Bluetooth

With Crankshaft Pre9, you can pair your phone to your Crankshaft head unit using Bluetooth via a simple button on the home screen.

1. Boot your Crankshaft head unit
2. Towards the top right of the home screen, tap the BT-Pairing button. A notification Bluetooth pairing has been enable for 120 seconds will appear
3. On your phone, access your Bluetooth pairing functionality, within Settings
4. Refresh the list of available devices until CRANKSHAFT-NG appears
5. Tap CRANKSHAFT-NG and when pairing is successful, your phone's Bluetooth identity will appear in blue text on the Crankshaft home screen to the left of the BT-Pairing button

Pairing your phone to your Crankshaft head unit allows you to use the Raspbery Pi as an audio gateway. This allows you to stream music from your phone through your Crankshaft head unit.

In future, pairing your phone to Crankshaft will also allow you to route calls, from your phone, through Crankshaft. However, support for this functionality is currently a work in progress.