Custom Touchscreen for controlling Lights, OBDII reading, and more.
#21
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Really appr3ciate it! I'm just using what I do as my job a d what I learned in college, and learning more as I go. It's a whole big learning project for fun. I get to toy around with cutting and shapong acrylic foe the housing.
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vitafortis (01-12-2016)
#23
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You can get a $20 USB Bluetooth adapter from bestbuy. As far as an OBDII reader, if you want to start working on that, you can order one from Amazon. I ordered a $100 one, the OBDLink MX, but you don't need one that expensive if you do want to get one.
What other hardware would you need?
What other hardware would you need?
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Does anyone have any idea on ways to route wires to the inside of the center console? I'm building an acrylic enclosure to hold the Pi, Relay board, backup battery, fuse boxes for the relay board, and other wires as necessary. I'd like to put it inside the center console with a hatch (door w/ hinge) on top so I can easily access everything.
I ask because I've never pulled it apart, and don't want to if I know in advance it won't work.
I ask because I've never pulled it apart, and don't want to if I know in advance it won't work.
#26
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Regardless, yes, you can do this with 16 channel Relay's or 2 16 Channel Relays, you just need to toggle the pin for each light. That's easily configurable in my software via a config file.
As far as being able to control more than 8 lights, I can work on adding more pages if you want to have 8 buttons per page, or it auto resizes to fit 4 buttons per row. However, this causes a problem with showing the words as it's a certain size.
I guess I'll need to write up how to use this software/hardware to match your setup so anyone can use this.
Last edited by vitafortis; 01-15-2016 at 08:53 AM.
#28
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Do you have a screen size you'd like to use? Meaning would it be a tablet, a custom touchscreen, etc. If it's a tablet, it's a mobile app with no UI coming from the Pi.
Speaking of which, I'm going to have to add a headless mode so no screen is required.
#29
I want to use the 7 inch touchscreen that they offer on raspberry pi website. I'd like to talk to you about some things with this system so if you would like to contact me other than on f150 forum that would be awesome
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