Tesla fans are usually also very fans of Apple, but, curiously, the car brand does not seem to have much interest, at the moment, in being compatible with the brand of the bitten apple. However, someone has gotten Apple CarPlay to work on their Tesla . And it has done it, of course, with the most versatile device that exists, a Raspberry Pi. We’ll tell you all the details, because it’s a downright ingenious feat.
For some reason that escapes many, Tesla vehicles do almost everything, except be compatible with the Apple CarPlay of the famous Cupertino brand.
Elon Musk seems to still be more interested in making a mess of it on Twitter than in making this feature a reality in his cars, so a software developer, tired of waiting, has gotten to work and managed to get Apple CarPlay to work in his Tesla, using a Raspberry Pi .
How to get CarPlay in a Tesla
The Polish engineer Michał Gapiński shared a curious video on his Twitter account in which he showed how he had managed to run Apple CarPlay in the integrated browser of his Tesla car.
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
In this way, it has achieved what many iPhone owners wanted, to combine their CarPlay with the star vehicles of the moment.
Not only that, Michał Gapiński’s development has made it run in perfect resolution on the main screen of his car, as can be seen in the images in this other tweet from his account.
The resolution is now perfect 😍😍😍 #teslaCarPlay pic.twitter.com/k11YJukIpA
— Michał Gapiński (@mikegapinski) January 14, 2022
I’m not going to pretend that I understand what this engineer has done to make it work, but from what he has explained, it consists of installing a custom version of Android on the Raspberry , which, in turn, installs a program written by himself and who achieves the miracle.
Connected the Raspberry to the vehicle and the phone to the Raspberry, this Android and its software would act as a bridge between the iPhone and the Tesla , so that CarPlay can be viewed and managed from the main screen of the vehicle.
This is what many users have been waiting for and, although few people are going to dare to start this hack , many are really curious to see the software that has been developed to achieve the feat.
For now, the Polish programmer has said that he will make his program available to everyone , but not yet. That will only happen when you polish it quite a bit more, until you create a first minimally usable version.
You’ll probably have to sweat quite a bit to get the same as Gapiński, but if you have money for iPhones and Teslas , you can probably hire a developer to do it for you.
At the moment, this is the only way you can use CarPlay in a Tesla and only one man has achieved it. Or at least, only one has shared it on Twitter. We will see if Elon Musk has seen it and says something that, hopefully, will not be another nonsense of his.