An old android phone with a micro-hdmi port
The last phone I saw with a micro HDMI port was the blackberry Z10 in 2013
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njordomir@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThat was my first thought. How do you keep it cold enough to run in a place like Arizona, Spain, or Mexico? It also reminded me of my Windows Mobile days before I had a smartphone when someone on a Windows Mobile forum took a Dell Axim x51v and built a dock for it that exposed all the ports so he could use it with an external display as an infotainment/nav system. He called it the Aximizer. An old android phone with a micro-hdmi port might be the modern equivilant.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
tsl@lemmy.stefanoprenna.com 4 weeks ago
I had a Raspberry Pi2 in my car for a few years. The weather here in Barcelona is quite hot during summer, but even if it was left in the car under the sun, it always worked well.
I used it with the official Touch display, but added some physical buttons for navigation and playback as a touchscreen is never as good as real buttons, and anyway after some time, the touch function did stopped working well.
I used Kodi to play media, with a low resolution, “made for car” theme and using an addon to read the gpio buttons plus another one to make Kodi read only. The car adapter I used to supply power did not always trigger a clean shutdown, but having Kodi and most of the OS read only (i. e. no logs), I literally used the same SD card for years without any issue.
I could have used a gps as well (and launched its app from Kodi), but I got gifted a gps so used that.
Now I don’t need this as I changed car, but I still use occasionally the RPi2 with its screen as no matter what, they still work fine :)
Ultimately, I wanted to mention that more powerful boards will require even more watts and more stable power, so it might just be easier with an old board.