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Android or iPad dash in Subie Conversion? |
CptTripps |
Sep 3 2013, 07:55 AM
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:: Punch and Pie :: Group: Members Posts: 3,584 Joined: 26-December 04 From: Mentor, OH Member No.: 3,342 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
::: Warning...purists may not like this idea :::
Riding around in a friend's Tesla-S this weekend got me thinking. (Dangerous...for sure.) It dawned on me last night that if I'm doing a Subaru conversion with the stock ECU, that I'll have an ODB2 port that I can interface with. So a fully digital dashboard is not only probable...it's highly possible. I probably have a dozen iPads and Android tablets in a drawer at work that I'm not using. Why not make them the gauges and entertainment? Now I realize that screen glare in a 914 will be an issue...especially with the top down, but this could be pretty damn cool. Here are a few screen-shots that I found from different apps. DashCommand looks like it'd be pretty cool installed in the center cluster. On a 7" Android tablet, it would mount in nicely. JDash looks like it'd need a proper computer running Linux to boot up and run it. I could do that with a RaspberryPi and have something set up real quickly. Heck...a couple of different rPi boxes and you'd be in business for a lot of different things. (dashcams, rear-view, etc.) So am I crazy, or could this be cool? Attached image(s) |
BIGKAT_83 |
Sep 3 2013, 08:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,798 Joined: 25-January 03 From: Way down south Bogart,GA Member No.: 194 Region Association: South East States |
Use a shadow dash using megasquirt. It operates with bluetooth.
http://tunerstudio.com/index.php/shadowdashmsmenu Bob |
ericoneal |
Sep 3 2013, 09:03 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 320 Joined: 13-August 12 From: Crestwood, KY Member No.: 14,795 Region Association: South East States |
I am doing this with MSDroid and an old Galaxy Tab 7. It works really well and I can even tune the FI from it or my phone. Also keeps a log and GPS track too.
Cant find a decent way to mount it yet though... Use a shadow dash using megasquirt. It operates with bluetooth. http://tunerstudio.com/index.php/shadowdashmsmenu Bob |
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