Torque Pro, tablets and OBD2 adapters, oh my
Staging Lane
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yea, i hear that, still haven't spent the coin on real-dash as you suggested previous. may be my next step. my concern is seeing the pids though. was realdash easier to find pids or did it search and auto locate any more or less than torque did in your experience JoeNova?
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yea, i hear that, still haven't spent the coin on real-dash as you suggested previous. may be my next step. my concern is seeing the pids though. was realdash easier to find pids or did it search and auto locate any more or less than torque did in your experience JoeNova?
http://www.realdash.net/manuals/targetid.php
Oil pressure, trans temp, and gear are on there.
Here are the instructions for setting them up. A little confusing at first. After 10 minutes of changing numbers you'll understand it.
http://realdash.net/manuals/customiz...unications.php
Also, where you are getting that RealDash costs $85? You can use it for free if you don't mind an advertisement popping up when you connect your vehicle.
Staging Lane
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From: FL
whattttt. last i searched it showed it was like $85. or maybe that was the other setup i was looking at...idk its a blur at this point with all the crap ive researched between building the truck, tuning it, now dash stuff lol. thanks Joe, ill download it tonight and see what she shows. issue i forsee is supposedly the torque app can see those PIDS too but its not working on mine. guess well see.
Staging Lane
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From: FL
yea i just don't want to run my mpvi constantly zip tied under the dash and then I'm limited to only tuning one vehicle at a time or having multiple devices. id rather a specific dash setup. realdash has been decent thus far. taking a bit to learn it and still haven't had luck changing the gauges around how i like, but found a premade layout i can live with lol
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So you have that Lenovo hard mounted in your car? You have any pics? How are you controlling the power?
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But if you never cared about the keyboard folding out...you could play with all sorts of open source stuff for gauges plus change the booting setup for the PC so it loads all that stuff up automatically. I think you can even get in there and set it up to turn on when the charger senses power and turn off 2min after it get charger power cut.
I have a kenwood stereo in my Yukon that has nearly every gauge functional too. I mean like MAF, IAT, ECT, speed, rpm, etc...there were at least 50 things in there. Thing is touch screen too and it ran off the OBD data wire with a maestro kit. The radio idea for gauges is what ive really been toying with for it because it's two birds with one stone since it still has the factory AM radio installed lol. It had everything for gauges and multiple layouts you could swap back and forth between. I called Maestro and they said you just have to have the two class 2 serial data wires. Pin 58&59 on blue connector. Pin 59 is not ran in most swaps i dont think, its not needed for flashing.
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Staging Lane
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letsturbosomething, your correct on the powering on and off as well as startup for apps. I'm doing this currently via tasker app on a android tablet. we discussed this a page or so back. also maestro is right on the data lines. my P59 ecu has two, most swap wiring stuff says to delete the second wire but no reason as too why. so when building mine for giggles, i wired it in with power and ground to a additional obd2 plug and mounted it under the lip of the fender underhood. i now have two obd2 ports i can read, flash, etc from either. pretty handy actually. have my obd2 Bluetooth dongle on the underhood one out of my way, and hptuners on the underdash one so i can edit and monitor while i set this thing up lol
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Staging Lane
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thanks for the info joe, need to mess with it some more. realdash is much nicer as far as it pops right up and displays the info i need in a already setup format. its seem weird changing gauges but i have yet to go to that link you provided above. gonna check that out later. some of the displays(have the BOSS one up now) seem a little laggy. brand new Bluetooth dongle and all, ill make it through an intersection and 3 gears before the display catches up sometimes. hopefully i can sort it some. and with some more playing around maybe get some additional info added to the display. like some of them are just bar graphs and they are pointless to me without numbers lol
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letsturbosomething, your correct on the powering on and off as well as startup for apps. I'm doing this currently via tasker app on a android tablet. we discussed this a page or so back. also maestro is right on the data lines. my P59 ecu has two, most swap wiring stuff says to delete the second wire but no reason as too why. so when building mine for giggles, i wired it in with power and ground to a additional obd2 plug and mounted it under the lip of the fender underhood. i now have two obd2 ports i can read, flash, etc from either. pretty handy actually. have my obd2 Bluetooth dongle on the underhood one out of my way, and hptuners on the underdash one so i can edit and monitor while i set this thing up lol
This thread got me rustled up to go change my setup since after thinking about it, i dont want my HP unit and computer with the software in the car all the time. Getting it stolen would be...just bad.
I got a kenwood double din head unit with android auto and carplay. You can put the torque app right on it and it will bluetooth to the obd2 bluetooth unit. You can use maestro if you have a CANBUS VCM but I'm gen3 so that won't work. After looking around though I found multiple apps for android that can go directly into the head unit without having your phone or tablet hooked in. Much better long term solution for me.
Staging Lane
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From: FL
i currently am running realdash thanks to Joe, bought a few gauge setups and have altered them all slightly with removal and additional gauges. its a little tedious to setup the gauges i need and some of the pids don't work and i haven't figured out how to add custom or user defined pids yet. but shes getting there. i like how fast realdash boots and loads from start up and the gauges seem to respond decently quick on most setups but some are a bit laggy.
Staging Lane
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From: FL
hey joeNova, did you have any luck getting oil pressure or trans temp to accurately display on realdash? i loaded the one oil pressure pid they have and set limits 0-100, warnings, etc and it just pegs 100 all the time. haven't figured out the loading a custom pid yet
Staging Lane
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yes sir, can view both those pids via Hptuners as well without issue but it wont pull the pid in realdash. didn't know if i had to add custom pid and if so how to do it. saw something about downloading their xml doc and modifying it then re-uploading. looks fun in a high anxiety not gonna work for me kind of way lol
Staging Lane
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From: FL
bumping up this ol girl, anyone ever use the Dash cam app? word on the skreets is it works better than the two options weve discussed already? may give her a try this evening if i get time to download it and hook it up.
