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Raspberry Pi!! - Dan_Turism0 - 21-01-2020
what about integrating sat-nav into it?
Raspberry Pi!! - DaveEdin - 21-01-2020
Sparkystav Centrafuse is a full front end for a car pc Dave
Plays songs/films etc, but also has outputs and other aux things.
Presumably though it runs from Windows, as opposed to running as an operating system itself?
The thing is, you can pretty much tailor a Linux install for whatever you need software wise. There are variations for education, media, scientific versions. I don't imagine it'd be all that much more work to create a respin that was designed to work with car data, it'd just depend on the software being available/ported to Linux (say Torque or centrafuse)... Tricky bit would be making sure the software could run fluidly on the hardware...
Raspberry Pi!! - el_bandido - 21-01-2020
DaveEdin Presumably though it runs from Windows, as opposed to running as an operating system itself?
The thing is, you can pretty much tailor a Linux install for whatever you need software wise. There are variations for education, media, scientific versions. I don't imagine it'd be all that much more work to create a respin that was designed to work with car data, it'd just depend on the software being available/ported to Linux (say Torque or centrafuse)... Tricky bit would be making sure the software could run fluidly on the hardware...
torque already works on android, you could stick a USB gps dongle in and have it running your satnav through android as well.
You'd need to recompile everything in ARM architecture even if you did port it to linux, which is the main issue.
Raspberry Pi!! - DaveEdin - 21-01-2020
el_bandido torque already works on android, you could stick a USB gps dongle in and have it running your satnav through android as well.
You'd need to recompile everything in ARM architecture even if you did port it to linux, which is the main issue.
Heh I know Torque works on Android, given I use it :lol: :p I don't imagine porting it would take that much, given Android is a variant of Linux in any case. As you say it'd be the architecture that could cause issues - it might not be enough to support the communication between the car and the PC at the transfer rates required to make the data real time... Think it'll be a bit of a wait and see tbh...
Raspberry Pi!! - el_bandido - 21-01-2020
Also, the pi will have trouble running the later versions of android smoothly, so you'd be looking at 2.2 or something similar to get a usable system. The boot time will also still be in the 30 second ball park.
I've spent quite some time looking at this as a car computer, I really think a more powerful X86 computer is a better option.
Raspberry Pi!! - DaveEdin - 21-01-2020
el_bandido Also, the pi will have trouble running the later versions of android smoothly, so you'd be looking at 2.2 or something similar to get a usable system. The boot time will also still be in the 30 second ball park.
I've spent quite some time looking at this as a car computer, I really think a more powerful X86 computer is a better option.
Agreed, I think a better option would be an x86 based system, but of course you're not getting one of those for about 20-30 quid... The Linux system installed on it as standard has been cut down pretty sharply to make it stay usable with the resource limitations.
I still think we might see something from this in terms of a half decent car PC, but there are a lot of challenges to overcome...
Raspberry Pi!! - el_bandido - 21-01-2020
the only way this is going to be viable is with an android image I think, plenty of available software for cars on there. It's usable in the car and designed around touch interfaces, I'd say that would be the best bet.
Raspberry Pi!! - reganlives - 21-01-2020
i knew it would be difficult but i've only just started looking into this and didnt realise this would be so much work. Dont know if i'll go ahead with it if I get it now as sounds like it may be a bit of a headache to get it set up right
Raspberry Pi!! - el_bandido - 21-01-2020
you can't go wrong for £25. Worst case scenario is you attach it to your television for use as a media box
Raspberry Pi!! - reganlives - 21-01-2020
ooh! I never thought of that! Now that would be one neat media player lol. How would it be powered though from the mains? I guess a blackberry style adapter/charger will work as it takes micro usb