Double DIN or Carputer?
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Double DIN or Carputer? I really like the idea of having a touch screen interface in my car, but I don't know if one way is better than the other. I also want to hook up my underbody light kit to the touch screen so I could turn it on through that. I don't know if that would be possible with either of these, but if anyone has some insight, I would appreciate it. 
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ok, if i go with a carputer, is there a way for me to still use my steering wheel controls? What about fm radio and power antenna capabilities? How can I power my tweeters since I won't have a HU now?
Last edited by kjcmusic17; Nov 11, 2010 at 09:41 PM.
Ok, first off, your gonna need to do ALOT of research since your gonna be in a little over your head apparently on the carputer. It WILL get a little overwhelming, BUT you can infact control the lights. Get a doubledin carputer setup from someone like Bybyte, perhaps with the optional amp built in. As for the lights, use a Fusion Brain. It'll control anything you want it to. You just have to make a plugin for your frontend for whatever you want it to do. Not too hard.
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Some double DIN head units such as the Kenwood DNX-71xx series provide additional touch screen switch controls. On the Kenwood, you can program the two additional touch screen control switches to be either momentary (for something like a garage door opener) or on/off (for something like lights). Certainly it would be easier to integrate as an audio system and you can keep your steering wheel controls.
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Some double DIN head units such as the Kenwood DNX-71xx series provide additional touch screen switch controls. On the Kenwood, you can program the two additional touch screen control switches to be either momentary (for something like a garage door opener) or on/off (for something like lights). Certainly it would be easier to integrate as an audio system and you can keep your steering wheel controls.
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Ok, first off, your gonna need to do ALOT of research since your gonna be in a little over your head apparently on the carputer. It WILL get a little overwhelming, BUT you can infact control the lights. Get a doubledin carputer setup from someone like Bybyte, perhaps with the optional amp built in. As for the lights, use a Fusion Brain. It'll control anything you want it to. You just have to make a plugin for your frontend for whatever you want it to do. Not too hard.
How would the steering wheel controls work still? The most I've seen with that, is someone who kept the HU in and put it behind the carputer screen, but the it only gave him was volume control, not seek control.
Well what your gonna have to do as far as keeping the radio is get a USB FM antenna and use that, but you can program them using a peripheral device (can't think of the name off the top of my head).
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