Bluetooth Audio on Volvo Tutorial
We’re revisiting Bluetooth speaker audio sharing of an iPhone (with Spotify) on, this time, a Volvo, further to the Volkswagen approach described at Bluetooth Audio on Volkswagen Golf Primer Tutorial.
We find getting to the Bluetooth menu on these cars a major challenge, and today, we take it up from that point, presumably so different for each car, that you’ll need the car manual, or stumble upon it!
We stumbled upon it, and now we’re here!
Making this presentation we ended up with a PDF presentation (though if it wasn’t for the cut off of photos in the Gmail screen, that would have been the best of all, including our animated GIF via inhouse or convert ImageMagick or ffmpeg attempts, as well as inhouse video), because we needed, on macOS Preview desktop application, it’s talents to rotate some of the images (related to whether they were captured with a Portrait camera or Landscape camera (and to standardize throughout may avoid some of these issues)), selected as a group in the Finder desktop app, ahead of Print/Save as PDF AutoRotation off. This was all a bit tricky because, although the photos were all taken with the iPhone they consisted of a to and fro mix of …
- Camera app photos …
- screenshots
… saved to the iPhone Photos app and from there shared by Mail to the macOS MacBook Air we’re piecing the presentation together on for you today.
As far as the Bluetooth Pairing procedure went, the most confusing bit was the way we seemed to need to turn the iPhone’s Bluetooth setting off and then on to allow for iPhone discoverability. Photo order, of course, with such a procedure, is important. We were really lucky the file names could indicate consecutivity. If from two different sources you won’t have that luxury and may need to rely on Exif, if that is possible. We don’t like to contemplate this, here, today.
Different to the Volkswagen was the pairing code, in the Volvo dynamically generated and asking the user to parrot it back, rather than the set pairing value on the Volkswagen, all small bikkies, really. I’m just relieved to find the Bluetooth (Audio Speaker) related menu in the first place, and so, enjoy!
Previous relevant Bluetooth Audio on Volkswagen Golf Primer Tutorial is shown below.
Bluetooth Audio on Volkswagen Golf Primer Tutorial
As many Australians head back from summer holidays, perhaps attention turns to entertainment on the trip back. It is there, that a lot of modern cars include a Bluetooth capability, allowing the speakers of an iPhone or Android mobile phone, designed for personal use, be superceeded by the more powerful car Bluetooth speaker system, loud enough to be heard by everyone in the car.
We have a Volkswagen Golf with an RCD310 radio, and setting up this Bluetooth connection to an iPhone 6 was not difficult, the only advice my daughter needing to give me involving a “0000” PIN being a default number to use should you come across this question during the setup. Sorry, but we couldn’t capture this gem of a moment (good times) with our “stream of consciousness” PDF slideshow, but perhaps this is mentioned in the manual you may have been provided with your car regarding its Bluetooth arrangements, but we did find a good YouTube video on this subject below …
If this strikes a chord with you and your family, we hope you have a safe trip back.
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