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gotcha. The main reason why I asked about CarPlay is because I use an iPhone, and don’t know a whole lot about these types of systems. I guess what I could do is load just standard android on it, and connect it to my wifi somehow in my house and load music on it. The main challenge would be the touch screen at this point.
Edit: just learned about CarPlay dongles... Just pop one of those onto the RP3 running android, and it does exactly what I described above.
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Totally missed this earlier - I've spent probably about 200 on this project, but I also killed a pi and eliminated half the converters I needed.. So this could probably be brought down to around 150? 125? - Once I actually have time / motivation to make a serious write up I'll have a better idea.
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Coming back to revisit this cause I have my own solution! (Untested as of now)
A while back my parents bought a little android box, but stopped using it because it was unstable. I'm currently trying to make the machine stable, and load vanilla android onto it. No, this doesn't fix my carplay issue yet, however that should be a breeze. My focus switched as I got an OBD2 reader, and would rather have the info displayed on the dash rather than on my phone. Reason being is my phone is heavy and it's big and blocks the buttons, and it'll kill my battery if I forget to plug it in, and when I get in I want it to just work!
If/when i can get this installed and tested, I'll write something up!
A while back my parents bought a little android box, but stopped using it because it was unstable. I'm currently trying to make the machine stable, and load vanilla android onto it. No, this doesn't fix my carplay issue yet, however that should be a breeze. My focus switched as I got an OBD2 reader, and would rather have the info displayed on the dash rather than on my phone. Reason being is my phone is heavy and it's big and blocks the buttons, and it'll kill my battery if I forget to plug it in, and when I get in I want it to just work!
If/when i can get this installed and tested, I'll write something up!
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Also revisiting this to update with my progress - I've made a PCBA pi hat for the RGBS output of the pi, cleans up the wiring nicely and makes it much more reliable.
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Was actually looking at this thread yesterday, how hard was it to do all this? Do you run the Pi in the glove box?
Been trying to find a simple solid solution to the lack of AUX/BT audio on my car.
Been trying to find a simple solid solution to the lack of AUX/BT audio on my car.
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It was hard to develop, but I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement. It boils down to cutting some wires and running some new wires. Depends on your level of comfort with car electronics I suppose.
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You can make some money selling this as a kit. I'm interested either in a what to buy and do or a kit with instructions to buy. Would really breathe some new life into this car.
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I've detailed a decent amount of what needs to happen to make this work, but I'd be happy to answer questions/share my schematic
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I found an article from 95, a VGA to RGB Sync diagram. I’ll be heading to my electronics store tonight to see if I can pick up some gates, a clean piece of PCB and a couple other odds and ends to try and get the ball rolling... FINALLY!!
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