I'm just embarking on this as well. My current thinking is to mount the tablet magnetically on this thing.
Bought this dongle.
Installed the app on a 2015 Fire 7 tablet I had laying around. I may deregister the tablet from my Amazon account just to guard against the app-from-random-website buying Amazon stuff or Audible books.
Seems to work fine sitting here on my dining room table, but the first OTG/Charging adapter I bought doesn't support OTG and charging simultaneously, so that's going back and I'm going to try this or this to see which one wins.
Both the phone and the tablet do show up as "Charging" when this first adapter is in "Charging" mode, though, so that isn't something I'm worried about yet. Worst case I suppose I use something like this to get power to the phone individually.
I'm planning to mount the Carlink widget on the back of the tablet with some command adhesive or what have you, then I can pop it off and toss it in the glovebox when parking.
I haven't yet tested the Bluetooth connection from the Fire to the car, but worst case I use an aux cable.
So far I'm pretty excited. I just bought a 2014 Leaf and am missing CarPlay from the car I replaced. When I bought it I started looking into that $500 contraption that hooks into the reverse camera, then started thinking about what would be involved in making a minimal "CarPlay" screen maybe out of an RPi touch screen. Then happened upon this widget.
The fallback plan is to buy a cheap carplay-compatible head unit and disassemble it so I can mount the screen on a stick and put the head unit itself under the seat [this Leaf has the "fancy" stereo that's tied into the climate control and such].
Try to see if it charges your phone. Make sure you're using at least a 2A power supply my first one didn't provide power and I contacted Inateck directly and they sent me a second one for free--I didn't even have to return the old one (hell, I could have just lied but honest to god it didn't work). The OTG worked great, so I can still use it for my phone if I don't need to simultaneously charge it. So I'd try to contact them directly. Through their site you can find a link to contact them on Facebook Messenger.
I've had two and neither charge my phone or provide power to the PSC (used a 2.0A power supply). I know it has worked for plenty of people here so it leads me to believe something about their design has changed. It makes me wonder why the support person from Inateck believed it should work too. Maybe it's supposed to but they've fudged something up in their design; or maybe it actually changed considering on Amazon it says it doesn't provide power. Either way, I've been using this https://www.amazon.com/AuviPal-Micro-USB-Cable-Power/dp/B07FY9Z9GD and it works perfect. I hadn't tested the second Inateck when I first wrote this comment; I thought I had but I just double checked now and indeed it doesn't work either.
We are left with about 5 gig after amazon OS and additional bloat. They just want you to live in their sphere and use the apps provided that they have partnered with. They permit sideloading knowing it is a selling point but they do not care that you run out of space adding your APK's.
You can easily add additional storage with an OTG cable. Before I gave mine to family I had them all set up with an OTG
But I used this style
I used powerd usb 3.0 hub with ethernet. I prefer future proof and overkill even if the micro usb part isn't as fast on the stick. I did not like the UGREEN I posted below because the blue led was super bright, good quality. I can't find the link to the ones I ended up using that did not have a light. But you can get a cheaper one that isn't powered also.
This way you have USB for storage, keyboard, and ethernet for better more solid performance.
I also recommend the Fire tv debloat tool and the Wolf Launcher for best performance.
You can google any of that for help, instructions and visuals.
Try these:
https://www.amazon.com/AuviPal-Micro-USB-Cable-Power/dp/B07FY9Z9GD
or this
https://www.amazon.com/AuviPal-Powered-Adapter-Charging-Streaming/dp/B07TX8FY6W
plus this
https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Ethernet-1000Mbps-Nintendo-Chromebook/dp/B00LLUEJFU/ref=sr_1_9
and this
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-32GB-Ultra-Flash-Drive/dp/B077VXV323/ref=sr_1_5
and you're good to go. I have this setup on 9 different systems, all work flawlessly. Move all your apps to the disk (disk set up as extended internal storage) thus freeing up space and improving performance. The internet adapter you show has a limit as to the allowed speed (100).
Can I ask what you are trying to do? That screen won't go away until it connects with the remote. If you have a remote and just want to use a mouse/KB then you have to get a small OTG cable that hooks to the stick. This is the one I have used in the past and it works.
Just get an OTG cable, you won't ever have to worry about power draw again and you will now have the second port free for a second controller. Here's the OTG cable I use - I don't recommend getting one of the "right angle" ones, they tend to be poor quality and break/fail easily.
Alternatively, if you have a powered USB hub, you can plug that into the wall, the hub into the second controller port, and the USB drive into the hub, and that should work okay, but it's clunkier. I only do this when I need to use a USB wifi adapter as well (since my OTG only has one USB port and the controller ports can't power my wifi adapter).
I think what you need is something named a OTG + Power cable, something like this
that one have a female usb conector, but you can use a male to male cable for it.
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Maybe check out the canonical page instead: https://www.amazon.com/AuviPal-Micro-USB-Cable-Power/dp/B07FY9Z9GD
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Get your money back and get this. It comes with two and both worked flawlessly for me https://www.amazon.com/AuviPal-Micro-USB-Cable-Power/dp/B07FY9Z9GD. We need a PSA saying to stay away from the Inateck. I'm not sure why they are so highly recommended.
If you're in the US, I have a spare powered USB hub I can mail you, if you pay for shipping. This is the one I have
You'd need something like this OTG USB cable, plugged into your Firestick with the controller plugged into it: https://www.amazon.com/AuviPal-Micro-USB-Cable-Power/dp/B07FY9Z9GD
Like this one?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FY9Z9GD/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I recall it being referenced somewhere.
I am using the AuviPal OTG from Amazon. It came in a two pack and with trying them both out I still was not successful. I went ahead and chose this based off the reviews from other people using it for Classic Systems.
Works for me. I've got the OTG which was recommended by /u/archieboy in his PSA post.
Although, I'm not playing SEGA CD games, I can't imagine it being any different for those than the games I've got loaded on the USB.
Link to OTG - which seems to be the same as what you're using. I suspect something else to be afoot. I don't have any SEGA CD games to try though, never owned one sadly. But I could probably find Sonic CD - I have that on Steam, iOS and PS3.
It'll be a few hours before I can test.
I bought three of them: 1 64GB for the PS Classic, 2 16GB for the SNES Mini and NES Mini. I have Autobleem set up on the 64GB using FAT32. It didn't work with exFAT, which was previously set up for Bleemsync.
Edit: BTW, those 90 degree OTG adapters you see in my list? They are terrible. I bought the 2-in-1 OTG cable here, and they've been working perfectly.
So far I can share that the the UGREEN for FireTV, etc (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1X28F1) doesn't work. At all.
The same with the Pluggable USB 2.0 OTG Micro-B adapter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RM3KXAU). Nothing.
The Linksys USB3GIGV1 gets there partway. The kernel identifies and it and loads the RTL8192 driver. There is something else that prevents it from working. I haven't figured that part out yet.
Using these to insert power https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FY9Z9GD.
We have been waiting for months for OTG support and it's finally here! I suggest you buy some cheapass OTG cable like this
I use a clone of this and can finally boot from a usb drive that refused to boot from the front ports.
So how I have it setup is that I'd plug the ethernet adapter into something like this.
I am using the back port with this adapter that was suposed to be compatible with my usb drive https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FY9Z9GD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
