers then asked if I wanted to reply. I said yes and spoke my text through my installed car stereo sun visor mic, it repeated it back to make sure it was correct then sent it and then my FM radio came back on! Excellent!
With MacroDroid I should now be able to get other notifications to "activate" my car's bluetooth connection to the phone and read notifications over the car speakers. While I haven't verified it 100% yet, it appears the wants I spoke of above have happened in this new LP update. Very happy... now if only my camera would stop causing the phone to reboot I'll be good. LOL