By coincidence. I went through these steps this morning. Here was the order I did.
Check to see what local IP addresses your home router uses for the LAN (Local Area Network). Mine is in the 192.168.0.x & the below steps work. I suspect all 192.168.x.x IP ranges will work.
1) Pi is turned off, ethernet not plugged in, carlinkit is not plugged in.
2) plug in ethernet in to pi
3) turn on pi and wait about 120 - 130 seconds for Tesla-Anderoid_xxxx wifi network to appear.
4) view the Pi screen by using a computer web browser by connecting to web address 9.9.0.1 . You can use iPad but sometimes the touch events are not translated properly to Pi. I also tend to use a browser's "private mode" to avoid an occasional web caching glitch which just shows the Tesla-android screen as being white.
5) When you can see the Tesla-android screen, plug in carlinkit dongle....and wait....after about 30 seconds you will see a menu appear asking which app you want to use when this device is detected. The menu will show autokit. Select autokit. another prompt will ask if you always want to use autokit for this device (carlinkit), say yes. You might get other questions asking if you want the device to be able to access certain parts of the OS. I said yes.
6) load autokit. It should pretty quickly tell you an autokit software update is available. You will for sure have one update available for autokit if you are using tesla-android 2022.45.1 . If you do not get a notification about available update, try to use the button for manually detecting available updates. If you do not get notification of available update, your PI might not be able to recognize your LAN ip address or there is issue with the ethernet cable, verify it can provide internet access to another device.
7) install update, again android os will ask you to grant permission for autokit to install updates. Say yes.
8) after you are running the new autokit, go to the autokit settings menu (a gear icon in autokit main screen) and click on the button for detecting updates (near bottom of settings page or might be in advanced settings)....the next update it might find is a firmware update for the carlinkit dongle. You might not have any updates.
Sorry if this is rushed, I'm on the way out for the afternoon. But this will probably lead me to make a blog post in the future
. Good topic.