So the device is paired and docked, using the IPod interface- no issue there. The car sees my IPhone 8, even displays the song's name but can not get to play. It stays paused. Pushing play from the iphone, it streams for 1-2 seconds before pausing. I'm trying to stream from Spotify app which I use in my other vehicles.
What am I doing wrong?

 

You need to have at least one mp3 on the phone, if it's empty then you can't stream.

 

So, I installed a free mp3 app (EDownloader) and downloaded one mp3 song. I can stream the mp3 song, but still nothing else like spotify.

 

You need to load one song in the Apple Music app. The Bovee will probably play that first when you connect your phone but you can then switch to Spotify.

 

Good ol' **** Apple.

 

Yup, downloaded a song from ITune ($1.29) , now it works.
Since I'm a long time owner of Apple stock, I do appreciate and benefit from their business tactics.

 

I couldn't get the Bovee to recognize in my Aston. Ended up returning it. I believe the issue is my car, not the device.

 

Thanks for all the responses it helped