[dirty-jack|]

... I'm trying the Autosky now. It won't launch the web page to update the unit (I DM'd the Autosky account on this site for help), but it does work in my truck, so we'll see how that goes.

YMMV

I wasn't able to get a response back from the Autosky account here, but after sending them an email I had a reply in 15 minutes. Jonathan told me the easiest way to access the setup screen is to do it while it's active in your vehice. Great customer service!
I'm going to play around with various startup delays to see where the sweet spot is.

EDIT: I like how the config screen offers a bunch of options and access to logs files.

 

[FrayAdjacent]

Well, the newer CarlinKit deal still had issues. Similar issues. No upgrades were found for the new one, so I ran it. It seems to run fine... for about 10 minutes, maybe? Then the video starts showing artifacts or corrupting, or it just freezes. Audio continues to stream normally, though. Hitting the Home button on the HU goes back to the Honda home screen. Tapping on the CarPlay button causes a complete disconnect of the CarlinKit unit, but often times it will restart itself, reconnect, and then resume.... for a few minutes until the whole shebang repeats. At least once it has completely caused the head unit to recognize anything, including a wired connection to my 14Pro. A complete shutdown and restart is needed.

I went ahead and ordered the Hieha WIreless Carplay adapter and tried it out this morning.

It would play audio for about .1 second, then pause. Tapping the Play button would cause this to repeat as many times as you want to tap the play button. Video seems to be OK, but I didn't let it run while driving without audio.

BUT... I think I found the issue. The adapter does not like it if your phone's bluetooth is connected to the vehicle's head unit. If I disconnect, audio then plays normally. But then the phone reconnects to the head unit and the audio pauses. I'm guessing a lot of people haven't encountered this because they simply didn't have their phones paired to their vehicle's head unit before setting up the Wireless CP adapter. I had to 'forget' the vehicle's BT to get it to work.

So I'll run with the Hieha adapter for a bit and see if it works well. I haven't tried a phone call on it yet, but I don't get a lot of calls at all, so I don't care all that much if the phone audio quality isn't that great. I can live without that. I just want maps to display properly and audio to play properly.

That's the FIFTH adapter I've tried. The first one had the same "plays audio for .1 second" issue, but I didn't figure out that if I removed the BT connection to the car, it probably would have worked. The CarlinKit units I tried all freeze up video and need to be reset, and they occasionally completely disable connection to the head unit.

I'm still of the mind that the ancient head unit in our trucks is a huge contributor to the issues. I think eventually I will want to replace the head unit with something more modern, faster, that has built-in wireless AA and CP.

 

[HBDave]

@FrayAdjacent I'll be very interested in hearing any updates regarding the Hieha Carplay Adapter. I too ordered the Carlinkit 3.0 and it's been hit or miss. I just ordered the Hieha to see if it's any better.

 

[FrayAdjacent]

@FrayAdjacent I'll be very interested in hearing any updates regarding the Hieha Carplay Adapter. I too ordered the Carlinkit 3.0 and it's been hit or miss. I just ordered the Hieha to see if it's any better.

Drove to the 'office' today and back, probably in the car for 40 minutes or so. It worked fine. The only thing I noticed is that the map orientation rotated out of whack a couple times, but came back. That's a very minor thing.

On the way home, I used Siri for a voice command and it worked fine.

So far, so good. I'll be going to the office again on Thursday. Each way is only 15-20 minutes in the car, but all of the other adapters would have issues within that short timeframe.

 

[HBDave]

Drove to the 'office' today and back, probably in the car for 40 minutes or so. It worked fine. The only thing I noticed is that the map orientation rotated out of whack a couple times, but came back. That's a very minor thing.

On the way home, I used Siri for a voice command and it worked fine.

So far, so good. I'll be going to the office again on Thursday. Each way is only 15-20 minutes in the car, but all of the other adapters would have issues within that short timeframe.

Thanks for the update. I'm still testing the Carlinkit 3.0 until the Hieha Unit arrives on Sunday. It seems that most of the issues are when you first start the car, mixed in with an occasional freezing while driving, etc. Please keep my posted with any new updates and I'll do the same once I have the opportunity to test the Hieha Unit.

 

[dirty-jack|]

Thanks for the update. I'm still testing the Carlinkit 3.0 until the Hieha Unit arrives on Sunday. It seems that most of the issues are when you first start the car, mixed in with an occasional freezing while driving, etc. Please keep my posted with any new updates and I'll do the same once I have the opportunity to test the Hieha Unit.

Indeed, I've found most of the issues present themselves upon startup. The AutoSky allows you to set a time delay for starting up the unit, so you can wait for the Honda head unit to fire up. I've got mine set to 10 seconds. But I've had times where it doesn't connect until I'm almost a block away, while other times it connects before I can put it in drive after backing out of my driveway.

 

[FrayAdjacent]

Another day of several drives with the Heiha. It seems to work pretty well so far. Only once did it seem to fail to start up when I started the truck. I haven't looked into the start delay, but will probably set that to a few seconds if needed. Otherwise, my phone connects after a few moments, audio plays well and the maps (either Google, Waze or Apple) run well and update normally. I only observed one video stutter and a couple audio stutters, but that's it.

So far, I'm pretty pleased.

It allows me to use the RAM ball mount thing with the Apple MagSafe charger. I can just stick my phone on it and go, then grab my phone and get out when done. I love not having to connect cables and such.

 

[DockingPilot]

Did you update it before installing or use it as it came delivered ?


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[HBDave]

Another day of several drives with the Heiha. It seems to work pretty well so far. Only once did it seem to fail to start up when I started the truck. I haven't looked into the start delay, but will probably set that to a few seconds if needed. Otherwise, my phone connects after a few moments, audio plays well and the maps (either Google, Waze or Apple) run well and update normally. I only observed one video stutter and a couple audio stutters, but that's it.

So far, I'm pretty pleased.

It allows me to use the RAM ball mount thing with the Apple MagSafe charger. I can just stick my phone on it and go, then grab my phone and get out when done. I love not having to connect cables and such.

Thanks again for taking the time to update us!

 

[HBDave]

Another day of several drives with the Heiha. It seems to work pretty well so far. Only once did it seem to fail to start up when I started the truck. I haven't looked into the start delay, but will probably set that to a few seconds if needed. Otherwise, my phone connects after a few moments, audio plays well and the maps (either Google, Waze or Apple) run well and update normally. I only observed one video stutter and a couple audio stutters, but that's it.

So far, I'm pretty pleased.

It allows me to use the RAM ball mount thing with the Apple MagSafe charger. I can just stick my phone on it and go, then grab my phone and get out when done. I love not having to connect cables and such.

I'm assuming you're having less issues with the Heiha then the Carlinkit. It seems all of these devices have their issues; the challenge is to find one with the least issues.

 

[FrayAdjacent]

I'm assuming you're having less issues with the Heiha then the Carlinkit. It seems all of these devices have their issues; the challenge is to find one with the least issues.

Definitely fewer issues. I did check for and apply an update, even though the documentation that came with it says something like "if it works, don't update it!" LOL

The startup issue happened once so far, other than that, it just seems to work. I'm happy with it so far.

 

[HBDave]

Wow, the Heiha is much better. I've only had the Heiha for a couple of hours, so I'll give another update in a couple of days.

 

[FrayAdjacent]

Today on a run out to actually return one of the CarlinKit adapters to the local Amazon warehouse... the Heiha did disconnect, but it reconnected and resumed everything decently quickly. It's done that once in about 8 trips. I'll have to run a couple errands over the next few days, with a couple being on the other side of Austin, so I'll get some longer drives in. Hopefully no more issues.

I'm also trying out Apple Music since they gave me 6 months free. I had been using Amazon. The issue with Amazon was that it would start playing in the same playlist I had previously been using, but it would skip to a random song and disable shuffle. I always had to open the app on the car display and tap the shuffle button. Apple Music resumes and shuffle is still enabled.

 

[FrayAdjacent]

Update after a couple weeks, the Heiha has not had any issues. It connects and runs reliably. I have seen a couple weird issues with Google Maps (just a blank blue field with the position marker on it) and Waze (draws map and location, but shows me at home, not where I really am)... opening the corresponding app on the phone seems to nudge them into working. I think that's more of an issue with CarPlay on the phone than the wireless adapter.

So overall, I'm pretty happy with the Heiha unit.

Apple Music also works pretty well. It picks up where I last left off and aside from a couple occasional stutters (happens with all BT connections, in my experience) it works fine.

 

[rahtx]

Waze (draws map and location, but shows me at home, not where I really am)... opening the corresponding app on the phone seems to nudge them into working.

Yeah, I've seen that too, in multiple vehicles. One time when it flaked out in my brother's Dodge, it took fully rebooting his iPhone to restore Waze functionality.

 

[blaugherty1976]

Just ordered the Hieha on Amazon for $57, hoping to have no issues with our '23 RTL-E, it's arriving on Friday and will report back our findings after we run around this weekend.

 

[HBDave]

Just ordered the Hieha on Amazon for $57, hoping to have no issues with our '23 RTL-E, it's arriving on Friday and will report back our findings after we run around this weekend.

I currently have the Hieha and it appears to be working fine on my 2018 RTL-E.

 

[Sparkland]

The new Apple CarPlay is coming out at the end of the year. I wonder if any of the Honda lineup will be set up to use the available features.

Apple Launching All-New CarPlay Experience Later This Year With These 5 Features - MacRumors

 

[ZombiePhysicist]

I’ve tried a bunch of devices listed here. They all suffer the same thing. They work like poop if you use 2 phones. many work well if you have just the one phone, but if you share the truck, it just doesn’t work.

Sometimes one of the devices will work, but the other needs to disconnect and then reconnect its Bluetooth and it may or may not then work. Other dongles work like that and kind of reset the “default user”.

Anyway, I’ve given up and gone back to the cable.

 

[blaugherty1976]

Happy to report the Hieha device worked great all weekend, noting we only plan on connecting 1 phone to the Hieha. I also know I can simply swap the cable and connect to the another phone and use wired Apple CarPlay when sharing the truck. There is a slight delay getting connected, maybe 30 seconds, but it is so nice to just jump in the truck, wait for Apple CarPlay to launch and enjoy a cable free life, not to mention I don't worry about using the wireless charger with a wired phone connected anymore. I do plan on running a longer USB-A to USB-C cable so I can hide the little adapter behind the dash.