AirPlay To Your CarPlay Display | Ottocast MX Wireless & AirPlay Video Streaming Adapter Review 

You’re connecting to your phone hotspot I assume?

This one is on the low end of the spectrum of adapter hardware. So it can struggle a bit hence its price

Do you just want Android auto or do you need the video functionality ?

@@CarPlayLife Just android auto

In that case there’s some better adapters coming out soon. I hope to have reviews of them out over the next 2 weeks

@@CarPlayLife please suggest one for recent purchase

Yes, casting would have been better than screen mirroring. It’s way more intuitive to do it from the app than through Mission Control etc. I found the same issue with video lag. I think it can’t be improved really, which is sad as that’s the main USP of this adapter.

@@CarPlayLife I'll be honest, I wouldn't have a problem to pay more money for better HW without lag and with AirPlay stream. What is the problem with simple AirPlay at all? Do you have any idea? Why need for mirroring anyway?

It’s down to what they can do off the shelf I think. Many of these adapters are rebrands, they don’t go that deep with their own customisations or software changes. So they have to roll with what they have on the SoC Supplying support for iOS and not Android shows there’s a limited software or hardware to keep this cheap. Sadly it doesn’t work all that great though in practice. More should focus on airplay and native casting from apps. Ditch the screen mirroring, it’s never as easy to use. If someone does that right they will be onto a winner! 👀

@@CarPlayLife you dont suppose you have any suggestions for adapters that can do airplay streaming and not just screen mirror? or perhaps any alternatives to this? thanks!

I hope to do an updated video on the best wireless adapters ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XOzgJwpGZNI.htmlfeature=shared

Sadly not. All these need a wired CarPlay system in order to work

@@CarPlayLife No worries thanks for your response 🙏

Yes. This is because you need to connect to the adapter over Bluetooth and I think this particular one doesn’t have dual Bluetooth to allow both devices to connect to it.

In a way yes. It’s like an AI Box so it will do this through an android software app than software on a chip like the u2-x uses. So there will be a little extra boot delay

@@CarPlayLife thank you for replying. I'm looking for an alternative to my Carlinkit 4.0 which can't seem to adapt to my infotainment native screen resolution. I was considering this one over the U2-X pro.

Have you tried updating the 4.0, I thought it has some custom display overrides in the IP config menu that might help with your display issue.

@@CarPlayLife I did reach for support and they suggested to try a specific DPI setting. I also messed around with the display resolution but for some reason the screen of my Chinese import ID3 keeps cropping the bottom part of the AA screen. I haven't been able to update though, because there's a bug in the settings interface when I try to check for updates.

Maybe try a different time of day. Sometimes their servers aren’t ‘ready’ but are at other wises. There’s also file update way of doing it but this is risky as it could brick the adapter if done wrong.

I don’t believe it does. Only adapters that offer this ability in their config menu are CarlinKit adapters

Thanks! Still waiting for one that has gps passthrough and is not carlinkit. Carlinkit performance is quite sub par compared to ottocast u2-X pro but the gps passthrough has helped me many times when I’m in tunnels😊 so still kinda stuck with carlinkit

You might be waiting a while. Unless other makers of the main brand software reengineer or update their software you won't find passthrough on other brands. It seems the software CarlinKit started and then kept for themselves is the only way to go for GPS passthrough. So it's more likely we would see a faster CarlinKit than other brand adapters running software that supports passthrough GPS.

That’s exactly what I would do. The mirroring or casting on these things are never great or when they are ‘ok’ they aren’t as easy to connect up to them as easily/swiftly.

@@CarPlayLife Thanks. I appreciate the help. I was between the MSXTTLY and the Carlinkit 5.0 and they were close in price but I went with the Carlinkit just because it looked like the performance has been adequate with start times but also to have the passthrough GPS seemed like a slight edge for my use over the MSXTTLY. We'll see shortly I guess lol

@SmartFool24 how's your experience with carlinkit nowadays? I want to buy an android auto adapter, and I am exactly in your earlier situation, being confused between MSXTTLY & Carlinkit.

@@SmartFool24but carlinkit doesn’t have cast feature

@@bobka436 I know. I meant to just have the videos play on my phone with audio over my speakers.

No AirPlay is built in to your iPhone to cast from. But the adapter needs a CarPlay car stereo system for it to work with it