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Crankshaft: A turnkey GNU/Linux solution that transforms a Raspberry Pi to an Android Auto head unit.
http://getcrankshaft.com
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Night Mode - Is It Supposed to Work? #368

Closed Aaron407s closed 5 years ago

Aaron407s commented 5 years ago

Is pushing the 'night' button on the CS home screen supposed to effectively switch to AA night mode, or is this not fully implemented? I noticed that it hasn't switched anything to night mode in AA for quite a few versions, only the CS wallpaper. I believe the last time that it worked for me was with CS classic.

Running in X11.

My sincere apologies if this has been captured somewhere else. I scoured the open and closed issues but couldn't find it.

gcharlie commented 5 years ago

I can confirm this should still works. I have the night mode function mapped to a gpio pin and when it activates google maps goes dark. A lot of the new UI though is dark by default, i think to be less distracting when driving but as a result less things change visually between day and night mode.

Aaron407s commented 5 years ago

Thanks. Switching to night mode through the menu, then connecting my phone, ends up with maps still in the normal daytime mode. Maybe I'll experiment with the GPIO pin trigger option.

gcharlie commented 5 years ago

There might be some options too that delegate the day/night over to the phone, so regardless of crankshaft AA only triggers night mode if the phone says so ...I thought I remember there being some setting like that. I'll dig through my settings tonight and see what I have things set to.

gcharlie commented 5 years ago

...or looks like this may be a Samsung issue https://support.google.com/androidauto/thread/2482734?hl=en

Aaron407s commented 5 years ago

Ah, interesting. I also just changed it in the AA developer settings to be car controlled rather than app controlled, so I'll see if it makes a difference. If not, maybe it is a samsung phone issue as you mentioned.

Aaron407s commented 5 years ago

Well, it would appear that it was the developer setting for day/night control that was getting in the way. I had previously set it to be car controlled, but I must have reinstalled at some point. At any rate, it looks like there's no issue and it's working as expected now. Thanks.