"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
11/04/2014 at 12:12 • Filed to: digital dashboard, android, how to, torque, tasker
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"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
11/04/2014 at 12:12 • Filed to: digital dashboard, android, how to, torque, tasker | 1
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If you're anything like me you're a complete technophile with a ridiculous amount of old hardware lying around unused. Also if you're like me, you have an enormous want for all the car telemetry you can get your grubby paws on.
Here's what you'll need :
1. An Android phone. Doesn't even have to be that powerful.
2. Charging cable
3. Some way to hook it into your car's speakers (if you don't want jammin' tunes, ignore this)
4. Torque Pro
5. PowerAMP (optional, again, jammin' tunes)
6. Tasker
7. A Bluetooth OBDII adaptor (I used a cheap "slim" ELM unit from Amazon for $10)
8. Some sort of car mount (or copious amounts of hot glue and duct tape)
The process
1. Find a decent place to mount your phone. Depending on what telemetry you want, it's probably best to put it somewhere you can still see the road in your periphery if you (don't do this) insist on staring at your boost gauge while driving.
2. Plug in the OBD2 adaptor. These will draw current from your battery even while the car is off, but if this is your daily driver the voltage loss on your battery overnight is next to nothing.
3. Pair the adaptor with your phone. Generally the PIN is 1234, 1111, or 0000.
4. Install Torque, Tasker, and PowerAMP. I suggest also installing a configurable launcher such as Apex or Nova launcher to make things simpler.
5. Open Torque and set up a profile for your car. Set the Bluetooth adaptor mode to "Fast communications" and ensure that it is connecting to the reader.
6. Configure Torque to go to the dashboard (gauges) view by default
7. Go to the dashboard, enter edit mode, and plop down some gauges. Here's how mine is set up:
For some reason the dumbass camera didn't rotate the picture, but what we have is a tachometer with a nested speedo (just like a Koenigsegg!), timing advance, fuel open/closed loop status, and an accelerometer. I might do intake temperature in the far lower-left and fuel usage rate (in gal/hour) in the lower-right, but this is what I have for now.
8. Verify that all your gauges are working.
9. Once you're done hooning, open up Tasker.
10. Tasker can instruct the phone to execute commands based on situations and input. Here's how I have it configured:
When charging (car turns on and 12v switched power goes on):
Turn brightness to max, enable Bluetooth, disable screen timeout, set volume to 80%, wait 5 seconds, open Torque, simulate hitting the "play" button.
When no power (car turns off and 12v switched power goes off):
Pause music, go to home screen, wait 20 seconds then enter airplane mode, kill Torque, set screen brightness to 20% and timeout to 5 seconds.
11. Check and make sure all the Tasker rules are working properly
12. Mount the phone in place and hook it up to switched power and the car stereo
13. Configure your home screen. I have mine set up with one page, a large powerAMP widget, and then Torque and PowerAMP icons at the bottom. All I have to do to change songs is hit the home button and I'm presented with the powerAMP widget, then I tap Torque to go back to my dashboard. Pretty usable, and quick as well.
Sorry for the poor writing. I'm kinda tired.
adamftw
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/04/2014 at 12:18 |
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Thats an awesome idea with Tasker. I have an older LG I would totally do this with... But my truck is OBDI. Oh well, emissions-exempt engine swaps in my dreams yay!
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> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/04/2014 at 13:19 |
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I will be doing this as soon as I get my new phone. LAnd Rover telemetry for everyone!!!!