I’ve just installed EVPlay and I’m getting errors that the wifi is too weak. I have the EVPlay box on the floorboard and have moved my phone right next to it. Nearly touching. No matter where I place it, it just says that the WiFi is too weak. I tried 2.4 and 5ghz. I don’t have any content blockers on my phone and the other CarPlay screen that I’ve had in the truck for more than a year works just fine.
I’m on iOS 26 public beta.
When I can get it to respond, the lower left hand corner dots (menu) is not bringing up the menu. They just bring up Siri. There’s no way for me to get to the menu.
Is there anything I can do to diagnose this?
I should note that when I plug into the hardwired connection, things perform as expected. No problems. It’s just wireless.
I’ve just installed EVPlay and I’m getting errors that the wifi is too weak. I have the EVPlay box on the floorboard and have moved my phone right next to it. Nearly touching. No matter where I place it, it just says that the WiFi is too weak. I tried 2.4 and 5ghz. I don’t have any content blockers on my phone and the other CarPlay screen that I’ve had in the truck for more than a year works just fine.
I’m on iOS 26 public beta.
When I can get it to respond, the lower left hand corner dots (menu) is not bringing up the menu. They just bring up Siri. There’s no way for me to get to the menu.
Is there anything I can do to diagnose this?
You did plug in the supplied WiFi dongle right?
I have something very similar. Installed yesterday, I had to reboot the vehicle and 'forget' the bluetooth and wifi details multiple times before I finally got the carplay to connect, but I get that same error - and the screen is barely responsive and unusable. Also using the wifi dongle. Image of the error attached.
Any ideas ?
@runningdenver Yup. This happened to me as well. Had to forget multiple times. Wired connection works fine.
@mark - the problem is - I don't want a wired connection. I've had the Ev Sportline carplay for 18+ months and it's worked seamlessly. Hopefully this can be figured. If you work it out - please post here. cheers
I heard from another user with iOS 26 Public Beta of a similar issue, so thinking it might be related. I will look in to that.
Of note, EV Play has 2 WiFI and Bluetooth modules - one for the Android device, and one just for AA/CP. If you aren't using the Android device, suggest turning off bluetooth and Wifi.
Also note that you don't connect to EV Play WiFi or Bluetooth (if you did, remove those entries from your phone). The AA/CP module Bluetooth and WiFI should say Autokit-xxxx, and Autobox-xxxx, respectively, and all you need to do to establish the AA/CP wireless connection is pair the Autokit-xxxx Bluetooth connection. AA/CP will establish the WiFi connection on its own and attempt to connect. Ensure the Autobox connection is the 5GHZ channel, it will not work on the 2.4GHZ channel (too slow).
Make sure your phone's mobile hotspot it turned off – you cannot use it while wireless CarPlay/Android Auto is connected (too much bandwidth).
Finally, you may be in a location with too much 5GHZ wifi noise on the default channel. To change the 5GHZ channel, do the following:
1) Break any current wireless Android Auto/CarPlay connections by turning off Bluetooth and WiFi on your phone.
2) Click on Settings (gear icon) in the AA/CP app.
3) Turn back on WiFi and forget/unpair/delete all SAVED Autokit Bluetooth and Autobox WiFi connections on your phone.
4) Connect to the Autobox-xxxx WiFi signal. Password is 12345678
5) In Safari (iPhone) or Opera (Android) enter: 192.168.43.1 in the browser address bar. Accept any notifications that the WiFi signal has a poor internet connection. If it doesn't load, hit refresh. A web page will load that has various settings for the app.
6) Click on the Other Settings icon (see attached screen shot) and change the 5GHZ WiFI channel to 161. Make sure not to click on the 2.4GHZ channel! Click "Confirm" to reboot, then try again.
@evplayadmin Happy to report that the channel change worked. Nice and snappy now.
@evplayadmin - I tried all these things, although couldn't get 192.168.43.1 to resolve - I connected okay to the network with the wifi/12345678, but with multiple browsers (safari, opera, and 'browser'), and also trying with an ipad - but that page wouldn't resolve. So I couldn't change the 5ghz channel. Any other options ?
I tried connecting hardwired too as a test - and that wouldn't work either, although it looks like the device is still trying to connect through bluetooth/wireless.
Any other ideas ?
This is pretty frustrating. I've spent hours trying and re-trying various things. I wondered if it was a problem with the wifi dongle, so got another overnight to test. Unfortunately it seems that requires another driver to be installed (the device doesn't appear to recognize it), so that's not going to work.
Hoping you can get something figured here. It looks good in your videos, so hoping this is fixable.
@evplayadmin - I tried all these things, although couldn't get 192.168.43.1 to resolve - I connected okay to the network with the wifi/12345678, but with multiple browsers (safari, opera, and 'browser'), and also trying with an ipad - but that page wouldn't resolve. So I couldn't change the 5ghz channel. Any other options ?
I tried connecting hardwired too as a test - and that wouldn't work either, although it looks like the device is still trying to connect through bluetooth/wireless.
Any other ideas ?
This is pretty frustrating. I've spent hours trying and re-trying various things. I wondered if it was a problem with the wifi dongle, so got another overnight to test. Unfortunately it seems that requires another driver to be installed (the device doesn't appear to recognize it), so that's not going to work.
Hoping you can get something figured here. It looks good in your videos, so hoping this is fixable.
Double-checking the AA/CP (Autokit) app is on the Settings screen -- not the main screen -- when you try to bring up the 192.168.43.1 page.
I'm also really surprised the hardwire connection isn't working, that's a pretty failsafe way to connect. You're using the single (black) USB port, correct?
Also confirming Decoding method is set to Software. If it is, perhaps try Hardware.
Any apps on your phone that might be interfering -- virus, wifi, bluetooth?
I'm happy to set up a Facetime call tomorrow if that's of interest.
I'm having the same issue (just sent a support email.) I went through the steps Alex listed above but it didn't help. Now I can't access the EVPlay wifi at all to try different 5ghz channels. Has anyone else been able to solve this? Yes, I'm in one of the white USB ports with the Dongle. Is there a way to check if the status of the CP wifi module? I'm not seeing Autobox-xxxx in available networks anymore.
I'm having the same issue (just sent a support email.) I went through the steps Alex listed above but it didn't help. Now I can't access the EVPlay wifi at all to try different 5ghz channels. Has anyone else been able to solve this? Yes, I'm in one of the white USB ports with the Dongle. Is there a way to check if the status of the CP wifi module? I'm not seeing Autobox-xxxx in available networks anymore.
If you get to this point and the Autobox-xxxx WiFI signal will not show up, try the steps below:
1) “Forget” all instances of Autokit/Autbox Bluetooth and WiFi connections on your phone and turn off your phone’s Bluetooth and WiFi.
2) Once you are on the main AA/CP Autokit app (blue) screen, click the settings (gear) icon in the top left corner. Scroll down and click on Advanced Settings, then select Restore Default Settings. Give it about 30 seconds to reboot.
3) Since this clears all the settings, once this screen re-appears, click on the gear icon again and select Decoding Method = Software. Then back out to the main screen where it says “Connect your phone” (or sometimes “Insert Product”)
4) Now, on your phone, turn back on WiFi, then turn back on Bluetooth. On your Bluetooth screen you should see the Autokit-xxxx entry appear. Pair with that, then EV Play should begin the wireless CarPlay/Android Auto process.
Since we wiped the settings, these are some of the other ones you'll want to set once you confirm everything works:
(turn off WiFi on your phone to break the AA/CP connection)
Gear Icon>Advanced Settings (in this order):
Audio Routing: "Bluetooth" if CarPlay, "Box" if Android Auto
App Full-Screen: Yes (the app crashes itself to apply this setting, totally normal).
Then turn WiFi back on.
I tried your latest steps and it got Autobox-xxxx back in the list of access points but connecting to it with the password wouldn't resolve the configuration ip and either way, Carplay still won't connect. It looks like i'm not alone with this issue. I don't know if there were some bad wifi modules or dongles but I'm out of options for getting this to work. I'll shoot you another support email. Unless you know of more configuration steps, we should move onto swapping hardware so I can get a unit that works. Thanks.