Android Auto interferes with wifi connection

GroovyGeek

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I stalled an A139 pro into a 2023 Bronco this weekend and ran into a slight problem with wifi connectivity to the camera.

The Bronco has wireless Android Auto, which automatically launches a wifi connection to the phone when the car powers up. That precludes establishing a wifi connection to the camera. You can tell the camera to connect manually, and it does for a few seconds, but then Android Auto reconnects and that kills the wifi connection to the camera.

The only workaround I have found so far is to manually tell AA wifi to not reconnect automatically and then ignore a few prompts. This works but is very kludgy. Is there a more elegant solution?
 
Never mind, did some googling and indeed that is an unavoidable problem. The phone can have only one WiFi connection at a time and AA will take that unless prevented from launching.
 
I explained the problem to myself...
 
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