Using an Android Auto Wireless Adapter USB Dongle Works

[SV-Engineer]

On a whim I tried this AA Wireless USB Adapter with crankshaft on a Raspberry PI3. It worked flawlessly.

The short version is that said dongle works by using the paired bluetooth to get the device MAC address and then creates a WiFi direct connection (no need for a publicly broadcasted hotspot connection). I have confirmed the tool for creating a WiFi Direct Connection works on a Pi 5 but not the 3. IIRC, the Pi 3 does have a bluetooth radio in-built.

Is anyone already working on developing this? The current wireless implementation is a bit round-about. Not hating on something that does technically work, as it is certainly impressive.