CARPLAY2air

Brian Jones · August 3, 2020

I just watched a couple of YouTubes on these. There are a couple different brands but one thing that stuck out was they said that if you remote start your vehicle it might disconnect. I am very interested in this so I can add in the wireless charging and not have any plugs showing.

eppieguy · August 5, 2020

I screwed around with mine again today, still no luck.

Lyons00 · August 5, 2020

Same thing here!!

Pappy58 · August 6, 2020

This is what happens when you buy crap from China!?

mx_master · August 7, 2020

I got my Carplay2air a few weeks ago and has been flawless in my 2020. I didn’t update it to the newest version as it works perfect and don’t want to chance the update screwing it up. It connects every time but takes about 10-20 seconds

Lyons00 · August 7, 2020

I'm getting a replacement for mine, no lights on it. Hopefully when I get the new one, it will finally work as expected.

mbsfgts · August 9, 2020

Check the USB plug you are using, plug your phone directly into it and verify CarPlay works from that location. Some USB plugs do not go directly to radio

Yxan · August 9, 2020

Interesting, tempted to buy this for my brand new 2020 that somehow lacks wireless CarPlay but has a charger haha

eppieguy · August 10, 2020

On 8/6/2020 at 11:05 PM, mx_master said:

I got my Carplay2air a few weeks ago and has been flawless in my 2020. I didn’t update it to the newest version as it works perfect and don’t want to chance the update screwing it up. It connects every time but takes about 10-20 seconds

Any tips to getting it to work? They told me to make sure my phone and truck isn’t connected to any WiFi’s and a few other steps but nothing works, I can see it’s doing something but not what it’s supposed to do for sure.

mx_master · August 10, 2020

27 minutes ago, eppieguy said:

Any tips to getting it to work? They told me to make sure my phone and truck isn’t connected to any WiFi’s and a few other steps but nothing works, I can see it’s doing something but not what it’s supposed to do for sure.

Hmm the only thing I did was I NEVER updated. So right out of the box this is what I did I started my truck went into the Bluetooth settings to forget my phone. Shut the truck off then started again and plugged the dongle into the usb inside my center console. Then searched for Bluetooth on my phone and connected to the dongle and waited a little while for it to connect then made sure it worked. Then searched for updates to see if it was the latest version it isn’t so I NEVER updates as I wasn’t sure if it’s the new update messing other people’s dongle from working.

Edited August 10, 2020 by mx_master

Tyler1199 · August 10, 2020

Got mine- usually works. I did update mine. My doesn’t always connect but when it does it works pretty good.

mx_master · August 10, 2020

23 minutes ago, Tyler1199 said:

Got mine- usually works. I did update mine. My doesn’t always connect but when it does it works pretty good.

Yeah mine is still pretty new so far out of 30-40 times I jumped in the truck to go for a drive it has connected every time. I don’t think I’ll do any updates unless it stops working. I have heard of people’s going to crap after a month or two so time will tell.

Edited August 10, 2020 by mx_master

Tyler1199 · August 10, 2020

Yeah mine is still pretty new so far out of 30-40 times I jumped in the truck to go for a drive it has connected every time. I don’t think I’ll do any updates unless it stops working. I have heard of people’s going to crap after a month or two so time will tell.

Mines new as well- mine will say connect a compatible phone. Sometimes it will register when I start driving. Mine usually takes 2-3 minutes after starting before it’s up and going. It’s a decent piece. Hoping that 2021 GM option for the wireless CarPlay will be able to be retrofitted into my 20’.

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mx_master · August 10, 2020

10 minutes ago, Tyler1199 said:

Mines new as well- mine will say connect a compatible phone. Sometimes it will register when I start driving. Mine usually takes 2-3 minutes after starting before it’s up and going. It’s a decent piece. Hoping that 2021 GM option for the wireless CarPlay will be able to be retrofitted into my 20’.

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Yeah mine has done that a few times as well but will always connect. Yep I’m also waiting for the 2021 retro idea I looked that up first to see if the new 2021Tahoe would work but no one has done it yet so I’ll go with this dongle for now till we can retro fit the 2021 modules in.