Ca-Fi Dashlinq4 Android 4.1.1 Car Stereo - WHOA BABY!

[G-Man]

Has anyone successfully run solostorm on one of these? It looks interesting but i cannot find much information on if/how well it works.

[Codythatsme]

Originally Posted by Foobar

No problems here. What's up?

The RCA is plugged into where its suppose to go, I just can't figure out where to connect the signal wire to. I thought It might have been that brown cable coming out of the back of the heading labelled "Back" so I tied it up and that didn't work, so Im unsure where to connect it to. Any ideas?

[Foobar]

Originally Posted by Codythatsme

The RCA is plugged into where its suppose to go, I just can't figure out where to connect the signal wire to. I thought It might have been that brown cable coming out of the back of the heading labelled "Back" so I tied it up and that didn't work, so Im unsure where to connect it to. Any ideas?

Which wire are you referring to by "signal wire"? Is that on your camera, the head unit, or the car?

If I understand you correctly, you want the Back wire on the head unit to tap into the orange white wire on pin #2 on the 24 pin connector of the car, which produces the reverse signal.

[SVXdc]

Pin #2 on the 28-pin connector. However, his Australian GT 86 may not have a factory wire there (in which case he'd need to tap that signal in the driver's footwell).

[ybotspawn]

Originally Posted by petr

I don't think so.

And why not? Controlling the volume through Python on sl4a is a cake walk, if you're getting speed data from some source you could just hook that in, but w/e

[petr]

Originally Posted by ybotspawn

cake walk

you'll still need some sort of UI, settings screen on the front and service on the back. I don't think that it's easier to do with scripts, than with ordinary app.

[ybotspawn]

Originally Posted by petr

you'll still need some sort of UI, settings screen on the front and service on the back. I don't think that it's easier to do with scripts, than with ordinary app.

I was just thinking essentially a while loop that constantly checks. So just auto start the script at boot and constantly check volume compared to relative speed. No need for a UI, but again not my project. An app just seems overkill for something that could be done with a while loop and maybe a timer in python.

[stugray]

I wonder if this would be a direct install on the Ca-Fi unit:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/...r-a-head-unit/

If it has the "Radio" module in the OS for phone operations, I dont know if it will even boot without a visible SIM card.

[Prog]

Originally Posted by stugray

I wonder if this would be a direct install on the Ca-Fi unit:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/...r-a-head-unit/

If it has the "Radio" module in the OS for phone operations, I dont know if it will even boot without a visible SIM card.

The Android Auto app is the companion app for your phone. It doesn't actually provide Android Auto functionality on a headunit.

You can't even install this on the Dashlinq because the companion app is Lollipop only.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

[mynameis940]

So I rooted my device, now it says Bluetooth module number unknown and Bluetooth won't work :/ the link earlier on in the thread is dead now for the fix.

[stugray]

Originally Posted by Prog

The Android Auto app is the companion app for your phone. It doesn't actually provide Android Auto functionality on a headunit.

You can't even install this on the Dashlinq because the companion app is Lollipop only.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

But this is not an app but a new OS so the fact that the HU has lollipop means nothing.

This OS could be installed on any device that currently runs Android.
My point was that some of the phone specific Andoroid OS images have a dependency on the 'Radio' module in the phone's hardware and if it does not detect a SIM card at boot, the OS will halt and give you an error message. Other Android OSs are configured to NOT need the sim card (like a dumb tablet) and will boot without starting the Radio module.

I guess I could try it on an older tablet (or a phone with the SIM card removed) to see...

[Foobar]

Originally Posted by stugray

But this is not an app but a new OS so the fact that the HU has lollipop means nothing.

This OS could be installed on any device that currently runs Android.
My point was that some of the phone specific Andoroid OS images have a dependency on the 'Radio' module in the phone's hardware and if it does not detect a SIM card at boot, the OS will halt and give you an error message. Other Android OSs are configured to NOT need the sim card (like a dumb tablet) and will boot without starting the Radio module.

I guess I could try it on an older tablet (or a phone with the SIM card removed) to see...

Not sure where you're seeing it as an OS, but the article you linked referenced the App that's listed on the Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ction.gearhead

Is there an OS version of this?

[stugray]

Originally Posted by Foobar

Not sure where you're seeing it as an OS, but the article you linked referenced the App that's listed on the Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ction.gearhead

Is there an OS version of this?

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2014/06/...-car-software/

"Google's Car OS is made to be as simple as possible. It does maps, music, messaging, phone calls"

http://thevarguy.com/ipad-and-androi...-directly-cars

"Google’s (GOOG) next Android Auto operating system will be baked into a car’s software ecosystem rather than relying on a smartphone for activation, positioning the "

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/26/g...rating-system/

"Google developing car-specific Android operating system"


Maybe they are using the term "operating system" in a way that I am unfamiliar with.

[SilverlightPony]

From Wikipedia:
"Android Auto is a telematics standard developed by Google to allow mobile devices running the Android operating system (Lollipop and later) to be operated in automobiles through the dashboard's head unit."

The HU has to be set up to allow it, but it isn't necessarily running Android itself. It's just acting as an interface for stuff that's actually running on your phone.