I’m not sure which Mazda Connect I am on. It’s not the newest version that comes on the Mazda 3 or CX-30 but I believe it’s the last version since it’s a 2019.
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CarPlay CarPlay adapter to convert to wireless CarPlay?
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I have a the new Mazda CX30 with Mazda Connect II too and like ”Garkan” it’s worked pretty fine for me.
Just some little lag but very minus.
Just some little lag but very minus.
That's good to hear. Here's how my Mazda Connect looks:
And here's the newest Mazda Connect system:
It's been almost a month since the last firmware update, perhaps they stopped putting them on the http://112.74.112.110/mnt/downloads/yyyy-mm-dd/U2W_Update.img
Anyone knows of another location?
Anyone knows of another location?
Any chance this is a software upgrade? (I assume not - that it requires newer hardware.)
it is completely a new system, impossible via a simple update unfortunately.
I had before a Mazda 6 with the old Mazda Connect and I must say that the new system works a lot better with the carplay2air.
on the First Page of this thread, First posting.tyunfortunately i cant find any links. can u help me?
Hi, i’m running currently ver 2020.08.04 1602 on my cplay2air (USB-A) and it says that’s the last update. I updated the dongle only via the built OTA (no usb flash etc.) Any ideas what to do? It seems not the last version available to me.
It is currently the latest OTA version. While there were other versions available for USB updating, (and shorty newer versions via OTA), the latest OTA version rolled back to 08-04. Carlinkit probably figures that's currently the version with the least issues for most people.
Thanks for your reply. If I manually update the Cplay2air (some later version worked better for me) will it get the updates via OTA after that?
You should
It has worked fine for me so far, but some people ran into issues with specific versions. There's always a certain risk involved as these are not really officially released updates.
Never say never about anything but the Dongle itself does not have the ability to communicate with the internet that I am aware of. You can manually send your logs to them if you have problems. I almost wish it could automatically send logs when it ran into errors if we authorized it prior.
can't it use the LTE connection of the car or the iphone to spy & send the data which traverses it? i think carplay protocol allows using the internet of the connected devices or the car's internet
No.
Plus, the only data the phone is providing to your car (either directly connected via USB or via WiFi to the Carlinkit dongle) is streaming audio and video of the CarPlay screen interface the phone is rendering. No actual "data" is available to the car or the Carlinkit, just images and sound.
You can think of CarPlay as akin to adding a second monitor to your computer. The car/Carlinkit dongle in this case is just the dumb "monitor"--it just shows images that are sent to it. All of the data stays on your phone.
And if you're worried that the dongle could be leaking screenshots of your CarPlay interface, that's also damn near impossible. The only way the dongle can "talk" to the internet is if you browse to its internal web page (192.168.50.2) from your phone. If you don't initiate it there's no way for it do use your phone to do anything. And screenshots and audio would take up a tremendous amount of storage space, which the Carlinkit lacks (several people in this thread have already opened them up and identified all the components).
Long story short, don't worry about it.
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It can only find updates if you pull out your phone and submit a request via its built-in web server--and that connection is only momentary. Without you initiating the process via your iPhone, the dongle has no way to access the internet. Also, as I stated earlier, the design of CarPlay means that your phone's data never leaves your phone in any kind of usable way.
But I mean everyone has their own level of risk tolerance. May be better to just plug in (or replace the car's head unit with a unit that is certified for Wireless CarPlay) if you're paranoid about it.
Hey all for those that use Waze with Apple Music or Amazon music simultaneously I have found a work around for the spontaneous reboots Waze triggers.
It appears that if you leave Apple or Amazon music as the foreground application it does not spontaneously reboot (or at least so infrequently I have not seen it so far).
You still will get Waze turn by turn alerts, police and red light camera alerts which will come up as pop ups within Apple music and I believe Amazon music. You can briefly return to Waze to get a better idea/map view more timely information, but don't stay with waze in the foreground too long or you will be back to spontaneous reboots.
It is not my preference to run this way but
It appears that if you leave Apple or Amazon music as the foreground application it does not spontaneously reboot (or at least so infrequently I have not seen it so far).
You still will get Waze turn by turn alerts, police and red light camera alerts which will come up as pop ups within Apple music and I believe Amazon music. You can briefly return to Waze to get a better idea/map view more timely information, but don't stay with waze in the foreground too long or you will be back to spontaneous reboots.
It is not my preference to run this way but
I uploaded the full rootFS to the Github repo
I also released my first custom firmware
Changelog:
You can find it here:
github.com
It is not possible to do much since everything related to CarPlay is using binaries (source code missing) so don't ask me if I can fix notifications & so on
All September updates are not updating anything, that's why it is still displaying 08.04.2020.1602 and that's why I used this firmware as a base.
I also released my first custom firmware
Changelog:
You can find it here:
ludwig-v/wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-engineering
Carplay2Air / Carlinkit Wireless Carplay Dongle reverse engineering - ludwig-v/wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-engineering
github.com
It is not possible to do much since everything related to CarPlay is using binaries (source code missing) so don't ask me if I can fix notifications & so on
All September updates are not updating anything, that's why it is still displaying 08.04.2020.1602 and that's why I used this firmware as a base.
going to try your firmware..what I got to lose..my wife cla250 Benz just reboots itself after a Minuit ...what is cpu scaling for? thanks for your workI uploaded the full rootFS to the Github repo
I also released my first custom firmware
Changelog:
You can find it here:
ludwig-v/wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-engineering
Carplay2Air / Carlinkit Wireless Carplay Dongle reverse engineering - ludwig-v/wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-engineering
It is not possible to do much since everything related to CarPlay is using binaries (source code missing) so don't ask me if I can fix notifications & so on
All September updates are not updating anything, that's why it is still displaying 08.04.2020.1602 and that's why I used this firmware as a base.
@VLud I forgot to mention. I tried flashing my v2 with your 25L12835F dump and it bricks it. It makes the red/green lights flash. Flashing back with my own dump fixes it.
So exactly the same as you, It seems units cannot be fixed from another units flash
I have the same behavior, after some time LEDs stop flashing and a permanent blue light is ON (on V1), the unit must be doing something but I don't know what (UART is not displaying anything), we should not expect anything from the manufacturer anyway
Update using the image, then remove it (to avoid flashing the update each time you plug it) and use the USB key to export the logs from the unit (use CarPlay normally for some time then plug the USB key to copy logs - it is automatic -)
For CPU scaling: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CPU_frequency_scaling