Analog gauges displayed on the Touchscreen

[91C02920]

I so want this when it is ready, if it will be available for our cars!
I just found it on facebook, don't know anything else about it or the company
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[CrashTestDummy]

FINALLY, a use for that screen!!

[greasychevy]

that looks interesting.

[elc32955]

Folks,

I did some quick checking, according to a reliable source this company has had issues with their products and user satisfaction in the past. Be warned.

Eric

[CrashTestDummy]

Thanks for the head's up. It still looks like it's vaporware, so I'll not be doing anything any time soon. Heck, with all the space where the console should be, I can use my odbII monitoring app on a tablet to get most of those gauges. It would be nice to just have it come on at start, and not be something I have to carry to and from the car, and have to secure and hook up, and hope it works every time. That, and it seems that company's web presence is all from face plant, so I do find that a bit off-putting.

[91C02920]

Actually, I was thinking this might be pretty easy to do using the video in and any android device with a video out and Torque, or a Garmin with OBD2 interface and video out.
I don't have either in my car, but in theory it should work pretty easily.

[elc32955]

There's various apps that will do a wireless Bluetooth dump to a smartphone from an OBD-II plugin. I would think that what could work is an old smartphone with one of those apps running, figure out a way to send a streaming video feed from the smartphone to the video screen in the car via one of the video inputs. I've got two Galaxy SII phones that are obsolete that I haven't trashed yet just as an example, the app was running on one of those fine. My program is OBDLink.

There again, that's just my swag on the subject. Readability, update speed, there's a lot of permutations to be reckoned with. I know some smartphones are meant to be docked and will provide video out to a PC....

[91C02920]

There's various apps that will do a wireless Bluetooth dump to a smartphone from an OBD-II plugin. I would think that what could work is an old smartphone with one of those apps running, figure out a way to send a streaming video feed from the smartphone to the video screen in the car via one of the video inputs. I've got two Galaxy SII phones that are obsolete that I haven't trashed yet just as an example, the app was running on one of those fine. My program is OBDLink.

There again, that's just my swag on the subject. Readability, update speed, there's a lot of permutations to be reckoned with. I know some smartphones are meant to be docked and will provide video out to a PC....

The Galaxy SII has hdmi out, you would need to convert it to rca.

Looks like a Tmobile Samsung Vibrant ( SGH-T959 ) can do rca out, tv-out, through the headphone jack with the right cable. The phone seems to be going for about $20 on ebay, cable is probably $4 on amazon. The video out on the rca should just plug into the dvd video in. I've used the app Torque in the past, and liked it for OBD-II on android, I'm sure OBDLink is just as good and would work well.

I'm sure there are other phones that output to rca, the vibrant was just the first one I saw.
And once you do that, you can display whatever on the screen from the phone, including google maps/nav.
Someone has a vid of random stuff from their phone on an alpine head unit- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=997kYrCr5MQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Seems a cheap trick if you already have the dvd inputs on your radio.

[CrashTestDummy]

That's cool. So you'd plug such a device in, start your engine monitoring app, and then throw it in the glove box?

[elc32955]

Seems like this would be rather simple for someone with the right phone and with Chris White programming on their radio as well as the RCA video in to the iQ. For proof of concept, it doesn't have to be an OBD-II dump, it could be anything. Run Blues Brothers from the phone out to the iQ if you want, it's just a video source. If it can display from the phone then you're 99% there. Gene, it COULD be just as simple as what you're saying basically with tossing a phone in the glove box.... but someone has to test. By using a DVD input you'd also get the side benefit of porting your favorite audio in at the same time if you wanted. Any volunteers?

Eric

Oh, one other note.... This would also work probably in MyLink setups (2014 + up cars) as well, as long as you were commandeering a DVD video line into the box. This is of course assuming your radio's been opened up and the safety inhibits are off for watching video while driving.