When I always call out Tesla owners bragging their car has all these features that are not for driving or getting from point a to point b, no one has ever listed that use case. that is a good one for sure.
I have the Carplay AI Box and it works great with my Mach-E and it's also able to communicate with the cars onboard GPS, so no need for any external dangles or antennas to use mapping apps.
But the app is available in the car so I assume they have plan for it. If now, why the app would show on our screen? I have Ford Play on my Mach-E screen, it just doesn't work yet and I wonder if somebody was aware of what's coming.
I have the carplay AI box but it sucks for me. It's wifi card or something sucks because you can only watch 240p and it takes forever to load.I have the Carplay AI Box and it works great with my Mach-E and it's also able to communicate with the cars onboard GPS, so no need for any external dangles or antennas to use mapping apps.
Here's a screenshot of my latest charge session where I was watching YouTube. But of course you have Netflix, Prime, Hulu or pretty much any other media app since it's a fully functional Android box with a full play store.
It was definitely worth the price in my mind, and I wasn't going to sit around and wait for Ford to implement something via an OTA, since I live in a condo and rely exclusively on public charging, so entertainment is actually pretty important for me while charging.
Which unit did you buy and where?I have the Carplay AI Box and it works great with my Mach-E and it's also able to communicate with the cars onboard GPS, so no need for any external dangles or antennas to use mapping apps.
Here's a screenshot of my latest charge session where I was watching YouTube. But of course you have Netflix, Prime, Hulu or pretty much any other media app since it's a fully functional Android box with a full play store.
It was definitely worth the price in my mind, and I wasn't going to sit around and wait for Ford to implement something via an OTA, since I live in a condo and rely exclusively on public charging, so entertainment is actually pretty important for me while charging.
Yes, I have plenty of tablets in the house and I have absolutely zero desire to sit there holding a tablet while I charge, or leave a big ass non-cooled lithium battery in the cabin of the vehicle to roast on a hot day and potentially spontaneously combust. You ever wonder why even dash cams have moved to super caps and no longer ship with lithium batteries, despite requiring extremely low capacity cells?
I bought it from carplaymmb.com and I chose the "universal" with the "usb C" connection. The one I was shipped was grey, but looking at the site now the box appears to be blue and seems to be a newer version (likely just a different case colour with identical internals).
Ok. I guess I’m not up on exploding dash cams and iPads. Tbh, I’m not even up on dash cams - I thought those were a Russian craze. Anyway, sounds like you found a solution that works for you. Personally, I’m hoping Ford works on getting the basic functionality of the software worked out before adding bells and whistles like Netflix and YouTube support. I’m getting tired of playing games such as “will PaaK work?” and “What’s this random destination in the Nav system?” ?
Perfect. You should use the tablet. The rest of us we prefer to have it built directly into the infotainment system. We live in America where we don't all have to understand each other.
It seems to me that Ford ought to be able to do both. And yet they can’t seem to do either. Here we are fast approaching the end of Q2 2021 and we have yet to see a single update with either discernible bug fixes or enhancements. The one enhancement currently being soft-opened to the early access crowd is a feature that wasn’t on anybody’s wish list, best we can tell, and is unlikely to be used all that much.
How's the stream of Tesla OTA updates been going during these last four months?
