I see you also have the UM740. Just wondering what car holder you've used? I had to use a standard goose-neck and replace the rear mount of the screen with a standard phone clip holder.
Otherwise, you might want to use Sygic Drive 7.5 as an alternative. IMHO it compares very closely to Tomtom (with a few more nifty features such as signpost) and it embeds easily with centrafuse and FreeICE without needing screen resize stuff. So far, I tried IGO, Destinator, iGuidance and Tomtom on PC/PNA and I'd say TomTom remains the best. However, you won't find an easy way to get a Windows version of TomTom. Therefore, the second best I recommend (for UK in particular) is Sygic.
True, I also have Sygic in CF, so far the best, offcourse I like more the graphics of Igo, but the future is Sygic drive, they are making A gps Software for in car navigation to cars manufactures.
I reckon you'll face the same problem I have. You'll probably need to make a custom dash enclosure to set the mimo high enough to be useful for satnav. I've received my order for some plaster of paris and fibreglass today. Wish me luck!
Unfortunately not yet. I think it would be really useful to do that since i could get help from others on how to proceed when I hit a wall. I'll try to send some pics asap. However, I'm using a Dell Mini9 laptop for the project, which is why it's making things more complicated. The idea was to have a carpc that could be easily docked to the car and removed and used as a normal laptop otherwise.
how long is bootup time?
Mercury888 9 months ago
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englishbreakfast42 2 years ago
Good Luck!
dino1ware 2 years ago
I see you also have the UM740. Just wondering what car holder you've used? I had to use a standard goose-neck and replace the rear mount of the screen with a standard phone clip holder.
kevinaub 2 years ago
Whell, I make my own holder.
But I will try to make embed in the dashboard.
Regards
dino1ware 2 years ago
nice work.
where can I get plugin igo8 for centrafuse?
TBT2005 2 years ago
There is no plugin for Igo, I just put as external aplication, and resize the screen in sys for 800x455
dino1ware 2 years ago
Otherwise, you might want to use Sygic Drive 7.5 as an alternative. IMHO it compares very closely to Tomtom (with a few more nifty features such as signpost) and it embeds easily with centrafuse and FreeICE without needing screen resize stuff. So far, I tried IGO, Destinator, iGuidance and Tomtom on PC/PNA and I'd say TomTom remains the best. However, you won't find an easy way to get a Windows version of TomTom. Therefore, the second best I recommend (for UK in particular) is Sygic.
kevinaub 2 years ago
True, I also have Sygic in CF, so far the best, offcourse I like more the graphics of Igo, but the future is Sygic drive, they are making A gps Software for in car navigation to cars manufactures.
regards
dino1ware 2 years ago
I reckon you'll face the same problem I have. You'll probably need to make a custom dash enclosure to set the mimo high enough to be useful for satnav. I've received my order for some plaster of paris and fibreglass today. Wish me luck!
kevinaub 2 years ago
Hi Kevin, yep is true!
I´m considering some options.
Do you have a project somewere? digitalcar, mp3car? I wanto to follow your project too.
Thanks and good luck ;)
dino1ware 2 years ago
Unfortunately not yet. I think it would be really useful to do that since i could get help from others on how to proceed when I hit a wall. I'll try to send some pics asap. However, I'm using a Dell Mini9 laptop for the project, which is why it's making things more complicated. The idea was to have a carpc that could be easily docked to the car and removed and used as a normal laptop otherwise.
kevinaub 2 years ago
Major issues faced:
* Most laptops don't have the 'power on AC input' functionality in the bios.
* Cooling. The mini9 is not the best choice for a carpc as it has no fans and in summer the performance can degrade rapidly if not ventilated enough.
* I had to hack the dell power switch to provide two external pins (PSON headers) and link that to an ITPS voltage regulator unit.
* Need to create a custom fibreglass enclosure for the ITPS unit and the laptop so that I can screw it firmly in the boot.
kevinaub 2 years ago