Has anyone used the above? Apparently it does the same thing as AAWireless

No but I've just ordered one of thier cube 3 minis for use in our Kodiaq. I'm hoping it'll work ok as it seems to get decent reviews

I know of a few peeps using the Ottocast mini in their Superb and they like it.

Very small, easy to use.

29 minutes ago, skomaz said:

No but I've just ordered one of thier cube 3 minis for use in our Kodiaq. I'm hoping it'll work ok as it seems to get decent reviews

I had awful problems with AAWireless Two in my 2021 Superb and ordered a cube mini about 3 or 4 weeks ago. Tracking shows it arrived yo a local courier this morning so hopefully have it soon.

Coincidentally I got a new phone since ordering and the new one has pretty much worked flawless with AAWireless lol. Sods law

Edited 12 December, 202512 Dec by Guil

21 minutes ago, Guil said:

I had awful problems with AAWireless Two in my 2021 Superb and ordered a cube mini about 3 or 4 weeks ago

Does your car not have wireless AA built-in? I thought all IV's had the MIB3 unit.

I might try the Otto mini out in our Leon. It has had the original AAWireless since its early crowd-funding days but it's starting to play up a bit. The issue with them is the cable the majority of the time so no cable would be great. Just not sure it will fit as I can't find a picture of the Otto's USB-A orientation, there's not much room above the USB socket in the Leon.

They're on Amazon too
https://www.amazon.co.uk/OTTOCAST-Upgraded-Wireless-CarPlay-Auto-Connect-Black/dp/B0FQN2VBT7/

Edited 12 December, 202512 Dec by Dave77

15 minutes ago, Dave77 said:

Does your car not have wireless AA built-in? I thought all IV's had the MIB3 unit.

I might try the Otto mini out in our Leon. It has had the original AAWireless since its early crowd-funding days but it's starting to play up a bit. The issue with them is the cable the majority of the time so no cable would be great. Just not sure it will fit as I can't find a picture of the Otto's USB-A orientation, there's not much room above the USB socket in the Leon.

They're on Amazon too
https://www.amazon.co.uk/OTTOCAST-Upgraded-Wireless-CarPlay-Auto-Connect-Black/dp/B0FQN2VBT7/

No AA wireless but Carplay will work wireless. AA needs a wired connection

10 hours ago, Guil said:

No AA wireless but Carplay will work wireless. AA needs a wired connection

Early MIB3 units could only do wireless CarPlay and wired Android Auto.

MiB3 unit since then can do wireless BOTH CarPlay and Android Auto.

MIB2 and MIB2.5 units can never do wireless - hence they need dongles like AAWireless or OttoCast.

Tbh my wireless CarPlay on MIB3 is flakey so I tend to plug it in under the armrest so it doesn’t keep connecting and disconnecting.

That might be dependent on the last letter of the Hardware part number as I’m sure I’ve seen various within the MIB3 family

Wireless AA in my MIB3 has been great. I have the Ottocast arriving on Monday/Tuesday from Amazon so will see how it performs in our Leon.

Got mine today. Here's the Engish instructions in case, like me, you don't get them in the box

https://manuals.plus/m/e88807f6e06c617162b4e732dcff26cf885bd9d2e3ca3397118bc838e1b845cd

I bought a similar mini cube dongel from Ali express for under £15 as my AA one tooks it time to connect. So far its been great and provides the same functionality, I did look at the Ottocast mini but it was 3x the cost of the Ali one!

I received mine yesterday and so far im pretty pleased. It seems to connect much quicker than AAWireless ever did

That sounds promising then... I'm still waiting for mine to arrive but I know its on its way

I bought it on 22nd November. Shipped from China

I sent the Ottocast back. Random drop outs in calls and slow reconnections, often going back to the initial onscreen prompts. I'm not convinced that the Ottocast creates a WiFi connection to the phone like AAWireless does.

I went with an AAWireless V2, seems much better.

Been using the ottocast mini cube 3 the last couple of weeks and I'm back to using a cable. It just will not connect reliably and goes round in circles trying. It also won't switch phones easily so it's proving more trouble than it's worth. When it does eventually connect it works fine but that seems to be about 5 to 10 percent of the time.

By the looks of things there's an issue connecting our Motorola phone as the Kodiaqs bolero seems to recognise it. Either that or there's a conflict with my smart watch which also uses Bluetooth which the ottocast does initially before connecting wirelessly. At one stage it thought I had an apple phone which makes me think it's not going to work for the combination we have.

I'll probably be sending it back

Edit: having thought and looked at this some more I 'think' the set up seems to be getting it's knickers in a twist over android and apple connections, as someone else mentioned that the ottocast is primarily a car play device that runs android auto within an internal app. If so that could explain a lot and why the other day it was trying to connect as carolay and wouldn't even give me the option of android auto...

Edited 3 January3 Jan by skomaz

On 03/01/2026 at 23:11, skomaz said:

Been using the ottocast mini cube 3 the last couple of weeks and I'm back to using a cable. It just will not connect reliably and goes round in circles trying. It also won't switch phones easily so it's proving more trouble than it's worth. When it does eventually connect it works fine but that seems to be about 5 to 10 percent of the time.

By the looks of things there's an issue connecting our Motorola phone as the Kodiaqs bolero seems to recognise it. Either that or there's a conflict with my smart watch which also uses Bluetooth which the ottocast does initially before connecting wirelessly. At one stage it thought I had an apple phone which makes me think it's not going to work for the combination we have.

I'll probably be sending it back

Edit: having thought and looked at this some more I 'think' the set up seems to be getting it's knickers in a twist over android and apple connections, as someone else mentioned that the ottocast is primarily a car play device that runs android auto within an internal app. If so that could explain a lot and why the other day it was trying to connect as carolay and wouldn't even give me the option of android auto...

Thanks for the feedback.

That's a shame about the Ottocast mini.

I was contemplating, in the future, to "upgrade" to the Ottocast Mini, but given my family r Android users, and our existing AAWireless (Gen 1) have been faultless n haven't miss a beat - I'll leave it as is.

Given my experience I think I'll be ordering an AAWireless Two...

Yeah, the AAWireless 2 has been in our Leon for a couple of weeks now and has been faultless. Whilst the Ottocast is tiny and appealing with no wires, you have to wonder what it's missing being about a tenth the size of the AAWireless unit.

I'm having similar issues with this device. The ebay sale describes the unit as CA525-T2, I think this is an Ottocast Mini Pico. My phone is a Samsung A55, soon to swap to A57.

I suspect an Otto firmware update may help, but following the instructions of connecting the phone to it's wifi network means the phone stops using cellular for Data - so where should the Otto get the firmware from?

Second issue I have is that the USB socket is always on. Therefore the device stays connected with my phone throwing up connecting to Android Auto messages outside the car.

Finally the wired connection for Android Auto sometimes needs two tries to connect. I guess this means a firmware update for my car maybe in order. I will search this forum for a guide but feel free to throw me links if you have them!

Edited 4 April4 Apr by WesBrooks

I got one from AliExpress for £4. Has worked flawlessly since day 1.

6 hours ago, WesBrooks said:

I'm having similar issues with this device. The ebay sale describes the unit as CA525-T2, I think this is an Ottocast Mini Pico. My phone is a Samsung A55, soon to swap to A57.

I suspect an Otto firmware update may help, but following the instructions of connecting the phone to it's wifi network means the phone stops using cellular for Data - so where should the Otto get the firmware from?

Second issue I have is that the USB socket is always on. Therefore the device stays connected with my phone throwing up connecting to Android Auto messages outside the car.

Finally the wired connection for Android Auto sometimes needs two tries to connect. I guess this means a firmware update for my car maybe in order. I will search this forum for a guide but feel free to throw me links if you have them!

I managed to update the ottocast firmware after a bit of a battle but it made no difference at all.

Its now sat back in the box waiting for me to decide what to do with it.

In the meantime I've got an AA wireless2 that works flawlessly for the three phones that use it regularly.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_Evikq5K

This works like a charm, no drops, no lag and price is funny.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EyzcmCo

This is the one I have. Equally no issues and price seems to fluctuate from £4 to £20