Checks GitHub's latest release once a day when the app opens and after a
drive. A new version shows as a card on Home, a notification after the
drive, and a card on the car screen at plug-in while parked. Downloads are
checked against GitHub's SHA-256 and never install while the car is
connected. Update notifications can be turned off in Settings.
A box on the phone types into the car's text field. Media apps with library search show a list of results to pick from, searching a second after you stop typing.
Cars like the 2022 Dacia Jogger list a compressed audio channel before the raw one, and Gearslip was sending raw audio to it. The Exit tile no longer shows as running, and the log leaves out the weather town and the car's GPS.
One look for every section, What's new and the setup guide at the top, and the setup guide's buttons stay on screen. Recommended apps is hidden for now.
Release builds ask in setup and Settings whether to send a short note when the app is opened and after each drive: the version, plus the Android version, phone model and cars people tick. Nothing runs in the background. Dev builds always send. The Cloudflare Worker in stats-worker/ stores the notes and serves a private dashboard with GitHub downloads alongside.
Every screen reached from Home has a themed back button in its header. A new Exit tile
asks the car to show its own interface, as Android Auto's does. All writes to the car
now go through one thread, so reading never waits on a write; LIVI no longer stalls
for two seconds at a time. Touches go to the front of the main thread's queue.
With one frame allowed in flight (LIVI), dropped frames forced keyframe repairs, which
caused more drops. LIVI went from 345 forced keyframes a minute to none.
LIVI lists an empty input for its cluster display before the real touchscreen, so every
tap was ignored. Pick the video and input that belong to the main screen.
The head unit speaks first and gave up while the phone spent a second unlocking its
certificate before reading. Read straight away and unlock the certificate alongside it,
and keep it unlocked between connections.
The card now closes after no, cancel or no answer instead of popping back up. The
setup guide asks for the microphone even with car audio off, and its adb commands use
the installed package name. Sensor events are logged once per type plus a count.
Any control with a press-and-hold action now shows it: a corner peel on Tactile and
Keycap that opens while held, a dot on Flat. Working/partial/broken badges moved onto
the app icon. Spotify and Deezer are marked partial since they need opening on the phone.
Sensors live in service field 2, not 5 (that's the mic), so the channel never opened.
Message ids were also one off and the start request was missing min_update_period.
Gearslip now reads messages aloud and takes replies by voice. It asks
whether to reply, reads the reply back and sends it after a countdown.
Say "cancel" or "change it" to stop or redo it, or tap a quick reply.
Speech-to-text runs on the phone with whisper.cpp and a small Whisper
model, so voice works without Google services. The model ships in the
repo, so a fresh clone builds with nothing to download.
New messages show as one card at the top right, with a bar counting
down to when it closes or sends.
Other changes:
- Steering wheel buttons, knobs and D-pads drive the car screen.
- Smoother car audio: chunks wait for the car instead of dropping.
- Sharper, more responsive video.
- The Gearslip switch in Settings now stops it taking the USB
connection.
- Apps that refuse Gearslip say so instead of loading forever.
- The phone asks for notification permission.
- The home screen stays upright.
- The car screen shows what's new after an update.
Leaving Home used to tear down the map's surface, so coming back showed black for a second or two while the nav app redrew. Home now stays composed under every other screen.
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