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CarPlay CarPlay adapter to convert to wireless CarPlay?
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I tried changing frame rate. It is what it seems. It changes the screen update speed.
28.01.2021 Works on Mazda 3 2014. No restarts. They said to write in the log if it works so please do it so they will know.
That’s a great news!! I don’t see that update vi OTA but i will wait patiently hahaha. Thanks for share!
Thank you. I'll give it a go this afternoon. Fingers crossed 🤞
Carlinkit 2.0 updated. You are my hero hahah. I’m going to test immediately!
Made the custom firmware as well, still working fine on PSA Cars.
Got "Hardware error: Wi-Fi" after updating my old Carplay2air, just reflashing the update a second time worked, all worked directly on Carlinkit 2.0
Based on the content of the update they are planning to use another Wifi chip (Broadcom BCM4354 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO Bluetooth 4.1) instead of the Realtek 8822 (802.11ac 2x2 MIMO as well but Bluetooth 4.2), which is quite strange because BCM4354 is already quite old (2014)
Got "Hardware error: Wi-Fi" after updating my old Carplay2air, just reflashing the update a second time worked, all worked directly on Carlinkit 2.0
Based on the content of the update they are planning to use another Wifi chip (Broadcom BCM4354 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO Bluetooth 4.1) instead of the Realtek 8822 (802.11ac 2x2 MIMO as well but Bluetooth 4.2), which is quite strange because BCM4354 is already quite old (2014)
Great work again. Think soon as you mention because of space think I’ll have to go custom soon on my original CarLinkIt.
Do you know what the new settings do by any chance? Anything in the FW? I posted the screenshots above.
Thanks
Most settings are easy to understand
- GPS : Switch between GPS signal from the car / from the phone
- Frame Rate : Limit the frame rate of the Carplay encoded video (it is a MP4 played by your head unit)
- Media Delay : Delay to sync audio with video ( I usually set 700ms, under 500ms the sound will be hatched )
- Sound Quality : Probably 128Kbits (CD) or 192 Kbits (DVD) encoded audio
- Sync mode : Probably the way how touch is transmitted
- Automatic : I would guess it is about auto connecting your phone at startup
- Startup Delay : Easy to understand, I use 5s
- Background mode : I don't know
- GPS : Switch between GPS signal from the car / from the phone
- Frame Rate : Limit the frame rate of the Carplay encoded video (it is a MP4 played by your head unit)
- Media Delay : Delay to sync audio with video ( I usually set 700ms, under 500ms the sound will be hatched )
- Sound Quality : Probably 128Kbits (CD) or 192 Kbits (DVD) encoded audio
- Sync mode : Probably the way how touch is transmitted
- Automatic : I would guess it is about auto connecting your phone at startup
- Startup Delay : Easy to understand, I use 5s
- Background mode : I don't know
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Background mode is to run it in startup without any notification screen of CPLAY2Air until CarPlay is starting .
I saw this version in OTA so thank you for posting because some guys did not see an OTA.
Just updated my dongles to 28.01.2021 on my Focus ST (Ford Sync 3.4) and it works great. Siri does NOT crash for me.
Thanks, some odd choices of words to what is actually.
When you say frame rate, what video is playing? The actual sending of CarPlay to head unit mean?
Sync mode - “tactile is transmitted” sorry don’t understand.
When you say media delay, what video is played? Music playing via CarPlay?
The background maybe good idea so we don’t see startup of the dongle screen and just goes straight to CarPlay instead.
Thanks makes a bit more sense!
On the startup delay, mine connects ok now, is a delay I don’t have to unplug/plug to get it working like some, so do I need this? Or is it for specific vehicles that the dongle starts too quick for the touchscreen?
Thanks
incredible, it finally works perfectly on my mazda cx 5 2019, with the update 28.01.2021. I have tried it for 1 hour.
If with previous firmware all worked perfectly you can rollback. Usually it is not recommended to update unless you have issues
Yeah, I know. Probably will, just wanted to point out an issue with it to the group.
I had no clue!
Is that why some of the UI colors are different when using the adapter vs just straight wired CarPlay?
The adapter is transcoding something wrong?
Like others, I don't see 2021.01.28 available OTA or in the link I usually check: http://www.paplink.cn/server.php?action=checkBoxUpdateByCustomerBoxType&&lang=2&&CustomerType=P&&BoxType=U
How was that firmware released? Directly to a customer? I think I am going to wait until the firmware is officially available OTA... although if it does fix the Mazda issues, it will be great news! I am not optimistic, however - even before the 30 second reboots of the latests firmwares, the older firmwares would appear to work fine in the beginning but then the Mazda system itself would crash sporadically (especially if running certain apps, like Waze and streaming audio at the same time). I would run the adapter for a couple of days (at least) without issues before calling it a success.
How was that firmware released? Directly to a customer? I think I am going to wait until the firmware is officially available OTA... although if it does fix the Mazda issues, it will be great news! I am not optimistic, however - even before the 30 second reboots of the latests firmwares, the older firmwares would appear to work fine in the beginning but then the Mazda system itself would crash sporadically (especially if running certain apps, like Waze and streaming audio at the same time). I would run the adapter for a couple of days (at least) without issues before calling it a success.