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by sokoloff 873 days ago
There's a complex intersection near my house where my aftermarket Atoto CarPlay head unit will also reliably disconnect. Fortunately, after a firmware update to the head unit, it will now at least reconnect automatically; previously, I'd have to disconnect and reconnect the phone.

(Without any data to support,) I believe it to be a complexity of map issue (maybe causing a buffer overflow) rather than an RF/WiFi interference issue. It seems far too repeatable for it to be an RF issue.

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I would be curious if that intersection ever stop causing disconnects. There was an intersection that would cause disconnects only from one area of the intersection (the east side of the intersection) and one day the disconnects stopped. There was another area near a water tower that would also disconnect the CarPlay and that no longer causes an issue. There was a water pump station near the first intersection so I was thinking it could somehow be related to the operations of the equipment. I am betting that once the construction is done in the area I’m having issues currently the issues will go away.
Could it simply be that you have auto-join enabled and that you're connecting to another network in that area?