Hotspot app for Android?

[clockworks]

My car's satnav can use the mobile phone in hotspot/tethering mode to get speed camera and traffic info. The car manufacturer (Kia) has an app that detects the phone establishing a bluetooth connection to the car when the ignition is switched on, and puts the phone into hotspot mode.
Data is downloaded to the satnav, cameras and traffic jams are displayed on the car satnav, along with audible warnings.

This works perfectly, but unfortunately it isn't clever enough to switch the phone back into normal wifi mode when I get out of the car, so I have to enable wifi manually. Not a major issue, but it would be nice if it was completely automatic.

Any recommendations for a hotspot app that'll do what I want?
Phone is a Samsung S9.

[randlemarcus]

That sounds like a perfect use case for an If This Then That type app.

[davek_964]

randlemarcus said:

That sounds like a perfect use case for an If This Then That type app.

Or Tasker

[Gman20]

There is an option to turn of hotspot automatically when no devices are connected, think it came in on android 9.

[dave_s13]

Does it have android auto?

Google maps is all you need for navigation really.

[deebow]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.c...

this has been recommend on the forums for those that use the android head units and have the same dilemma

[Dave.]

davek_964 said:

randlemarcus said:

That sounds like a perfect use case for an If This Then That type app.

Or Tasker

Or an nfc tag?

[clockworks]

Thanks for the links to some apps, I'll give them a try.

It looks like the wifi not switching back on may be a problem with Android though, rather than a limitation of the app I'm currently using. Using a different app might not actually help.

I've not tried using Android Auto yet, not sure if my car actually has it. I know it was implemented around the time my car was built.

I've used Google Maps abroad, found it to be a bit fiddly to use. The car's satnav works fine for me, and traffic/cameras seem to work OK using the hotspot, it's just a minor irritation that wifi doesn't reconnect automatically.

[davek_964]

I'd be surprised if a bug that's stopping it automatically switching WiFi on again would prevent another app from switching it on.

The apps suggested will probably work although obviously there is a learning curve. But they have the advantage of allowing you to automatically control other features on the phone if you want to (for example, since I use my phone to stream music in the cars, it automatically sets media volume to max whenever it connects to my cars Bluetooth)

[clockworks]

Looking at the reviews/comments for Tasker, not switching WiFi back on is mentioned as being a problem with Android.