CARPLAY + LAPTOP VIDEO PLAYER
Your patrol car gets a stereo. Your laptop gets a screen worth looking at.
And because the audio runs through the car — not your headphones — everyone
around you is in it with you.
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CARPLAY
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▸ MUSIC IN YOUR CAR
Open it with /carplay from the driver or front passenger seat. Music plays
from the VEHICLE, not your client — audible 20m outside the car, fading
naturally as people walk away. Sit in a sealed cabin and it muffles.
▸ BUILD YOUR OWN PLAYLISTS
Name them, give each one its own cover art, and fill them with as many
tracks as you like. Save single songs too, for the ones that don't belong
anywhere. Set a playlist looping and it runs all shift.
▸ THEY FOLLOW YOU
Playlists are saved to your account, not your PC. Restart, reconnect, come
back next week — your library is exactly where you left it. Nearby officers
see the playlist name you're running, not just the track.
▸ BROADCAST IT OVER THE RADIO
Hold your PTT with music playing and everyone on your channel hears the same
track — seeked to your exact position in it. Not a link, not a restart: they
join you mid-song.
▸ IT SOUNDS LIKE A RADIO, NOT LIKE A SPEAKER
The feed is rendered through the same band-limited chain as Dispatch's voice
before it goes out. It bleeds through like someone keyed up next to their
stereo — and it never shows as a second person on the channel.
▸ THE KNOB IS LIVE
What listeners hear follows your volume dial in real time. Turn it down
mid-transmission and the feed drops with it. Mute, and it goes silent.
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LAPTOP VIDEO PLAYER
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▸ VIDEO ON THE MDT LAPTOP
A browse-and-search grid on the in-car laptop screen. Search, pick, play —
on the real 3D laptop prop, in the car, at a screen you actually look at.
▸ THE SOUND COMES OUT OF THE CAR
The laptop screen physically cannot make a sound — so the video's audio is
handed to CarPlay and plays from the VEHICLE. Officers standing outside hear
what you're watching. It fades with distance, muffles in a sealed cabin,
answers your mute and volume keys, and goes out over the radio like any
other track.
▸ PARKED UP WITH YOUR PARTNER
Two officers on a slow night, one laptop, something playing out of the car
speakers. That's the whole point.
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Both halves come with this one perk. The video player is CarPlay's — it opens
because you have this, and its sound is CarPlay's sound.