I have a 2011 TSX sportwagon Tech. Love the hands free calling feature. This past month I got a new android phone. It works fine with the hands free calling feature using Bluetooth. The new phone has a neat feature called "Assist" that will, if it notices you are driving, speak text messages to you. But if you have Bluetooth turned on your phone (which I do for phone calls), it attempts to speak the text message thru Bluetooth audio in the car. So if you do not have the car audio system set to Bluetooth input (which I usually don't) you hear nothing (not from the phone or the car).

So what I've found is that I can either use the HF calling without the Assist (spoken text), or I can use Assist (through the phone) without HF calling. But I can't use both.

Seems like there should be a way to get both. If the audio can route calls thru Bluetooth to the car audio, why would it not do the same with this Assist feature without having to have the car audio set on Bluetooth input?

You might have figured out - I'm not real techy with all this stuff, so any ideas would be appreciated.

 

It's using two different protocols. The one for the call audio, and the AD2P for sending the phone's audio.

If you don't use the bluetooth input then disable it on your phone, and it will speak the texts from the phone's speaker instead.

There is also an app in the market which will attempt to route phone audio through the call audio's bluetooth protocol. (Meaning it will come through HFL) It dosen't always work correctly though so you need to try it.

Try both and see what works best for you. I have mine set to play notifications / texts out of my phone speaker.

 

Thanks, but if I disable bluetooth on the phone, then I won't receive calls thru the HFL either.

Any idea on a good app for the routing you're talking about? Sounds like that should do the trick.

 

No, on Android you can disable individual protocols. Go to your bluetooth, then click the car device...you see two options, call audio and media audio. disable the media audio one. HFL and car audio will work, but the MEDIA audio will be disabled.

As for the routing app, here are two to try..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...th.audiorouter
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...nobluetoothpro

 

Oh wow! Thanks, I had no idea that was there. That should do it!