To my knowledge, it’s not technically possible for a device’s Wi-Fi to connect to two Wi-Fi networks simultaneously. It has to be one or the other. Wi-Fi just doesn’t work that way. You would need two Wi-Fi chips in your phone. Your workaround is the best you’ll be able to do. Sorry.

 

To my knowledge, it’s not technically possible for a devices’s Wi-Fi to connect to two Wi-Fi networks simultaneously. It has to be one or the other. Wi-Fi just doesn’t work that way. You would need two Wi-Fi chips in your phone. Your workaround is the best you’ll be able to do. Sorry.

Thanks… yeah, that’s what I thought, but was hoping there was some alternative approach I hadn’t considered, like somehow hardwiring something, using Bluetooth only, or something like that.

After posting my question I did find an alternative approach that works - though still not the ideal solution: I have an old iPhone 6s that I don’t use anymore. So I connected it to the dash cam wifi instead of my new iPhone and downloaded the app, etc., and use it as my “dash cam viewer”. I have it plugged in to one of the USB ports so it maintains battery.

Its probably more trouble than it’s worth since I don’t really need to view the dash cam video often. But at least I found a couple of work-arounds.

Ideally the BlackVue should be programmed to connect to the car’s wifi network instead of creating its own wifi network. That would solve the conflict and is perfectly normal for wifi networks which often have multiple devices connected to them.

 

I have the BlackVue DR750-2CH LTE 4G Full HD Cloud Dashcam and also noticed that the ID4 wifi is dominant and it was not possible to connect in car wifi to blackvue no matter what i tried.
The only thing that is possible in the settings of the ID4 is to turn off the WiFi and then the Blackvue will be able to connect WiFi.
I must say that this is only necessary for updating new software of the BlackVue.
Live stream and view recordings of the BlackVue via WiFi is not necessary with me because it is the LTE version with built-in SIM card.

 

Thanks. What does the LTE version do differently? Maybe i should swap mine.

Mine does have a microSD card so I don't necessarily need the wifi either. But after spending so much time and money I just wanted that feature to work better than it does.

 

To clarify, the network does not "Connect to" a phone. The phone is choosing which network to talk to.

You're probably using Apple Carplay on your iPhone, which uses both Bluetooth and then the WiFi network to communicate between the phone and car. If you were to instead use a wired connection, or simply use BT for your phone to car audio (without maps or other apps visible on the infotainment console) then the phone should be able to connect WiFi to your dashcam network. Now, there may be aspects of CarPlay that want to override that, but that is the basics.

 

You’re right that the phone could join the cam’s Wi-Fi network if it wasn’t connected to any other Wi-Fi network, like the one that wireless CarPlay requires (wireless Android Auto, too, I think). So if you could live with wired CarPlay/AA only, that could be another workaround.