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CarPlay solution for Tesla by Michal Gapinski using Raspberry Pi with Android
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I'm not sure you can, yet, the latest update (2023.6.1) requires a fresh install. I believe OTA updates are coming, at which point you will be able to update and keep your settings.
It might be a bit of a PITA initially but I'd recommend the update, it's been very solid for me so far.
It might be a bit of a PITA initially but I'd recommend the update, it's been very solid for me so far.
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Yea I Blocked Robert Rosenfeld from appearing In my YouTube long time ago.
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Yea 2023.6.1 is a pre release “alpha”. I’m using the third build of it, I think it is the latest. It is stable. CarPlay interface is even more responsive because hardware gpu based decoding of the H264 video stream from carlinkit to pie is happening..moving the view in Apple Maps reveals the performance gain. Feels like 10 frames per second faster than before.
Playing Apple Lossless codec via android OS Apple Music is nice
. I downloaded the music to microSD when pi was plugged in to home internet. I also playback uncompressed flac audio Via VLC. I messed around with experimental settings which should allow CarPlay‘s Apple Music to playback lossless codec when using wired CarPlay (Apple set thus limitation, they document it). Audio is sent to tesla web browser at 48khz sample rate from pi via wifi, no more bluetooth compression in the pipeline.occasionally audio skipped or froze until you hit play/pause but Mike mentioned one more planned tweak which hopefully will fix that.
Anyhow, if you are not in to beta testing, hold off and wait for official release.
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So in layman’s terms you get better sound quality? How much better is it, objectively, if possible? Do a blind test on your wife and see if she can tell which is which. 
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In laymen’s terms, yup. If you have ever noticed that some songs played over Bluetooth seem dulled a bit when compared to CD or good quality MP3 or flac audio payed back via usb, then you’d like the better audio abilities. Many people won’t care though. Audiophiles will care. If You scan the threads about Tesla’s native Apple Music app, you will see that people were disappointed that there was no ability to stream apple’s lossless codec.So in layman’s terms you get better sound quality? How much better is it, objectively, if possible? Do a blind test on your wife and see if she can tell which is which.
My youngest daughter loves the westworld season 1 soundtrack. I’ll ask her what she thinks & use her favorite song. I have it as flac uncompressed audio on usb drive & on my iPhone as high quality lossless Apple codec but it will be compressed by Bluetooth transmission.
For me and my pal, Toto’s song Africa is one where we can tell the difference between Bluetooth & not.
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If you test on Mac first, remember to erase hotspot from Mac before trying in car or iCloud will put hotspot info in your iPhone & iPhone will auto connect to tesla android when you are in car & cause issues.
Lol yep
In other news I think I've landed on the right combination of power supply and macrodroid scripts to have the pi behave exactly how I want it to wrt hotspot, tethering etc. Going to play with it a bit more to confirm, and then share.
In other news I think I've landed on the right combination of power supply and macrodroid scripts to have the pi behave exactly how I want it to wrt hotspot, tethering etc. Going to play with it a bit more to confirm, and then share.
Yep, works well. I also have it configured so that the Pi hotspot is only active when the Pi is tethered to the iPhone, which is helpful for maintaining connectivity to the car via it's LTE modem when parked.
For power supply I'm using an OBD II to USB C thingy from Amazon, which seems to give the Pi enough juice to fully boot with both iPhone and CarPlay dongle connected. Plus it's always-on, if I want it to be (although I'll also be using a switched cable once that arrives).
For power supply I'm using an OBD II to USB C thingy from Amazon, which seems to give the Pi enough juice to fully boot with both iPhone and CarPlay dongle connected. Plus it's always-on, if I want it to be (although I'll also be using a switched cable once that arrives).
The audio with 2023.7.1 is a huge improvement. It sounds fantastic. However, now that audio is routed via the browser its shares audio with the radio. If I start with the radio and traverse to the browser to CarPlay, Apple Music and the radio play at the same time. I have to pause the radio.
The Tesla-Android version was moved to the upper right and some times gets in the way while using Waze. If I select the mic icon via Waze I sometimes click the Tesla-Android version and it takes me to the version page.
I will do some additional testing tomorrow.
The Tesla-Android version was moved to the upper right and some times gets in the way while using Waze. If I select the mic icon via Waze I sometimes click the Tesla-Android version and it takes me to the version page.
I will do some additional testing tomorrow.
You can still route CarPlay audio through bluetooth, just change the setting in the AutoKit app (in the advanced settings menu)The audio with 2023.7.1 is a huge improvement. It sounds fantastic. However, now that audio is routed via the browser its shares audio with the radio. If I start with the radio and traverse to the browser to CarPlay, Apple Music and the radio play at the same time. I have to pause the radio.
The Tesla-Android version was moved to the upper right and some times gets in the way while using Waze. If I select the mic icon via Waze I sometimes click the Tesla-Android version and it takes me to the version page.
I will do some additional testing tomorrow.
Not sure I did anything different to previous builds. Fired up the Pi on my desk, plugged in the iPhone, agreed to the 'Trust' popup and the Pi was connected.
Ya true
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