RealDash version 2.4.3

General Announcements and updates
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  • 2.4.3 released 14.11.2024

New:

  • Gauge type: Indicator Light.
  • Action: Launch Web Browser.
  • Racetrack: Canada, Strawberry Creek Raceway.
  • Racetracks: Italy; Busca, Castelletto, Modena, Varano de’ Melegari.
  • Android & Windows: Support for USB Cameras.
  • Android: Added Settings->Application->Datalogging export files option.
  • iOS: vLinker MS is now supported.
  • MRD: Manufacturers can share Settings/CAN/OBD2 files with Team members and customers.

Fixes:

  • Copy of Actions and Triggers.
  • Indicator Bar Gauge history mode.
  • Speak Text action respect user units.
  • Speed limits on 'rural and ‘urban’ are now correct.
  • MRD passwords with spaces now work from the app.
  • Fixed ‘Offline login not supported’ error message on first login to MRD.
  • CAN FD frames ‘should’ work now on SocketCAN.

Notes

2.4.3 has been (too) long coming but finally here. Release Highlights:

Android USB camera support

Android version now supports USB cameras. USB cameras are selected in ‘Settings->Application->USB Cameras’ and Video Gauge has USB Camera 1-4 sources available. This seems to work pretty well on at least 3 cameras at the same time, but depending on camera device this may vary. Please note that this is a first release of USB camera support and there may be still some issues that we have been unable to uncover at office environment.

Current limitations on Android USB camera support:

  • USB camera stream cannot be recorded.
  • No sound from USB cameras.

Indicator Light gauge

This is not actually a new gauge type, but a shortcut to create most common indicator lights, like turn signals, check engine light etc. When creating new gauge with this, a popup appears to select indicator image. After that, RealDash creates an normal Image Gauge and sets the parameters for indicator image and colors.

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Great to see 2.4.3 arrive, is there hope for camera recording in future?

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Lets see. This is first and foremost targeted for backup and mirror cameras.

If you want to make dashcam style solution, you can use USB camera and Screen Recording option.

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aaaaa Great!!! Support for USB Cameras.
please give me link if you have course from Aliexpress

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I sent an email a few weeks back, I have a wifi dashcam. It streams over wifi, like a 3 second lag. I can watch it perfectly fine on VLC media player. No audio I believe. It’s using RTSP. I can’t get it to work on RealDash though. Could you guys look into that? I got this camera specifically for the wifi compatibly in hopes to find a solution with RealDash.

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Any USB camera that outputs NV12 frames should work. We do not have resources to test them all.

Just found out that current version crashes when selecting video source if device has no internal cameras. I will push 2.4.3-2 fix soon.

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Some users have successfully used RTSP streams, but with noticeable delay. We just do not have resources to test all cameras.

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Hi, just trying the launch web page, I created a button added the action and specified the URL, however I get the following error?

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ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED usually mean that your browser does not allow http- connection, you must use https instead.

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It works when I open the page in the browser directly, i only see the error when I open the page via RD?

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I believe this is yet one more Android security thingie. Apps are not allowed to launch non-secure URLs, browser can do whatever it likes.

There used to be a workaround:

android - WebView showing ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED although site is HTTPS - Stack Overflow

But nowdays uploading an app to Play Store that allows insecure web is not allowed.

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Is there a specific way to type the URL for RTSP or should I use the same way I type it for VLC? It has never worked for me so far on RealDash.

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Lets try to keep this thread related to 2.4.3 features/issues.

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Made a quick Android and Windows 2.4.3-2 update, as we saw from the logs that lot of users had crashes on USB Permission system. We will keep monitoring the issues. Windows version also has support for USB cameras.

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I installed version 2.4.3-2, but the indicators do not turn on, the system shuts down, I use it on an android tablet.
I tried different indicators, either the indicators I purchased or the free ones, 1 of the 3 paid ones works, there was no problem in the previous version.

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We are investigating.

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We found the problem. This is related to using multiple CPU cores while loading large dashboard files. We will disable the multicore loading and issue an 2.4.3-3 update.

Edit: Ok, 2.4.3-3 is on the way. For those that are interested of more details of the issue:

We needed to integrate libjpeg-turbo into our game engine in order to support USB cameras on Android (MJPEG frames). libjpeg-turbo uses heavy SIMD optimizations for the performance. Unfortunately on some ARM processor architectures, those SIMD optimizations caused a memory corruption. SIMD optimizations for JPEG loading are now disabled until we find the actual reason libjpeg-turbo is behaving this way.

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I am trying to add USB camera to video gauge but can’t figure out how to select it. I have gone into settings/application and selected my USB camera for camera 1. But when I create video gauge I don’t see how to select it as source. Am I missing something?

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In edit mode, select your video gauge, go to:

  • Look’n Feel->Video Gauge->Video Source

… and tap the video source button to change.