Palm Pre Mode Swticher Car Bluetooth and Touchstone

Here is a little personal project that I have been working on for the past month or so.

Basically, my Palm Pre comes with Stereo Bluetooth to listen to music wirelessly on music peripherals like headphones and stereos. You can also buy something called a "Touchstone" for it which is a magnetic inductive charger. What this means is that you can charge the Pre without even plugging any cables into it, it does it through induction.

So, these Touchstones only come for your desk, but I modded it to work in my car with a Sprint MicroUSB car charger and by sawing off and epoxying it to a universal GPS vent mount. This way I can use the Turn-by-Turn Navigation app and Google Maps on my Pre like a GPS car unit.

Then, I purchased a Sony Xplod Bluetooth Car Stereo, so that my Pre could wirelessly play music through the car stereo.

The pièce de résistance is this developer app called Mode Switcher, that lets you define different events on your Palm Pre. Its a lot like Automator for Mac OSX.

So, I programmed within Mode Switcher that upon the Pre being docked onto my Touchstone AND connecting to the Sony Xplod via Bluetooth (I have a Touchstone on my desk at home and don't want these events happening then too, only when I am in my car) that a couple events happen:

-The Pre's CPU overclocks to 800mhz (this is because it gets a bit sluggish when I am using Google Maps, Turn-by-Turn Navigation and the music app together with bluetooth stereo)

-The screens brightness maximizes to 100% for good visibility

-The Music app on my Pre automatically opens and starts off where I left off listening to music.

So this way, all I have to do is put my phone on the docking car charger I built and voila, my music magically starts again through my car speakers.

When I take the phone off the car charger, it then stops the music and closes the music app, and puts everything back to the normal brightness and settings I want for my phone in daily use.

Also: when connected to the Bluetooth Car Stereo, I can answer calls through my car stereo, and it mutes and pauses the music when I am chatting, starting the music up again from where I left off when I end the call...

Pretty coool....

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Palm
• Pre
• Mode
• Swticher
• Car
• Bluetooth
• Touchstone
• mod
• electronics

[blakec33]

What happens when a call comes in? Do you hear their voice through the stereo?

[robmausser]

@blakec33 yeah the voice is through the stereo, and the stereo head has a nice loud microphone in it.

[smithness20]

That is sick dude. Very well done. I am looking todo the same touchstone dock in my car along with a bluetooth stereo. Do all stereos with bluetooth allow you to play music?

[robmausser]

@smithness20 It should be Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, thats how you know its for music.

[Editor02Channel]

How did you get mode switcher to respond to the touchstone dock? I haven't seen that setting...

[Editor02Channel]

@hamnio its music player remix, and can be found from the homebrew library at Precentral. The full version only works on webOS 2.0 now.

[hamnio]

What music player is that? Is that NaNplayer or Music Player (Remix)? And where do I download it for my Palm Pixi?

[spazyou]

awesome...

[gitit20]

Nice