Installed Android Auto
 

Just wanted to brag demonstrate what I've done with my G37

I've got android auto running on the stock display with the use of a rasperry pi - I can get more technical if people are interested



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Stock infotainment still works, too!


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yes please elobrate, unless your car has rca inputs, already then no.need. I have an extra pi laying around....

No RCA input, 2011 Sedan with premium package, so I didn't even have aux audio input when I started this all.

Spliced RGBS signals from display in to 4 point relay, using the snow mode switch to activate - relay toggles between stock signals and external, which I've routed to glovebox.
I have a power circuit from here to power the pi (and to safely shut down the pi).

Also put steering wheel switch signal A on a relay, which splits between stock and a teensy microcontroller (so that I can have steering wheel controls in Android Auto).

Took apart the display to remove the stock plastic overlay, replaced it with a resistive touchscreen overlay which feeds back to the Pi

Installed a GROM BT unit, which is plugged in to a usb soundcard on the pi.

Pi is wearing a VGA666 Hat, which can be configured to output a 15kHz RGB signal - Horizontal and Vertical sync are routed in to a custom Sync combining circuit. Pi is running a custom fork of OpenAuto (just so that I can make it more G37 themed). I was running a HDMI->VGA adapter through a GBS-8100 before, which worked but had serious drawbacks.

I'm working out the last of the kinks still - colors are slightly too bright, enough to bother me - I'm going to install some trimpots in to the RGB signals so I can tune them a little.

Can go in to more detail on any of the above - I'm just not very good at making general writeups, so any specific questions are welcomed.

we are gonna need a real tutorial with pics, thanks lol

And to think, modern day q50's don't even come with android auto yet!@#

To the op, did you damage any of the plastics/console pieces in the process or R&R?

Are you making this up or are you a super-villain taking time off your destroy the world plan to work on your car?

Hah.. I'll see if I can find the time to disassemble it enough to take some good pictures

I should point out that this is a 2011 non-nav - my method will only work with the non-nav, but I know there are ways to do it with the nav versions (which would be easier I think)
Didn't damage anything outside of a few scratches from not taking as much care as I should have. As long as you're careful snipping/stripping your harness wires you should be fine.

I can take some videos later if authenticity is being questioned - For my next mod I should install rocket launchers.

What's your approx cost of project?
Can you elaborate on fitting in the touchscreen?

Definitely post a video of how it works :D

I have an 09 with RCA input so it should be easier, but still curious about how well your added touchscreen works.

This is amazing! Anyone know if this method would also allow me to use Apple Carplay? I understand I'll need different software but NBD. '09, non-nav with Bose audio

If you take the screen out of the car, you can dismantle it to the point where the raw circuit board is exposed - if you get to this point, you can pry the stock plastic screen cover from the adhesive, and put on a touchscreen overlay. I'm using this one, maybe in the future I can find a nice capacitive one. Reassembly of the screen follows as normal, you just now have a little touchscreen overlay ribbon cable coming out of the screen as well. I can try to photo this when I get decent photos of the rest of the setup.
RCA input would certainly make this easier.

As far as I know there's no reverse engineered carplay solution, which is what openauto is for android auto. Apple is definitely much more restrictive in that sense.

With an android phone and android auto, for sure - For anything else.. maybe? I mean what I've done is hooked up a tiny computer to my car, what you do with the computer is up to you, I'm just using it for Android Auto - if you wrote software for the spotify stuff that could work too.

I really wish there was a nice open source solution for CarPlay - fundamentally it's the same technology as android auto, just locked in the apple closed garden.
The Pi3 runs android pretty decently - but I'm not sure you could get it to output to the RGB screen correctly running android - perhaps through RCA? Touchscreen would work fine if you install an overlay - the touchscreen drive I'm using has multiple modes, one of which is a "mouse" mode which should be near universal.