What would you expect more from OpenAuto Pro?

[wkl3968]

My wish:
simplify startup splash screen - now the Openauto Pro splash screen appear twice..
adding shutdown splash screen
radio devices
add some standard ticks, slider bar, and on off Gui that can inject Can bus into the car
can play HiRES audio format like *.dsf and others
faster boot time and sleep mode

[Chrisfromwa]

My wish:
simplify startup splash screen - now the Openauto Pro splash screen appear twice..
adding shutdown splash screen
radio devices
add some standard ticks, slider bar, and on off Gui that can inject Can bus into the car
can play HiRES audio format like *.dsf and others
faster boot time and sleep mode

So I'm not the only one that has the double splash screen thing.  I thought it was just mine install for some reason.  I have this nice Toyota animation, but about half way it blanks.  Then comes back on and starts over.  Never actually goes through the whole animation in one shot.

[BlueWave]

Do you connect your RPI via HDMI? If yes, then issue is related to your screen. Screen blanking means negotiation of the resolution. You need to double check your config.txt settings and available resolutions in xrandr. There is nothing we can do on OpenAuto Pro side.

[wkl3968]

yes. HDMI for widescreen setup. is there an alternative to HDMI for 12.3 inch widescreen? any suggestion on how to eliminate the splashing twice? I'm not pro in raspbian or linux.

[Daniel_BlueWave]

This thread is about ideas for OAP. If you would like to trigger other discussion, please create separate topic.

[wkl3968]

more request:
1) allow rear camera video about to stretch across the widescreen 12.3 inch 1920x720. currently the rear camera is confine to a small frame video. it doesn't look grand
2) better transitioning of screen especially switching from Android auto to OPA vice versa. https://youtu.be/HosUOgqWUac
3) get rid of Android Auto resume screen - see the same youtube video link
4) Album Art Work on OPA can be link to Sportify Album Art Work
5) Address the "Unable to open MTP device "001, 010" - not sure how to solve but if this happened, the connection with Android Auto freezes
6) allow Can bus signal to control the brightness of the screen via HDMI
7)run on more powerful hardware for faster responses and faster boot time
8) show the ip address of the Pi in one of the info screen. - easier to SSH
9)pls revamp the OBDII dashboard
10) shutdown splash screen -

[wkl3968]

Can OPA work on other SBC that can boot a lot of faster? I found this new Asus Tinker Edge -R and I'm not sure OPA can work or boot faster. however the hardware looks promising. Sleep mode for Pi perhaps can be triggered?
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/02/...rk3399pro/

[Daniel_BlueWave]

Thanks for the feedback's.
Regarding other SBCs, there is no change in our approach: https://bluewavestudio.io/community/thre...light=asus

[Ladermeister]

I have two very effortless requests, I think at least one of them was already mentioned by others.

The intermediate screen to resume Autobox(CarPlay) is unnecessary (and actually it does only work if the button says resume, if it says wifi it means the connection has been lost and it will not reconnect anyways.
Instead name the menu button on main screen as CarPlay and trigger the same function as the other button one menu deeper would.
The info button content could be placed somewhere in setup.
If possible, it would also be great if a reconnect could be triggered in case connection was lost.

Second: I would love to be able to put units/unit names for OBD gauges separately in config.ini, and if possible also decide if displayed in front or after the gauge name.

The problem is that if OBD values are put in status bar, it does not match with the position of the Value itself.

E.g. it should be Boost 0.95 [Bar]“ in status line but it’s not possible to place name in front and unit after value.
When showing gauges, I would prefer „Boost [bar]“ as name, but that would result in „0.95 Boost [Bar]“ in Status line which is awkward to read.

So maybe one free text before and one after the value and also differently for gauges abs status bar (means four instead of one name field per PID) would be great.
If the text size of the one before and the one after the value could be adjusted differently, it would be more than fantastic as I could then fit more values by making the units smaller.

Omitting the units is not really an option for me to be honest…


Thank you so much for this great piece of software! I’d like to point that out at this place.

P.S.: I also support other users wish that the return point from autobox must be main screen. That’s somehow correlated to my wish above.

[wkl3968]

after using the OpenAuto Pro 16 for 3 months, these are my wishlist
1) the android auto or aasdk didn't use the gps signal routed through gpsd. I tried multiple times but Android Auto just not picking up gpsd. so I hope there is away to fix this.
2) starting Android Auto while in reverse camera mode, the reverse camera video flicking the video between Android Auto and reverse camera. not sure why is this. hope can be fixed.