Video file

(EDIT 11.04.06) Other webs where you can see the video:
YouTube, justanothermobilemonday, Solsie, ingope.in.ohost.de

Video shows car setup to use X51V & Aximizer as Carputer providing following features:

1. Bluetooth GPS Navigation
2. Fast tap Bluetooth dialling.
3. Music
4. Movies (not for the driver of course)
5. Online car diagnostics.

Car setup components:

1. X51V + Ratoc USB Host + Aximizer
2. Bluetooth GPS
3. Bluetooth Cell phone.
4. 7” VGA TFT w/touchscreen
5. HD USB + Power inverter (12vDC to 220vAC 300w).
6. Car diagnostics OBD-II to RS232 adaptor.
7. USB and SD slots built at car front panel.
8. (Optional USB keyboard) (EDIT 10.21.06)

REMARKS:

• Only one mass storage device can work at a time. Not shown in video but car front panel USB & SD slots behaves following way: while having HD USB connected all the time, when plugging a SD card or USB memory it becomes the active mass storage device. When removing it HD becomes active automatically.
• Not shown in video but a keyboard connected to car front panel USB slot also works fine.
• Mass storage devices and keyboard use Ratoc supplied driver. Touchscreen uses eGalax driver.
• M|N5 is not my preferred Navigator, but is the only one I found that behaves properly with following features at a time: mirror mode + horizontal layout + minimize, as video shows.
• I know fast tap dialling is not fast enough , less taps are required. Still searching for better software.
• I know, I know, I have to skin it a lot .
• I am not using motorized in-dash TFT because I could not find anyone able to adjust left & right orientation.
• My current car diagnostics adaptor is a very simple model that does not change non-standard car baud rate of 10400baud. It only partially works with VagCheck if I reduce CPU speed to the minimum of 104MHz. VagCheck display does not have horizontal mode so video demonstration is done on PDA screen. I am to buy an adaptor based on microcontroller ELM323, there are a lot of very nice programs to work with it.

(Edit 10.06.06) A TO DO list has been added at post #15.