Can I use my Lightning's WiFi while using Carplay?

[Hunter]

I pay the monthly bill through AT&T to have Wifi in my Lightning. However if I use Apple Carplay, I can't use the Wifi. My phone won't connect and my kids' tablets won't connect. Am I doing something wrong or does Carplay disable the truck's Wifi?

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[Grease Lightning]

I pay the monthly bill through AT&T to have Wifi in my Lightning. However if I use Apple Carplay, I can't use the Wifi. My phone won't connect and my kids' tablets won't connect. Am I doing something wrong or does Carplay disable the truck's Wifi?

You have to use wired CarPlay if you want to use the trucks wifi too.

Super easy to do

 

[Hunter]

Does that mean I have to have my phone plugged into the USB if I want to use my Wifi?

 

[KennyB123]

Does that mean I have to have my phone plugged into the USB if I want to use my Wifi?

Yes.

 

[tls]

I pay the monthly bill through AT&T to have Wifi in my Lightning. However if I use Apple Carplay, I can't use the Wifi. My phone won't connect and my kids' tablets won't connect. Am I doing something wrong or does Carplay disable the truck's Wifi?

No. Ford did something wrong - they chained themselves by the ankles to a dying software platform (QNX) and jumped into the deep end.

The WiFi hardware in our trucks is capable of running multiple networks at once. But the WiFi software stack in QNX is not. CarPlay (and Android Auto) in wireless mode use a hidden WiFi network created by the truck ("ProJacXYZ") to transmit data to the screen so, since the hotspot feature would require another network - no work.

That's why your kids' phones don't work in the back. It's Ford's fault for refusing to see the writing on the wall when the crawling stock-fraud zombie of BlackBerry bought QNX and put on a crash program to migrate Sync to run on Linux instead.

Your own phone, on the other hand, not seeing the hotspot is a combination of Apple's fault (for not being able to connect as a client to one WiFi network and use it for Internet access while connecting to another and using it for CarPlay) and Ford's fault (for not being able to route traffic to the Internet over the "ProJac" network used for CarPlay data).

In sum: it's a software mess, mostly Ford's fault; work around it in hardware by plugging in with a USB cable.

 

[Hunter]

No. Ford did something wrong - they chained themselves by the ankles to a dying software platform (QNX) and jumped into the deep end.

The WiFi hardware in our trucks is capable of running multiple networks at once. But the WiFi software stack in QNX is not. CarPlay (and Android Auto) in wireless mode use a hidden WiFi network created by the truck ("ProJacXYZ") to transmit data to the screen so, since the hotspot feature would require another network - no work.

That's why your kids' phones don't work in the back. It's Ford's fault for refusing to see the writing on the wall when the crawling stock-fraud zombie of BlackBerry bought QNX and put on a crash program to migrate Sync to run on Linux instead.

Your own phone, on the other hand, not seeing the hotspot is a combination of Apple's fault (for not being able to connect as a client to one WiFi network and use it for Internet access while connecting to another and using it for CarPlay) and Ford's fault (for not being able to route traffic to the Internet over the "ProJac" network used for CarPlay data).

In sum: it's a software mess, mostly Ford's fault; work around it in hardware by plugging in with a USB cable.

Thanks, that was an awesome explanation!!!!!

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