Just wanted to show my car install that I've been messing with for some time now. My car install includes a USB DAC, flash drive, webcam, DVB-T for FM stations and a Joycon for steering wheel controls. All of these are connected to 2 USB Hubs that are externally powered.
I have the webcam mounted for my backup cam but am having some problems with it in the daylight so I might ditch it if I can't figure out a solution.
As far as reliability I drove 9 hours back to college with no freezes or hiccups. Since I made my hub externally powered the tablet get enough power to stay fully charged over long trips while using gps and screen brightness on full, but I should not have any problems with it staying charged with Timurs new USBROM that can enable fast charging.
I also have a few hidden buttons in my center console for the 3 tablet buttons and also a charge button to charge the tablet even when the car is off if the battery get low, for example its been below zero for the past week so my battery is probably extremely due to the extreme temperatures. I normally only lose 1-2% over night but since I haven't been driving my car these past couple of days I have lost ~20% in a 24hr period from the -10 degree temperatures we have had, which is when im glad i added a charge button so it can charge while i'm in the store or class or something.
Oh and for GPS and wifi antenna I ended up mounting above the headliner on the passenger side and ran wires to the connectors.
I'm currently using
-Timurs USBROM with kernel built in
Link
-Power Amp
-mediaU to stream local radio stations
-Copilot
-Apex Launcher
-GMD Gesture Control
-Tasker
-Tablet Talk
-SDR Touch
-Probably others that I am forgetting
Videos at the bottom of this post.
If you have any questions feel free to ask!!!
What do you guys think?
Parts List
-$39.00
Joycon EX Steering Wheel Control PC Interface
-$55.00
FiiO E10 USB DAC Headphone Amplifier
-$180.00 A new
Amp and
Speakers to replace my factory bose
-$37.00 64GB
Flash Drive for all my music
-$10.00
OTG Y Charge Cable
-$7.50
One of my USB HUBs
-$27.00
Amp wiring kit
-$10.00
Speaker wire
-$24.00
Digital to Analog Audio Converter
-$10.00
2 DC USB chargers for the HUBs
-$72.00
Trailblazer head unit wiring harness to keep onstar and door chimes
-$34.00
Mini Bluetooth keyboard
-$33.00
DVB-T Tuner
-$10.00
DVB-T Antenna
-$7.50
Another USB HUB
-$15.00
4 USB extensions to make USB HUB externally powered
-$21.00
3 10FT USB extensions
-$13.00
Wire to extend GPS and WIFI antennas
-$5.00
DC 2.1A USB charger
Total = $610
Of course you can do this for much cheaper, since a nice chunk of that went into audio equipment and extra accessories.
4 channel amp
Bracket I made to mount the tablet to. I added a fan to help keep the tablet cool along with some velcro to mount the tablet to my bracket.
Had to add some wires for the power, volume up and down buttons that I ran to the center console in case the tablet freezes or something. Also had to run wires to the back cover since the wifi and gps are basically stickers on the back cover which I just velcroed to the top of the stereo opening.
Mounted
RCA digital to analog converter
USB hub with my flash drive, steering wheel controls, backup cam (still working on) and also my usb DAC which is also in the pic
Poweramp
Movies
Installed
Wire diagram
All of this is mounted in my Trailblazer
