No, hence the name Carplay.
This is correct.
Yeah I have seen that thread and my thoughts / comments are towards the end of it
I’ve since updated to iOS 14.4 and done that short YouTube video to answer questions from on here and it’s still working exactly as per that video - which for me is greatI don’t think there are different versions, I think it’s one of two things :
Either the early adopters were used as guinea pigs whilst development was still taking place.
Or a conflict of phone / sync / CarPlay2Air software versions.
Whichever it was, I guess the problems are either ironed out and they are still living with the early views, or I got lucky.
The units can be updated once they are connected to your phone (easy to do) and mine said it needed a update, but it won’t automatically tell you - you need to check it yourself (I can only guess some users forget to do this or don’t even know about it ?)
I read that some issues were caused by your phone already being connected to a WiFi network when the dongle powers up. My phone is still on a weak hone WiFi signal when I start the car but that doesn’t seem to have bothered it.
The only issue I have found (which is now fixed) is that I couldn’t delete wenklaw’s phone from it’s memory following the instructions I found on the net. What the instructions didn’t tell you is that the second phone (i.e. mine) just needed to be out of range otherwise it would auto connect to my phone before making the delete option active for wenklaw’s.
I bought the unit second hand off wenklaw - when I picked up that he had swapped to android, I shot him a pm asking if he was interested in selling the dongle.
I don’t think wenklaw will mind me quoting him when I asked about it :
“It works pretty well to be fair to it although be aware sometimes you do have to disconnect from the USB and reconnect but 9 times out of 10 it's fine and remember it takes 30 - 60 seconds to connect so not for the impatient”
It’s looking like my experience is a little better. It hasn’t glitched once (it’s probably done about 30 connections) and although I haven’t timed it I would guess it connects quicker than quoted - I wonder if the last software update improved both issues ?
If it helps I am on sync 3.4 build 20282 / iPhone X / iOS 14.3
I’m not linked with this company in anyway, but if I filmed mine working it would make the perfect YouTube advert for them - let’s hope that continues... lol
Hope that helps ?
WD
