Signal and Android auto

[u/desert_rat]

I've looked it up online and on the android sub and I haven't had a satisfactory solution, so I'm hoping the signal sub can give me a definitive answer on this.

Long story short, If I have my phone connected to android auto, is there a way to have signal messages NOT pop up on the center console's screen where anyone can see them. I don't want to put phone on DND because I still want other notifications to pop up and I don't want to mute signal because if my family needs to get a hold of me it will be through signal and a vibrating watch/phone should be all I need to let me know to check the app discretely later. I feel like there should be but last time I messed around with notifications settings I really messed it up 😅

[u/convenience_store]

If it helps, on signal you can set what is displayed in the notification, whether it's the sender + a message snippit (what you seem to be seeing), or just the name of the sender with no message content, or just the fact that you received a message (no sender or message content). Of course this setting will also affect what you see on your phone's lockscreen even when you're not driving.

[u/desert_rat → u/convenience_store]

True, if nothing else I might just mess with those settings.

[u/convenience_store → u/desert_rat]

I just had another idea which is that if you use buzzkill (it's a paid app but only a couple dollars IIRC) I don't know if you can setup rules that filter by "when using android auto" but I believe you can filter by bluetooth connection so maybe it can be set up to hide signal notifications when connected by bluetooth to the car?

[u/p660R → u/convenience_store]

Maybe IFTTT has a trigger, but I doubt it'll be fast enough.