Photofast AP1000 brings AirPlay audio streaming to your car

For a second I thought we were talking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000

I just tried using an AE hardwired to my car stereo and powered through an inverter and it worked flawlessly! You have to "create a network" but obviously you won't have an Ethernet cable plugged in. Even though the AE doesn't have an external IP it will still hand out private IPs. Which means you can still take advantage of the AirPlay feature. The only caveat, and a quite large one at that, is because your iPhone is connected to a WiFi it routes all Internet traffic through the WiFi which doesn't have a legit outside connection. If there is a way around this it then would be quite the setup.

This would be a huge plus for me - my Acura has an audio input jack (and the 12v power jack) in the center console - it's currently a mess of wires to get anything connected. I could install this in that console and have a wire-free connection to my iPhone. Love it.

TK

Why not just use an Airport Express?

Been wondering when this would happen. Car stereo manufactures (heck, the auto makers, too) should look into incorporating AirPlay in their systems. No more wires dangling out the dash. You can keep the phone in your pocket if you want. It would be just a wifi network not hooked up to the net at the very least (maybe they can throw in a 3G radio in it for internet connection.) Just walk into the car and "boom" the phone is connected to the stereo.

I currently get audio in my car via a Belkin Bluetooth Audio Receiver & a cell phone charger cable.
This is interesting because the Belkin requires me to manually reconnect every time I get in the car. All wifi networks can connect automatically, and are probably less finicky than bluetooth.

I currently get audio in my car via a Belkin Bluetooth Audio Receiver & a cell phone charger cable.
This is interesting because the Belkin requires me to manually reconnect every time I get in the car. All wifi networks can connect automatically, and are probably less finicky than bluetooth.

Off topic, but I am suddenly lamenting that my VW Routan only has composite video inputs for its video entertainment system. An inverter and an Apple TV + AirPlay would have been a great way to serve media. Not that the system could support the 720p signal, which I guess is the point...

I assume your iPhone has to join the wifi network created by the device in order to stream over airplay -- anyone have any guess as to how this will affect internet access? Does the iPhone automatically revert to the cellular data connection if the wifi one is not connected to the internet?