Use Raspberry Pi 3 A+ as Airplay receiver in car

1st Official Post

    Hi,

    I'm trying to set up my Raspberry Pi 3 A+ as an Airplay receiver for my car. I installed LibreELEC on it, activated the AirPlay feature in KODI and switched on the Wifi Access Point feature (very handy) in LibreELEC settings. Now it already works quite well, I can choose the wifi network created by LibreELEC on my phone and stream my music via Airplay :) The only problem is that now my iphone won't use its cellular data anymore because its connected to the wifi network. Do you have an idea how to change that? On another forum a user said that it will work if the Raspberry doesn't send a DNS server address to the phone. Unfortunately I could not find a way to this.

    Kind Regards

    Lars

    • Official Post

    If the phone ends up with a link-local address (169.x.x.x) the iPhone will not see the connection as routable so data continues to work as normal. The hotspot feature in ConnMan (the connection manager) only allows you to set on/off and ssid/passphrase though (same as the phone hotspot which is what the feature was designed for) .. so it's not possible to set/control that.

    In theory if you share a hotspot from the phone you achieve the same thing (RPi and Phone have an IP connection) but the phone remains the internet connected device. I've never tested to see whether the Phone can see the Kodi Airplay target in this mode though. Go see if that works?