doogstar

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a second opinion on a project idea (Pi5 car headunit)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its certainly doable, you just need to decide on where you want to start as a minimum viable product and tinker along as you go but ideally think far enough ahead about ideal situation so you don’t paint yourself into a corner and have to restart from scratch to get a certain outcome, although the Pi is pretty flexible for the power you’ll need.

  I did this around 20 years ago (obviously not with a Pi back then) but as things changed I came round to the less hassle option of a phone and Bluetooth, particularly as I was often driving cars I couldn’t tinker with too much.

  I had an implementation with a fold out 1 DIN touch screen which replaced the stereo and handled audio amplification etc and one with a stand alone hot plug 7" touchscreen. I had a reserve battery so that it stayed powered up for a short period of time after parking at home to do playlist and podcast synchronisation to my server in the house.

  As other people have mentioned I was using Kodi and running audio from it as well as satnav etc. Mp3car was a good resource at the time.