What year is your Mazda? According to the Joycon site it should work with Mazda3 from 2004-2009. See the list towards the bottom of this page for cars that work with the Joycon:
Not quite... in newer Audi's, VW's (I am sure also in SEAT's, Skoda's) and I believe it is also in some Ford's, so I am sure other manufacturers as well. CAN-BUS is the protocol used by all the car's computers to talk to one another.
Sorry for the delay in a reply, the UI is basically an image of an RNS-E that I grabbed from Google. I used Photoshop to clear out everything but the background, I then took a screenshot of the apps on my Nexus, put that onto my laptop and cut the icons I wanted and pasted those onto the RNS-E background. I then used Custom Widgets and Nova launcher to create hotspots so that when I touch one of the apps they open. If you want a copy shoot me a PM and I can email it to you.
See above, it's pretty straightforward. For your daughters tablet, just find a simple background image that she likes and then create your own icons/widgets. For me the hardest piece was learning how to use UCCW, as getting the hotspots/widgets lined up with the text can be awkward.
And if your having trouble with UCCW, desktop visualizer is a great alternative. just make the wallpaper with the apps you want, then put invisible hotspot widgets over top using a transparent .png file and make them launch the corresponding app.
Hi,After getting the Joycon installed, I also went ahead and ended up ordering a DCDC-USB, I had been having various odd issues and it turns out that most of them were a combination of poor power, and poor connections. I created a pigtail to connect to the DCDC-USB that has 2 female USB ports, one of them provides power to the hub, the other to the Nexus. Also running a Jabra Journey to route phone calls through. Charging rate is awesome, my battery typically gets to full during a single drive to work, and remains full all week long. Here is how the Nexus currently sits in the dash:
And here is a launcher I am working on:
It's supposed to mimic the RNS-E, so far it's not quite where I want it to be as I want to use %MTRACK to have a basic text of what song is playing, and not use the current widget. Apart from that though I am pretty happy with it.
Next things to do are to try and program a button on my steering wheel to activate voice search on the Nexus, possibly a back up camera and that's about it really.
PM me your email and I can send over a copy, I am using Nova Launcher and UCCW.
I use one from enfigcarstereo, it's the only one I could find that matched the black plastic perfectly. Everything else was just slightly off and did not look as nice.
I use Google maps as well, tethered to my phone, but with tethered via USB. I used to tether via BT but for some reason cannot get that working on my new phone, the advantage with tethering via USB though is my phone charges while its tethered.
Thanks, and yeah I keep meaning to tidy up the wires, but life gets in the way. Thankfully I don't see them while driving! I still keep toying with the idea of trying to get it working with the voice button on my steering wheel, but as with the wires I just never have the time.Looks cool, but damn a lot of wires
