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My carrier MetroPCS (which doesn't have great rural coverage) and I believe other carriers such as T-Mobile offer free, unlimited streaming on certain music apps. I use Google Play Music almost incessantly and it doesn't count towards my data. Depending on where you're located and where the coverage maps are you might check out these kinds of plans.

/u/Tired8281 makes a good point as well. A simple, cheap PC with a touch screen mounted on your dash would make a great distribution system. Put the main OS on a flash drive or SSD and either mount your storage disks with shock proof bushings or suspend them with pantyhose or some form of stretchy fabric. I had a buddy who shoved his main drive (pre SSD days) in a length of hose and suspended it like a hammock in his vehicle PC case. Thing ran for ages.

Let me think this through; If I put a voltage regulator on the output side of my charge controller, I could set it to deliver 12V to the car charger when my charge controller is delivering 9V to it. Then when my panel is producing 12V, that means (about) 15V to the car charger. Most cars are north of 14.5V anyway with the motor running, so that seems ok. The car charger does the handshake, making the camera happy, presumably handling its own voltage reduction to provide the qualcomm approved levels.

I pay an efficiency penalty, but my panel theoretically makes double the wattage I need, so I have some capacity to work with.

That might work. I’d be in $14 for the charger and $8 for the voltage regulator
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F835TCJ looks promising as a charger.

OP, this is the correct answer. Everyone else is saying a router but those do other things, not just sharing the wired connection over wifi. The most popular access point over in /r/homenetworking is the Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC Lite.

TP-link mr3020. Amazon link.

Buy several of These and mount them all on a piece of pipe?

Or maybe install three rows of wall shelving.

No, the first one won't work. That converts a regular PATA drive to PATA ZIF, but you need PATA ZIF in the first place. The SSDs in the second link are the right idea, but they are insanely expensive. If it were me, I'd get this, this, and this. Yes, it's 1.8" and no 2.5" drives will work, ZIF is an unusual plug on hard drives and it's only really found on 1.8" drives.

It's just on the edge of possible to make something in that price range, but you'd need to DIY. I don't think you'll find it off-the-shelf at that price.

For example, this is more than 10x your price. This is 2x your price, but much smaller.

Prices are constantly falling, of course, so if you wait long enough, someone will make it.

I don't see why that wouldn't work, though that's so short, I'd go for one like this. I really don't know if there is any danger of either the PC or the phone damaging the other if both are producing sound at the same time, though.

An alternative may be as follows. Assuming the audio cable is permanent on your speakers, you could just get this and plug it into your pc, then tape or zip tie the female end to your desk where you can reach and swap the speaker cable more easily. Does that make sense?

Hi! I wanted something similar but i quickly realized i don't know anything about wires, so i bought a switchbot and i control it from a raspberry pi that's running home assistant. Not the smartest solution, but it works!