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Wireless Apple CarPlay on your Windows PC: music, navigation, calls and Siri through your PC's speakers and
microphone, controlled with your mouse and keyboard. This is the first release.

Install

  1. Download ChairPlay-1.0.0-setup.exe below and run it. No administrator rights needed. If Windows SmartScreen
    warns about an unrecognized app, choose More info → Run anyway.
  2. Pair your iPhone with the PC once, in Windows Settings → Bluetooth & devices.
  3. Open ChairPlay. The Get started screen checks the MFi files, the firewall, the paired iPhone and the Wi-Fi
    network, and ticks each step off as soon as it's ready.
  4. Unlock your iPhone and tap Allow. CarPlay comes up.

A newer installer updates ChairPlay and keeps your settings, pairing and MFi files. Uninstalling asks whether to
delete them too.

What you need

  • An iPhone with CarPlay.
  • A Windows 10 or 11 PC (64-bit) with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
  • One Wi-Fi network for the PC and the iPhone that lets devices see each other (guest networks usually don't), with
    WPA2 or no password.
  • An Apple MFi identity. ChairPlay doesn't include one and can't: you supply your own.
    The setup guide shows where the files go.

Features

  • CarPlay in a resizable window; the mouse works as touch.
  • Keyboard controls like a car's knob and buttons, and on-screen car controls from the toolbar's Controls button.
  • Sound and microphone on the devices you choose, with a volume separate from Windows'.
  • AltScreen (experimental): a car's instrument cluster as a second CarPlay screen in its own window, with the
    map, the turn card or both, in a preset part of the cluster or a rectangle you draw. It can also show a HUD: the
    next turn with animated 3D maneuvers, the distance, the arrival time and the song.
  • GPS spoofing (experimental): the iPhone navigates by a virtual car you drive with the keyboard or a gamepad.

The keys are listed in the README.

Good to know

  • Close ChairPlay with its window. If it's killed mid-session, from Task Manager for example, the iPhone may ignore
    new connections until you restart the iPhone.
  • It works over Wi-Fi only, not over USB or a hotspot shared by the PC.
  • Calls sound best with headphones. Echo cancellation for speakers is experimental and off by default.

Report a problem

Open an issue: About → Report a problem fills in the
version for you. For a connection problem, set Log level to Info on the Experiments page, try again, and
attach the log: the Logs button on that page opens its folder.

Credits

Built on DiPlay by shihabal3amri and
xcertplay by shilapi; the HUD's 3D maneuvers are LuKa's, from
mib2q-carplay-rgi. GPL-3.0.

CarPlay, iPhone, AirPlay and Siri are trademarks of Apple Inc. ChairPlay is not affiliated with Apple and does not
include any Apple MFi identity.

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