Gif animation or videos can be inserted into Realdash

General
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Is it possible to insert animation in Gif or video in the realdash panel, which gauge to use?

animation like this

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You can do both I believe with a video guard and image gauge. You’d have to set an action to play it though.

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Yes, that’s exactly what I want to do, but I don’t know how to start. Like when I turn on the car key, the animation appears on the screen. Is there any way to do this? I don’t know if it would be done in the form of a trigger or actions.

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Setings → Application → page 4 → Intro Settings. These are intro images. You can disable theirs and set yours but I believe this is only images not videos.

Lastly If you want a video at startup of vehicle, you can make it play for example when rpm is greater then 0 via a trigger but you might have to make another trigger to make it fade out once the animation is done.

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MP4 videos are supported as Intro elements.

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oh, well thats good to know. Question then. I’ve asked this before but can we adjust intro time then if we use custom images and gif? I once tried using 4 custom images to represetn RD, tuner, and tuning device but it took too long. I’m brining this up again because if theres a set time, would realdash cut an intro mp4 video short? or play the whole video out?

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Currently the time to display intro image is fixed to 4 seconds per image and video items will play until the end before next item is shown.

Let me see what I can do to adjust the time for each intro element. Its quite trivial technically, issue is in UI.

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Oh well that’s fine. I mean technically we can just make our own video of all images combine if it’ll play out the full length of the video. And I can fit them all in a 4 sec mp4

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RealDash-v248-prerel1.apk in testing Dropbox. Changes:

New:

  • New inputs: Body->Rear Defrost Active, Windshield Defrost Active & Instrument Light Dimmer.
  • Custom Intro images have an option to adjust display time.
  • XML enum attribute value ‘_’ (underscore) can be used to discard the value completely.

Fixes:

  • Simulation mode has been restored to simulate input values.
  • Intro now plays mp4 video correctly when an image was on shown previously.
  • Android: x86 32bit build removed from the APK. x86 64bit still remains.
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I’ve already done this, but it wouldn’t be like this at the beginning of the introduction, but rather inside the screen on the panel when turning on the ignition key, activate an action or trigger that makes a gif or video appear on the screen and when turning off the key it disappears.

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Trigger based on key activation input, id use voltage higher the 0. Actions fade in and play gif. Reverse for key off.