openauto VS CarPiHat

Options are limited. Look here: https://github.com/f1xpl/openauto

Other than a DIY solution then possibly Open Auto (free and paid) could help?

It would take a lot of time don't get me wrong & it can replace your infotainment center with a touchscreen & a rPi3B running OpenAutoPro but if you look at that feature set in the repo you'll see why it's wayyy better & integrates your android on multiple abstraction layers instead of just bluetooth. Plus the user interface is fully customizable with Qt (all open source)

Actually, maybe it's possible? This project seems like it could run on the Car Thing. https://github.com/f1xpl/openauto

openauto, crankshaft

I dunno if this is the proper place to ask about this, but; we already know Android Auto is pretty locked down to Googly's services, and requires their apps for the extra functionality. I'm aware of some progress being made to work around it; someone did get Android Auto Running in MicroG as well as AACS and the wonderful reverse engineered OpenAuto

I also tried sudo apt install https://github.com/f1xpl/openauto

f1xpl/openauto: AndroidAuto headunit emulator (github.com)

yo I love this! & to help you with getting more real time data from your car you can try the CarPiHat if you have a raspberry pi so you can directly interface with your CAN bus / ECU / IDrive controller / etc. & if you look at the documentation in the Github Repo you'll see some examples of what has been done with it already.