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USB location for direct connection to CarPlay?

So funny finding this thread as I too have just mounted a starling mini to the Grenny. And then like everyone else discovered that all my hard work was for nought!
I spent ages removing the head liner so that I now have all 4 roof outlets doing different things, one powers the RTT outlets, one powers the camp lighting in the awning, one is now a 30V supply to the Starlink and one is PV going back in to the Bluetti charger 2. It's taken a while to get it all setup and now my grand plan of using starling data to run Gaia gps while viewing on the centre screen seems impossible.
I like the idea of a wired ethernet connection to the phone but i'd need another wire from the roof and after just putting it all back together I really don't want to have to do that.

So is there a way I can get a wifi dongle that will receive from the starling and then output a wired connection to the phone?
Or buy a cheap android phone and run maps off that through the wired android auto connection while connecting the phone to Starlink? It does seem that if you go into settings on the head unit and disable the wifi hotspot then the USB connection for AA appears on the screen, see photo. sadly no wired car play option...

Can anyone confirm that wired AA works while using starlink wifi on the phone?
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An update:
I bought a travel router with a repeater function, I eventually got it to connect to the starlink and the iPhone connected via the lan using a rj45 to USBC cable. But for some reason some data doesn't update to the head unit, including Gaia GPS.. So I'm just going to send it back. I'll download the next days maps to my phone via starlink and operate that way. Hopefully that works...
 
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