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

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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.

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. Plugging it in with hotspot enabled then forces it to connect and it continues to work after unplugging. Set up car again with wizard and worked straight away. One week later No Internet. Carried out the above myself this time. Worked for 8 weeks ish and then No Internet. As you can imagine this is like getting a new phone and setting it up again every couple of weeks and TBH getting a bit ****ed off with it. All content is viewed and used at your own risk. We do not warrant the accuracy or reliability of any of the information. Either a connection via wifi hotspot take a reasonable amount of time to connect, but if you leave it and then open Skodaconnect, it will work.I've got my carnet code - and I've actually paid for another year because it was going to run out in November. Does the head unit automatically 'connect' to the Huawei E8372 when you start the car? you don't have to manually connect. 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. lightbody - I bought a dongle and it's worked perfectly ever since. No issues, nice and easy, never think about it. Your advice was really helpful, thank you. This is much safer as I can glance at the TomTom whilst keeping the road ahead within my field of vision.

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. 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. Your car can also connect to a mobile hotspot either on your phone, or via a usb "myfi" device that you can just leave plugged in if necessary. This will be fairly cheap and let you use all the car-net features including nav updates.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. Ah so it's just a wifi hotspot, using the van for power. You could plug it in to a battery and it'd serve the same function.

I'm driving the vRS to work tomorrow so I'll carry on experimenting to try and confirm these methods.I agree does seem silly to sell the car as having a 'wifi hotspot' when you end up using your phone or a dongle to make it functional! Internet connection - Personal Hotspot - wrong assumption. When set up the phone acts as a mobile wi-if router and can share its internet connection with any wi-if device, of which one is the DNS and therefore car-net. 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...). I've attached some pics to illustrate my original post above. The last two show me approaching a speed camera, and then on the main Nav screen a zoomed out version with all the speed cameras in the area. The speedcamera in between the dials is hard to miss I'd say. Possibly the DNS may use the Internet connection (*) to update traffic en route. It also uses traffic info via the radio system.

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. Yes - iPhone is mobile Wi-fi router when connected via its Personal Hotspot to DNS as a wi-fi client. The built in sat-nav, with car-net active and the maps up to date, is terrific, the traffic information is better and clearer than Android Auto Google Maps. 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. 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?

Any way I think i've managed to get it working, so thought i'd post to share with anyone else on EE. The views expressed herein are those of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of BRISKODA or SKODA. Its not the Pro - because its got the knobs on it! (which I'm grateful for - I like a volume knob!) With car play (or Android auto) you lose functionality on the instrument panel in front of the driver. It only works on the centre screen.