mirrorlink displays for digital dash and tuning

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mirrorlink displays for digital dash and tuning

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Picked up a couple Blaupunkt 7" double din stereos with a pair of speakers at Wally World for $50, as they have mirrorlink...

Mirrorlink provides a remote display and touchscreen for Android phones, via USB cable, Bluetooth etc.

Anyone already using it with Shadowdash etc?

Also asking on msextra

havent had time to play with them yet.
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Mirrorlink actually works fine, used it with everything, no issues, although I recommend a higher end stereo.

The cheap blaupunkts are Chinese "licensed" brand-name-only types, sound ok, work ok-ish but really are cheap ass generic chinese stereo with Blaupunkts name stuck on.

Blaupunkt denies they exist.

None of the std double-din radio install kits fit right, and none are provided.
Spend another few $$$ for an actual brand name unit.
Addendum to Newtons first law:
zero vehicles on jackstands, square gets a fresh 090 and 1911, cabby gets a blower.
EZ3.6 Vanagon after that.(mounted, needs everything finished) then Creamsicle.
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Aside from "because you can", why would you want to do this?

Could it be to hear Steppenwolf? :D


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Of course you would have to scale the audio out to the RPM!
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Merry Christmas, Mike!
Glad to see you are still kickin.

The displays are around 7" so a bit bigger than any phone, plus you can jam to Steppenwolf or Queen at the same time.
Digital dashes run in the stupid price range, this makes for a cheap one, if a bit inconvenient.
A better quality stereo might make it work better.
Addendum to Newtons first law:
zero vehicles on jackstands, square gets a fresh 090 and 1911, cabby gets a blower.
EZ3.6 Vanagon after that.(mounted, needs everything finished) then Creamsicle.
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The dash thing is interesting. I just started looking at that sort of thing because my boy is talking about this gauge and that gauge for his bug. I guess you can use a tablet and shadow dash to display cool stuff you created in Tuner Studio. That would be a heck of alot cheaper than actual gauges. I was just up to Wally World this afternoon, they had 3 tablets a hundred bucks or less. My thought, how nice/visible will they actually be as the primary dash due to glare on the screen?
Real gauges look great but cost more than his car is worth.

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That does seem to be a good price for a screen that size. Can't hurt to play with it and see what you think.
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Re: mirrorlink displays for digital dash and tuning

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With the radio setups, you get a more or less automotive grade display that wont die left in the sun in a car.
Comes with a free radio/mp3 player too! (double-DIN radios, displays are 16x9 ratio or close)

Some of them are android as well, and may run shadowdash or such.

I had tunerstudio running on a phone at one point. (Android main OS, with Debian linux installed, (Arm) as TS is Java app.)
It even ran ~OK, and that was on an absolutely ancient HTC Hero. (too small to be really useful)

You can create an absolutely awesome dash in TunerStudio.

Main issue is rugged-ish displays get expensive.
Addendum to Newtons first law:
zero vehicles on jackstands, square gets a fresh 090 and 1911, cabby gets a blower.
EZ3.6 Vanagon after that.(mounted, needs everything finished) then Creamsicle.
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Piledriver , how do you like Shadowdash ?
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I have not used Shadowdash in awhile, seemed to work great as a dash, and the ability to create the dash in tunerstudio allowed a great deal of flexibility... but the lack of ability to tune/fix anything kinda killed it for me.

MSDroid worked well, but development has been on and off, real job/reality getting in the way and such.

There was one more app that I tried, Realdash, that has a lot of promise, had some "pay" features as to customization but is quite capable.

(IIRC) Both Realdash and msdroid have the ability to edit the tune, backup a tune and load a previously saved tune.

I picked up a wifi<>serial adapter, so the connection is fast and solid.

The problem with any of these is once you nail the tune, none of these are needed, it just drives like a modern EFI equipped vehicle.
Addendum to Newtons first law:
zero vehicles on jackstands, square gets a fresh 090 and 1911, cabby gets a blower.
EZ3.6 Vanagon after that.(mounted, needs everything finished) then Creamsicle.
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Piledriver wrote: Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:06 amI picked up a wifi<>serial adapter, so the connection is fast and solid.
I've been researching BT<>serial adapters for my MS2 v3.57 install, but would prefer to use wifi. What wifi<>serial adapter did you use?
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Re: mirrorlink displays for digital dash and tuning

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I used a USConverters adapter, looks like this one but it was purchased many moons ago
https://www.usconverters.com/serial-rs232-wifi-adapter

The blue one second from the top.
The less expensive one might work but it has screw terminals, doesn't plug in.

Tunerstudio supports this out of the box on Linux and Windows, at least.

You can get one that works well off ebay for $6... but it needs a box, connector etc.
Addendum to Newtons first law:
zero vehicles on jackstands, square gets a fresh 090 and 1911, cabby gets a blower.
EZ3.6 Vanagon after that.(mounted, needs everything finished) then Creamsicle.
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