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This is cool. You ended up moving away from O'Droid?
I like the trinket vs touchscreen as it's a knob and you can learn to use it without looking. I also like that it's completely hidden and reversible. Apologies upfront but with my hearing, you may have mentioned these but didn't hear them.
I was following the written part but got a little lost. Is this accurate:
1) RPI is loaded with Crankshaft which is an Android Auto emulator and gets it's data from your phone?
I'm a bit confused there, sorry.
3) How'd you clear up the static on the screen?
4) Does Nav (OEM) no longer work while this is plugged in? I noticed you went right to it by pressing Nav.
This is cool. You ended up moving away from O'Droid?
I like the trinket vs touchscreen as it's a knob and you can learn to use it without looking. I also like that it's completely hidden and reversible. Apologies upfront but with my hearing, you may have mentioned these but didn't hear them.
Thanks. My car is under Jaguar extended warranty so I couldn't really take your approach of tapping into the touchscreen. The location is a bit of compromise but easily reversible and hidden were a must. It seems very easy and safe to use though.
I was following the written part but got a little lost. Is this accurate:
1) RPI is loaded with Crankshaft which is an Android Auto emulator and gets it's data from your phone? -
That's exactly right. Crankshaft is an AA head unit emulator. AA head unit is described as a projection of the AA app running on your phone. The RPI does none of the 'work'; GPS, BT, mobile remains on the phone. Only downside of this is lack of voice control and this has to remain on the head unit (by design) so would mean running a separate mic to the RPI to get to work, so I'll probably not bother.
I'm a bit confused there, sorry.
3) How'd you clear up the static on the screen? Moved the RPI to the centre console and powered it from the USB there. Static was only present when powering RPI and GVIF interface from the same outlet in the boot.
4) Does Nav (OEM) no longer work while this is plugged in? I noticed you went right to it by pressing Nav. Correct. I have no use for the OEM Nav with AA available as AA Nav is better in my opinion (real time traffic, online maps etc). I also set the GVIF to skip OEM input on the configuration and set the DIP switches for a single input.
5) How do you revert to OEM? The Escape function? Home button
Very nice indeed. - thanks very much. I really pleased with how it worked out
Last edited by LockNumber25; May 21, 2019 at 03:30 AM.
Android Auto with rotary controller
