Android or iPad dash in Subie Conversion? Options

[CptTripps]

::: 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?

[r_towle]

let me know if you find an interface that will do the following.

Accept as input
speed sensor (hall sensor)
EGT sensors (up to 8)
CHT sensors (up to 8)
Tach sensor
And most likely 4-5 more that I cannot recall off the top of my head.

All this would be input
I want output as wireless so either wifi, NFC, or Bluetooth.

rich