Carlinkit CPC200-AutoKit support

[noobychris]

Hello dear Hudiy support,

i just wanted to ask, why there is no (official) Carlinkit CPC200-AutoKit support?

As i am a previous user of OpenAuto Pro, i know there was a config tweak to enable CCPA support there.
Because i still have my Carlinkit CPC200-AutoKit i've tried my luck and had success

I've changed the "productId" in the "/home/pi/.hudiy/share/config/main_configuration.json" config file from "5409" (CPC200-CCPA) to "5408" (CPC200-AutoKit) and it worked fine:
-Carplay works
-Autobox Music player works
-Media Metadata via API works

Are there any chances to get official support in Hudiy for Carlinkit CPC200-AutoKit without the need to change the "productId".
Were there any reasons why you didn*t support Carlinkit CPC200-AutoKit out of the box?

[hudiy]

Hello,
Autokit and CCPA dongles basically should share the same protocol. From our research, Autokit devices are discontinued, with CCPA being their successor. We weren’t able to get our hands on an Autokit device, so we couldn’t officially confirm support since there was no way to test it.

Thanks a lot for your feedback and for testing the Autokit dongle - that’s definitely valuable information for other users.

[noobychris]

Hello,
Autokit and CCPA dongles basically should share the same protocol. From our research, Autokit devices are discontinued, with CCPA being their successor. We weren’t able to get our hands on an Autokit device, so we couldn’t officially confirm support since there was no way to test it.

Thanks a lot for your feedback and for testing the Autokit dongle - that’s definitely valuable information for other users.

Any chances that you could change the hudiy code, that the json file / hudiy accept arrays like:

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"productId": [5408, 5409],

If i try to use a array like this, hudiy automatically changes it back to (CCPA):

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"productId" : 5409,

Thanks a lot. Chris

[hudiy]

Something like an allowed list for productIds? Yes, that should be doable. The only limitation is that only one dongle can be active at a time. If both a CCPA and an AutoKit are plugged in, we can’t control which one gets detected first - that mostly depends on udev.

Also, Hudiy currently treats productId as an int. If you pass an array as the value of this field, the default will be used instead - that’s why it fell back to CCPA.

[noobychris]

Something like an allowed list for productIds? Yes, that should be doable. The only limitation is that only one dongle can be active at a time. If both a CCPA and an AutoKit are plugged in, we can’t control which one gets detected first - that mostly depends on udev.

Also, Hudiy currently treats productId as an int. If you pass an array as the value of this field, the default will be used instead - that’s why it fell back to CCPA.

That would be awesome Maybe you could put this on your to do list for the next release? And maybe predefine both product ids as allowed ones so that it works out of the box and the users don’t have to change config files?

Really thanks a lot for responding that fast and pushing things forward. I’m really exited for the next releases!

[hudiy]

We’ve scheduled the version freeze for August 29th, so we’ll be on time with this change. The release itself should land in the first half of September.

In the new version, there will be improvements for zero-copy, which should have a positive impact on the smoothness of CarPlay and Android Auto projection. We’re also adding the mentioned shader for better WebView scaling.

The default value will be set to [5408, 5409] anyway, but until we manage to get our hands on an AutoKit device (most likely second-hand), we unfortunately can’t provide an official confirmation of support for that dongle on our website.

[alex124.rh]

It seems that the autokit version is available on aliexpress.

[noobychris]

We’ve scheduled the version freeze for August 29th, so we’ll be on time with this change. The release itself should land in the first half of September.

In the new version, there will be improvements for zero-copy, which should have a positive impact on the smoothness of CarPlay and Android Auto projection. We’re also adding the mentioned shader for better WebView scaling.

The default value will be set to [5408, 5409] anyway, but until we manage to get our hands on an AutoKit device (most likely second-hand), we unfortunately can’t provide an official confirmation of support for that dongle on our website.

I could send you my CPC200-Autokit. I already have the CCPA Shipping from Germany to Poland should be no problem. You could keep the CPC200-Autokit or send it back to me after testing Just DM me your address and I will send you mine

[hudiy]

We’ve scheduled the version freeze for August 29th, so we’ll be on time with this change. The release itself should land in the first half of September.

In the new version, there will be improvements for zero-copy, which should have a positive impact on the smoothness of CarPlay and Android Auto projection. We’re also adding the mentioned shader for better WebView scaling.

The default value will be set to [5408, 5409] anyway, but until we manage to get our hands on an AutoKit device (most likely second-hand), we unfortunately can’t provide an official confirmation of support for that dongle on our website.

I could send you my CPC200-Autokit. I already have the CCPA Shipping from Germany to Poland should be no problem. You could keep the CPC200-Autokit or send it back to me after testing Just DM me your address and I will send you mine

Thank you . We managed to get an Autokit dongle from the second-hand market today. It should arrive next week, and we'll finally be able to test it.

btw. the change with allowed devices for Autobox is ready and will be included in next release. Config looks like below:

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"autobox" : {
    ...
    "allowedDevices" : [
        {
            "vendorId" : 4884,
            "productId" : 5408
        },
        {
            "vendorId" : 4884,
            "productId" : 5409
        }
    ],
    ...
}

[Caiimen]

Hello, I'm contacting you because I paid for the CPC200-2air. I followed your advice but it still doesn't work for me :/

https://www.carlinkit.com/2air