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I'm considering a race capture pro but the lack of a display for it (other than tablets/phones) is a tad of a limitation.
What would it take to get a sim racing display (plenty available out there) to work with race capture?

This for instance:
http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/index.php ... cts_id=184

How about one of those home made TFTs?
http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/s ... 795/page-3

With CAN BUS support and output now possible I think this opens up the option of using dash displays that also support CAN. Hopefully brentp can confirm.

Personally I'm going to give a tablet a shot as a display in a few months before deciding on whether I want a full fledged dash display from another vendor. For me $200 for an 8" tablet plus a little bit more for a fabbed mount using a cheap $10 case off amazon as the core is worth trying out before something much more expensive like the stack/aem/motec units (which also would be redundant to the rcpro's datalogging).

JohnJones wrote:I'm considering a race capture pro but the lack of a display for it (other than tablets/phones) is a tad of a limitation.
What would it take to get a sim racing display (plenty available out there) to work with race capture?

This for instance:
http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/index.php ... cts_id=184

How about one of those home made TFTs?
http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/s ... 795/page-3

Some of those home made sim displays look great! Just need one which interfaces to CAN....

Arduino already has a CAN shield, plus display support, just need to put those two together!

Ok, so now I'm curious, with a crazy idea! How about something like this for display?????

http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-2Din-Car-DVD- ... 2548.l4275
Though this one is kind of big and bulky with that multimedia unit sticking out the back.

So we'd need an Android car display without DVD, something like this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2DIN-ANDROID-CA ... SwImRYXqN8

Theoretically, if it runs Android, couldn't we just install the RC App from the Google Play Store and just run it from there???? Or maybe this is basically just the NVIDIA Shield tablet design....

Or at worst find a cheap one which supports screen mirroring and just use it for the robust display instead of actually running the app.

Yup, people have been doing that already with DIN / Double DIN setups. Key is to get a high quality unit that has a robust bluetooth stack - not all are created equally. I have a giant pile of tablets that tell a story, debugging the bluetooth connection.

Let us know how it turns out!

Hmmm, so here's what I've found so far:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Double-2Din-7-C ... 2012689029

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quad-Core-Andro ... 2558445724

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/272541763195

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/282241709054

Is that like what people have been doing already with DIN / Double DIN setups?

Top one seems promising, but more as an educated guess based on latest Android Version and quad core processor.

I pinged another fellow that's tested a similar setup, hopefully we'll see a post by him as well.

I've been running one of these: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/produc ... 0.0.Qq1pup

It works reasonably well. The one gotcha with any of these is bluetooth (if that's how you're connecting to the RCP).

A lot of them will just have a bluetooth chip wired up to the audio system so you can pair your phone, but that BT radio isn't accessible from Android, so you won't be able to pair it with the RCP. The Joying unit I tried was like that. The Carpad actually has two BT radios, one for pairing phones, one for connecting to other devices. As a general rule, if you can make Torque work *with a bluetooth OBD dongle*, you'll be fine. I've often wished I could just use USB and be done with it, but that's not supported (that I can tell) on the Android app.

There's some discussion of these sorts of units here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/androi ... head-units It might be worth searching that forum before spending any money.

Hope this helps,
-Zandr

zandr wrote:...The one gotcha with any of these is bluetooth (if that's how you're connecting to the RCP).

A lot of them will just have a bluetooth chip wired up to the audio system so you can pair your phone, but that BT radio isn't accessible from Android, so you won't be able to pair it with the RCP. ...

Excellent feedback! I asked the eBay sellers, and here was what they said:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272541763195
supports transfer of audio and phonebook

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272558445724
said that since there are so many brands of OBD2 dongle, I better buy the dongle together with the device if I want to use the Torque app....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/282241709054
has no Data Transfer Services just only has the Bluetooth for pairing with mobile and use for Dial, Answer, Stop Call, Music, Phonebook, Call records.

Maybe the better question to ask is does it support screen mirroring? Because then it's just a bigger display which can be permanently mounted.