ElectricAnt54
Active Member
Hi @DadRS99 , If I recall correctly, you seem to be an audiophile & you have upgraded your Tesla's stereo system a bit. If that is the case, you should be aware that T2C streams the audio to Tesla stereo via bluetooth. You are getting bluetooth compression added on to your music. Many people do not care but you might.Yes, which one to buy? There’s one that says iOS 16 pre-sale??
However, there is a way where you can actually listen to Apple Lossless codec media without any extra bluetooth compression. Even Tesla's Apple Music app can not playback lossless codec. If you use Tesla Android (www.teslaandroid.com) you have a few options.
1) Install Android OS Apple Music app on the Tesla android raspberry pi and you can stream lossless codec from Apple or download the media to the raspberry pi's local microSD card.
2) This methodology is a little uncertain since it uses wired CarPlay via carlinkit's CPC200-CCPA dongle that is plugged in to Tesla Android Raspberry Pi. Run wired CarPlay using Tesla Android. According to apple wired CarPlay is the only one which supports playing back Apple Lossless codec. In autokit's settings you'd set the audio channel to be "box". This setting transmits the raspberry pi audio (48Khz PCM) to the Tesla via WI-FI. The Tesla web browser is accepting the audio. No bluetooth degradation. So the audio pipeline is phone -->wired CarPlay to carlinkit dongle (not known what dongle does to audio stream. I'd assume 48Khz PCM uncompressed/lossless sampling)-->Raspberry Pi samples audio at 48Khz PCM (uncompressed & lossless audio codec) and sends audio to Tesla browser/stereo via WI-FI connection.
3) Run CarPlay in wireless mode on Tesla Android. Since the autokit audio channel setting is box, audio will be sent to the Tesla stereo via WIFI and Tesla web browser is accepting the audio. No bluetooth degradation but music might be ACC format and not lossless.