I have performed a installation of realdash in my car using a windows 10pc HDMI stick connected to a display. My question is, what is being used by other members or what is the best approach. Currently it takes 1 min for my system to boot up Everytime cause windows has to start and launch the program and I have stripped windows 10 all that I can.
I’d like to hear what realdash uses for their installations or what other users are using. I don’t have the room to run a tablet, and I am running a custom narrow 12.3" screen.
I have however (and others failed to mention it) hit a HUGE problem, at least in my opinion, in that the VIM 3 does not currently support any USB GPS Devices. Given how much RealDash uses GPS that’s a massive issue.
The cold boot will take quite some time on any system. In almost every project we end up making the system in a way that the computer is never really shut down completely. Instead we wire the systems that we can sleep or hibernate the system when ignition is cut off to quickly restore it when ignition is turned back on.
As for the GPS, give a try to a 10hz Bluetooth GPS module. They work great.
Just bumping the thread, I would like to know the tricks for sending a signal to put it into sleep or hibernate. I’m assuming this is easier with the Android system.
We use Android or Linux for custom projects. For Android we build a rooted custom image from the source code to match the hardware and modify the source code on parts. Building your own Android is very complex topic and we just do not have resources to help on such project.
is it possible to get a build for Linux for testing? i would like to test realdash + u-boot.
the fact is that Android is not very good for a serious project that I am trying to implement … absolutely all android boards have problems with energy saving and falling asleep / waking up. this is the main problem for which I just can’t start selling my dashboards.
the only correct solution is u-boot. everything else is extremely unreliable and capricious.
We are working on something that would allow you to register full version outside of the stores and then we could distribute Linux, Windows and Android versions without any Google/store linkage. Unfortunately I cannot say when this would be complete, or any other details as of now.
I don’t think this is issue, I have 9 inch head unit with 1024 x 600 resolution and it’s fine.
Hero some pics, first is taken with phone, second is a screenshots from device and link to video (video don’t make justice in real live looks fine)
We hope many RealDashers are, but unfortunately I cannot give any more information at this point. Reason is that our development resources are very limited and things happen, so it may take a long time (or never) to complete.
I got mine today with 8.8 inch screen. Device seems to have plenty of processing power to run RealDash. I did notice one problem though. The text quality on RealDash is very poor for some reason. Will investigate that.
I been using a Joying 7" headunit . Just over a year now on speeduino. Connection was with USB to UART cable connected to USB OTG port. And works great. Picture quality during daylight is not an issue.
