Will Tesla finally adopt CarPlay? The new features of CarPlay may be what Tesla needed to finally adopt the popular service.
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With this in mind, I'm determined to get CarPlay into my M3.
I'd like to get something that is wide and could mount on or under the display.
The Tesla screen is apparently 13.812" wide which is 350.82mm
This screen on AliExpress is 350mm wide.
It's also sold without the case.
That would look pretty good mounted directly to the tesla display (top or bottom). However, I'm a bit shaky on what CarPlay requires but this seems to be only the display and driver board so I believe I'd need an android computer attached to it and then a CarPlay dongle wired or wireless attached to that.
This one, however, is lower res but does say that it comes with an "android driver board" but I suspect that may well be the same thing as the above; as in it's saying it's android compatible.
I could use a raspberry pi (but the last youtube video I watched said that they were still very slow) or I could see if I could find an Android dongle but I don't know whether they exist or how fast they are if they do.
Then there's this one which claims to do it all. Cheaper. Perhaps worth a punt.
A low res screen. I could live with that. But this whole advertising FM transmission of audio bothers me. It has bluetooth 5 so I would hope it would be able to connect that way. No mention of the processor.
I suppose what I'd like to do is to buy the guts of this one separate and use it to power one of the wider strips that I've bought. Perhaps lower res though because I'm not sure I need a 4k touch screen and it would be cheaper.
And THEN there's the dongle which I'd need.
Can anyone shed some light? 99% of the stuff about CarPlay displays is about making your regular head unit CarPlay compatible; not doing what I'm trying to do.