Tkbckrd
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UI question for use in vehicle

Mon Dec 07, 2015 7:46 am

So I have this huge dream like everyone else but the only thing I am not 100% about how to do is creating a UI to control everything. My wife is a volunteer firefighter and is wanting to add some strobe lights to our POV, my main issue is I hate the thought of having switches and panels everywhere. My dream would be to do like many others have and set her car up with a Touchscreen which includes a media center and vehicle diagnostics, but i would love to have a UI that you could control the strobe lights and such through easily. Making them work is easy enough with relay panels, that isn't really my issue. I am just wondering if there is a UI out there that can be customized and contain all of the features that I'm going for.

Wants:
Media Center
Navigation
Vehicle Diagnostics
>UI to control strobe lights<

My idea is that the UI either listed the items (i.e. Front Hideaways, Grille, Sides, Rear, Traffic Advisor, etc.) or have some sort of nice looking pictures/diagrams. I know Kodi (XBMC) have some nice options for media centers, Navigation, etc so if there were something within that UI that I could use/customize it would be amazing.


Any ideas? Hopefully this isn't too much of a stretch.

ghans
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Re: UI question for use in vehicle

Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:11 am

Which programming languages do you know ?

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Tkbckrd
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Re: UI question for use in vehicle

Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:48 am

Sadly none at the moment. Everything that I try to do I have to google it and teach myself so its a long process.

ghans
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Re: UI question for use in vehicle

Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:01 am

Skinning XMBC/Kodi might be easier (its essentially XML) but limited. The interesting things are seemlingly done by Python code in Kodi anyway.

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Tkbckrd
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Re: UI question for use in vehicle

Mon Dec 07, 2015 12:29 pm

Ok cool then that's the route I'll try first. Thank you!

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