2din radios or monitors you can find on ebay . I use a raspberry model b so I don't know how good it runs in a model a

 

What are you guys using to communicate with the pi in your car? Touch screen?

 

I have a normal 7 inch non touch screen . And a keyboard to switch 1-4 . For precticality I will change the keyboard to a number pad when I find something suitable

 

I have found this plug & play, do you think he can work? (juste add the FC Hako to connect with PFC ECU?) : 2Din in Dash 7" Samsung HDMI Touch Screen Monitor Mini ITX USB SD Raspberry Pi | eBay

Markus, do you think it is possible to add two functions to your program:
One that also will interpret gauges with analog signal? And if there was the possibility to install an alarm configurable on each gauge?

I will make a donation current next week to support the project!

 

You can configure a visual alarm on each gauge with the gauge designer already ( like a red ring for instance ) I am planning to add support for the analogue inputs soon , just have little time to work on it at the moment

As for the monitor , yes it will work when you connect it to a pi and then to the cable

 

Any luck on the image for the raspberry yet? I successfully got it set up and running on my FD. I have the analogue signal feeding into the reverse camera input on my head-unit. I use a switch in one of the spare slots on the centre console to change over to the virtual gauges without affecting the music playing. The resolution of my screen is poor so i may make a custom gauge layout to suit. Congratulations on your work so far. Jamie

 

Hi Jamie

Thanks for your feedback . I have a image , buy the problem is it's a raw image from my 16 gb card lol , and my monthly internet is 10GB ( up/download) . The dashboards that I designed are for 1024x728 (which my monitor can handle ) . I think most in dash solutions have 600x480 or so . Would be nice if you mail me any gauges and dashboards you design , so I can add them to the Raspexi source code . I wanted to start to implement the differential sensors AN1-8. But I haven't had time to do that yet ( still need to improve my coding skills lol)
Maybe upload some video of it running on your head unit , quite curious to see this running while driving ( only been able to test stationary so far )

 

Ill do my best Markus, Im not a programmer by any means! I have a TON of work to do on the car for the weekend (big rotary meet in ireland this weekend) but ill see what i can do. how did you build the image?

This is what i did.
I first got it to autologin to linux,
in terminal type "sudo nano /etc/inittab"
scroll down to "1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 tty1"
and change to "#1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 tty1"
under that add "1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f pi tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1"
then press ctrl+x to exit, then Y then enter twice

To get the script to autolaunch
In terminal type "sudo nano ~/.bashrc"
at the bottom add the line "startx /home/pi/raspexi/run.sh"
then press ctrl+x to exit, then Y then enter twice

this will get it to boot the raspberry direct to the gauges with no intervention required provided you followed the install instructions in the readme and if anyone has problems running the script be sure to set it as executable by rightclicking on run.sh then down to properties, then permissions and tick "executable"

 

Have you measured your startup time ? Mine is arround 40 seconds with a class 10 card

 

No i havent but should have it back in the car tomorrow. I have a usb lead and phono for video all wired up and sitting in the glovebox.

 

Seems my programming skills are too little to implement the differential inputs any time soon . So if there are any volunteers with programming skills and time , knock yourself out . If you need adding on google code send me a pm and I add you

 

SonicRat has implemented the inputs AUX1-8 for us . Source code is uploaded . Currently this will display a 0-5V value . I haven't created a gauge yet .As i can't test at the moment , because my car s out for fitting Poly Bushes . The inputs are called AUX1 - AUX8 for use as a data Source for the gauges .

Many thanks to SonicRat for his awesome contributions

 

Have tried it in the car over the weekend and it worked great... at first :-(
After about 10 minutes the screen goes black and the raspberry refuses to boot. im not sure if its a problem with the pi or the cheap 12v usb adapter im using. most likely the second!
Heres a video of it working I have it over on irishrotary too
http://www.irishrotary.com/forum/for...-viewer-in-rx7

 

Wow if you get this nailed down I would love to have it will it work with my pfc and kenwood touch screen stereo

 

As long as your radio has a video input there is no reason why it should not work

 

On a unrelated note ,

can someone maybe mail me the virgin base map for the power fc (the dat file that i can use with FC EDit ) ? I still have the old version base map on my power FC (version 4.11) , and would like to use the newer base map as a starting point .

 

Hello
Im looking at implementing a digital dash powered by Raspbery pi in my R34 skyline.

During my research i found this post Hacking the PowerFC/DataLogIt and i was wondering if anyone had tried using the pi's i2c interface and eliminating the need for a FChacko/datalogit/etc?

 

My previous post was supposed to include this link
RX7Club.com - View Single Post - Hacking the PowerFC/DataLogIt

 

The PowerFC doesn't use I2C, so that wouldn't work.

 

Should you go the route of using a normal Datalogit / Hako or SonicRat's cable , you are more than welcome to incorporate your code into raspexi , would be nice to see it develop into a universal Power FC display software .

Kashima has on his website the basic structure for the returned message when reading out the advanced information as it is Manufacturer specific , should be easy to implement it for Nissan

APEX PowerFC??

All that would be required is to do a init platform command 0xF3 0x02 0x0A
to get the Vehicle string back eg "13B-REW" and then evaluate the message for the Advanced Sensor data according to the read out string .

 

it was long since I had not spent on this post.

Markus, do you think it would be possible to make a compatible version for android or windows 8? (By paying a developer)

I'll see to work the GUI (and see for touch screen)

Many thanks

 

I love this thread

 

Hi Tony , not Shure if android is easy to do , but windows should be possible . The source code which Raspexi was compiled to windows and Linux . Just try the same what I did and post it as a project on Freelancer.com

 

do you think it would be possible for me to request your developer to code for windows? (with some graphical improvements or I could help and the job will pay)

 

Hi Tony , Shure you can use my developer . Just look on freelancer.com and search for Syriant