Hello RealDash community!!
I was messing around the other day with the Media Player options on RealDash in order to make the “Currently playing” inputs (Artist, Title, Album, etc) pull data from a Radio app. I’m currently using VRadio and had some previous experience with other dash apps that would pull data from it so I started with this.
So, first thing I tried was go to Settings → Users → 3rd page and use the “Other” option. The dash prompted me to allow reading notifications (or something like that) which I did and, lo and behold, when I returned to the dash I got all the info I needed. All three default inputs (title, artist and album) showed info, where “Album” was the name of the station.
I was ecstatic that it was so easy to make it work and spent the next hour or so setting up the dash to show bigger texts and fix the placement and the like. Then went on my day.
Here comes my issue (sorry for the long intro, tried to give as much context as possible). Next time I got in the car, I started up the radio, then opened the dash but didn’t got any info on the “Currently Playing” fields I had set up earlier. The only way I could get them to show information was to go back to Settings → Users → 3rd page and select any other option available (apparently, any option works. So far I tried the “Spotify” and “RealDash” options and they both work) for the info to come back.
So, my question is this. Am I doing something wrong? Should I use a different Radio app? Or is there a way to make the field update automatically instead of doing this reset every time??
Thanks in advance.