If you don’t have it, use it yourself! Developers adapted their own Tesla Model 3 to support it. Apple CarPlay Maps app, Apple Music can be used.
Developer adapts Tesla cars to support Apple CarPlay
Apple CarPlay is another feature drivers wish they had in Tesla, but Tesla didn’t include this feature in their cars.
Developer Michał Gapiński posted a content and video on Twitter, showing an example of how Tesla can be tuned to support Apple CarPlay in the center screen.
Gapiński uses a Raspberry Pi, an LTE modem, and a Wi-Fi emitter to run his customized Android firmware. In the car, it connects to a Raspberry Pi and sends Apple CarPlay screen images to the Tesla center display, allowing access to Apple apps like Apple Maps, Apple Music through the center screen. including pressing the command via the steering wheel can do
Steering wheel controls + current state of #teslaCarPlay on video. Next step is to improve Wi-Fi connection, the stream is 2x smoother when viewed on my laptop pic.twitter.com/0wFFUQQPkx
– Michał Gapiński (@mikegapinski) January 14, 2022
Gapiński revealed that it is working on further tweaks to Wi-Fi stability for smoother streaming. Of course, this customization is just an initial experiment, but Gapiński hopes to develop it to make it work. and open to others to use in the future
Source: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/01/17/apple-carplay-workaround-for-teslas/
