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Recently bought an 2004 mini cooper S which has the built in Sat Nav option.
At 13 years old the Sat Nav is obviously terrible. I've been looking around and got a Bluetooth OBD2 adapter to read ECU data and had it displaying it on my tablet. This is cool but a tablet isn't really ideal in the car.
I've seen a cool option where someone had rigged an android stick into the original sat back screen using some driver adaptor to give a neat factory look. Problem was the adapter driver thing is a few hundred quid and to be fair it's still a pretty old and poor screen.
So then I turned to eBay and found a new LCD HD touchscreen which will fit in the exact same place in stead of the original screen and comes with all the driver motherboard etc to run it from a HDMI input. Brilliant.
Question now is what hardware to run through it. The option seems to be either an android stick, running the torque app for OBD2 data, some form of satnav app, maybe a music app and hook it up to the stereo, and future ideas including reverse cam and various lights. The other option is using a raspberry pi setup. I've never used a raspberry pi but would be perfectly happy having a tinker with it, but would it offer any advantage over an android stick?
Anyone got any experience with either?
Cheers
At 13 years old the Sat Nav is obviously terrible. I've been looking around and got a Bluetooth OBD2 adapter to read ECU data and had it displaying it on my tablet. This is cool but a tablet isn't really ideal in the car.
I've seen a cool option where someone had rigged an android stick into the original sat back screen using some driver adaptor to give a neat factory look. Problem was the adapter driver thing is a few hundred quid and to be fair it's still a pretty old and poor screen.
So then I turned to eBay and found a new LCD HD touchscreen which will fit in the exact same place in stead of the original screen and comes with all the driver motherboard etc to run it from a HDMI input. Brilliant.
Question now is what hardware to run through it. The option seems to be either an android stick, running the torque app for OBD2 data, some form of satnav app, maybe a music app and hook it up to the stereo, and future ideas including reverse cam and various lights. The other option is using a raspberry pi setup. I've never used a raspberry pi but would be perfectly happy having a tinker with it, but would it offer any advantage over an android stick?
Anyone got any experience with either?
Cheers
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