GU Patrol Car PC Install

[Craigus]

It seems your install is famous....

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1858814,00.asp

[happpyg]

Nice! Thanks Craig.

[Rolling Stone]

happyg, I know it is possible to run a radio skin on RR, however, just wondering as to the set-up of getting the signal in. You have replaced the radio in the dash, do you still have radio acces or all your own tracks? I know an FM card can be placed in the computer, but do they also have any cards for AM?
Just wondering!

[happpyg]

I am using one of the old D-Link USB Radios. I bought that because when I started out with the Car PC I was going to use MediaCar (or MediaEngine - can't remember now, one of them had support for the DLInk). Then Road Runner came out & continued support for it so I stuck with it. The signal comes in through the line in input on the soundcard & Road Runner autmatically mutes/unmutes this line when you start the radio up. I think now RoadRunner supports other radios through software called Radiator but not sure about AM support. I am sure you would find answers over at mp3car.com though. I have not really missed it & don't even really use the FM radio but it is handy every now & then.

Hope that helps!

[Rolling Stone]

Thanks happyg, will check the site.

[mgemin]

sweeeet man

[Mr Router]

Gday I bought a wireless key board that looks just the same for $15 at the computer fair, that was in June ! now they are $20.
I mounted it on a travel table with some velcro.
We used the system for 24 hrs constant with no problem.

[wazza4wd]

This is a work in progress but basically a 10inch touch screen 120 gig hdd 512 ram 3ghz process Ozi Explorer cars stereo through media center wirless and bluetooth enabled for mobile phone handsfree usb GPS antenna
CO pilot for around town wirless phillips keyboard ps2
Photos to follow soon

[Mr Router]

Man oh man I wish we took photos of the system we took to mission impossible ! Bluetooth everything and a 15 in tft in front of the passenger, it was cool.

[Jasper]

It seems your install is famous....

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1858814,00.asp

Almost 2 years on and that link still works with that photo.


Follow the link and look at the car pc component list...

one of them is "Counter-Intelligence: Smoke Screen, Oil Slick, Flip-up License Plate, Hideaway Machine Guns"

I'm sure alot of people have that in their car...

[happpyg]

Almost 2 years on and that link still works with that photo.


Follow the link and look at the car pc component list...

one of them is "Counter-Intelligence: Smoke Screen, Oil Slick, Flip-up License Plate, Hideaway Machine Guns"

I'm sure alot of people have that in their car...

haha, no but now you have me thinking.......

[blade828]

Hi mate
What skin have you used for road runner?

[happpyg]

Hi mate
What skin have you used for road runner?

I have settled on one called Triton for a while now with my own small mods and made my own gauges for the main screen. You can find it here: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/rr-s...60-triton.html I can put a link up to it here if anyone wants it, I changed it around a bit to suit embedding oziexplorer etc in RoadRunner.

[blade828]

I am starting to get the hang of making my own skin. Its a very slow process! How did you go about embedding Ozi into RR?

[happpyg]

I am starting to get the hang of making my own skin. Its a very slow process! How did you go about embedding Ozi into RR?

Yeah, I started one but it is such a big job I didn't have time to finish it. Embedding Ozi wasn't fun at first but I ended up getting it to work reliably using a program called skinbedder from the mp3car website. I have everything you need zipped up somewhere, I did post it on the mp3car website somewhere but can't remember where. I am leaving for holidays tomorrow morning for a week so if you haven't got it sorted by then pm me and i'll dig it up for you and post it here.