The player's buttons are sized from the column's width instead of fixed, its close button
is round and tucked into the corner, and the trip's figures shrink to stay whole when the
player narrows the column.
Maps lists itself only as a messenger, and messengers never got the X, so it had none
anywhere. Patched copies, like Waze through Morphe, still get none.
A car that connected by itself with the phone locked left navigation apps without a fix
until Gearslip was opened (#99). Home now asks for Allow all the time while a car is
connected, and the location service starts as soon as it's granted. The weather no
longer reads the location when Gearslip is opened with no car connected.
A .p12, with or without a password, or a certificate and key as PEM or DER, in one file or two.
Gearslip ships no address of its own; the driver pastes one, and it's kept for Download again.
The 2019 Fiat 500's Uconnect drops the link within a second of the request with icons that 0.3.39
started sending, while a 2017 Hyundai needs them. Each car is remembered by its head unit's certificate.
An app adds one meta-data line to its manifest and Gearslip marks it Works with Gearslip in the
Recommended apps list. Tapping an app opens its page, with an Open or Get button. A README badge
for app developers is in docs/badge, documented in BUILDING_APPS.md.
RF Sentinel and other point-of-interest apps leave this map to the host. It uses MapLibre with
OpenFreeMap's tiles, which need no key or account, with a numbered pin for each place.
Music plays through Gearslip's player from the app's playback session, pressing its Play key when
it isn't running; messages show from its notifications. Added apps can be removed from the Apps card.
Bookmarks are added from the star in the car, from the phone's settings, or by sharing a page to
Gearslip from any browser. Ads and trackers are blocked with EasyList and EasyPrivacy, or any list
added by its address, refreshed weekly on Wi-Fi, and YouTube's video ads are skipped.
A wireless reconnect takes longer than 3 seconds, which had the driver asked to share the screen
again mid-drive. Cars that wait for a tap on their icon no longer get the address card every drive.
Nothing stopped the audio capture once the drive was over: CarAudio.release() only ran when
the activity went away, and through a wireless dongle it stays open, so the phone kept sharing
its screen and stayed muted (issue #43). A wireless session that drops also never closed the
music channel, since nothing calls stop() until the next session. run() now closes it, and
when the music channel closes the capture stops unless a car comes back within 3 seconds.
The 2020 Civic (issue #43) acks one audio chunk every 45 to 85 ms whatever it holds, so the
21 ms chunks Gearslip sends reached it at a quarter to half of real time: a second of music,
then silence. While the window is full, AudioLink now measures the car's gap between acks, and
when it's well over what a chunk holds, gathers the capture into chunks that last the gap,
rounded up to a power of two in frames. The Civic gets 4096 frames. A car that keeps up never
fills the window and gets the capture as it comes.
The 2020 Civic (issue #43) answers every request for its screen with its own, and waits to
hear which phone is connected over the car's Bluetooth channel. Gearslip never told it:
CarBluetooth was only set up once the car screen drew, so on a car that never shows it the
typed address never left the phone. It's now set up when Gearslip starts.
Once the car hears the address it sends Play while still on its own screen, and reaching for
the media app before the car UI exists ended the session; such keys are now logged and ignored.
The second request for the screen now runs whether or not the media channel is open, and a car
that keeps its screen gets the Bluetooth channel opened, and pairing started, as a real phone
does. When the car answers there, it is asked for its screen again.
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