Hi all I was thinking of a way to integrate Apple CarPlay with my W205 model. I live in Sydney and I found a company called NaviPlus do all these integration without replacing the original OEM device.
Anyone used this sort of thing before ? They charge $1100 plus $400 to get it installed
where and how did you get it installed ? How much was the price ?
I did it myself using a second hand radio, all up total including a odb programmer was $900. This was a car with the Audio 20 radio rather than COMAND so it may be different for you.
Too much for a single feature upgrade that is Apple CarPlay. Get a new head unit ^ or wait for a new car.
Definitely worth it. CarPlay will surely be worth good money when you resell.
oem experience
Carplay is important to me as I would like to use the Google/Waze or Tomtom Maps which are all worth a lot for me rather than rely on my phone as a docking station and during summer hear the phone gets too hot and I am just destroying my phone.
I also want to use Spotify or even Apple music.
If I have navigation on can I have Spotify playing in the background with AIrplay ? I have never used Carplay and not even use if it uses my phone for a tethered wifi, bluetooth or always on lightening port connection ?
What are my options if it's not Naviplus or if it's Naviplus. I have 2015 COMAND package how do I get a newer entire set and what will it cost me ?
You can listen to music with any CarPlay app while navigating with waze/maps etc, press the media button and it will take you to the app currently playing music, press Navi to return to the navigation and music will still be playing.
I don’t understand your second question, the image in the car screen showing the CarPlay interface/apps is all computed and generated in the phone.
Naviplus just takes the CarPlay image from the phone and runs it into the car as a video stream from my understanding, whether it works seamlessly and with all the cars buttons depends on the programming in naviplus.
Thanks a lot. It makes a lot of things clear and I plan to get CarPlay installed.
Basically I want to know if I’m using Waze or Google navigation and listening to Spotify will that interrupt the voice over ? For example it’s giving me turn by turn direction speed camera warnings and constantly interrupting music. Is there a way around this situation? Also I wasn’t sure if I can click on Spotify during navigation select my music and the system automatically switches to Navigation.
It will act the same way the apps do on your phone, waze pauses the music when it gives directions. In the car I set waze to mute and keep an eye on the screen for directions so it won’t interrupt music.
@jimmytb: that's awesome thank you so much for all the tips and help. I really appreciate you answering all my silly queries.
How do you connect to Carplay is it wireless or by plugging it to your phone ? I also found out also from Navi plus that AUX Activator is important to have not the basic AUX to USB adapter which causes issues with the sound from outside noise / frequency interruption etc.
How do I know that the installer is installing the AUX activator not the AUX to USB ? I'm getting the installer to do everything from me even sourcing the equipment and warranty.
Any updates guys on the functionality of CarPlay?
You can install a later model radio and get the one experience, I did it on a w205 2015