Hi Folks, I've just bought a 407 zenith and love the car to bits (first peugeot) so much so that I've decided to install a 7" Android tablet multimedia system, thought about going down the car pc road but the tablet seems perfect for the job, I've gone with the Viewsonic Viewpad 7 tablet due to size, front facing buttons, built in bluetooth, wifi, gps and as a bonus 3g internet connection/ telephone via simcard from giffgaff £10 month unlimited internet + unlimited texts and 250mins calls, which should suffice.
The car is fitted with the standard RD4 stereo (no sat nav) which I'm keeping and running the tablet through AUX 1 which I activated at the weekend.
Jobs I've done so far are:
removed stereo display and re-cited in place of ashtray in new basic surround.
Took fiberglass mold of stereo display surround and made new fiberglass 8" surround for tablet, got local paint shop to colour match surround paint.
moved OBDII socket through 90` and refitted in bottom of armrest with bluetooth ELM 327 interface.
Current Multimedia Apps I've installed are:
Sygic satnav, uses tom tom maps really impressed with it
google maps with navigation as a back up
Player Pro, music and video library looks really good with album/artist art display
Car home ultra, which is a custom frontend for the tablet with large customized icons, easy to see and press while driving
RAC traffic, lets me know where all the accidents and delays are
Torque Pro, realtime OBDII ECU reader with custom dials
Screen off, for turning screen on and off
Also internet/email etc
So far everything has gone pretty well only 1 minor issue, audio isn't loud enough you have to have everything turned up full to hear it on the motorway, hopefully going to combat this by adding an inline headphone amplifier.
Just wondering if anyone else has tried installing a tablet any advice and what additional apps they're running.
Anyone else fancies offering up any ideas and apps to go with it please do
The car is fitted with the standard RD4 stereo (no sat nav) which I'm keeping and running the tablet through AUX 1 which I activated at the weekend.
Jobs I've done so far are:
removed stereo display and re-cited in place of ashtray in new basic surround.
Took fiberglass mold of stereo display surround and made new fiberglass 8" surround for tablet, got local paint shop to colour match surround paint.
moved OBDII socket through 90` and refitted in bottom of armrest with bluetooth ELM 327 interface.
Current Multimedia Apps I've installed are:
Sygic satnav, uses tom tom maps really impressed with it
google maps with navigation as a back up
Player Pro, music and video library looks really good with album/artist art display
Car home ultra, which is a custom frontend for the tablet with large customized icons, easy to see and press while driving
RAC traffic, lets me know where all the accidents and delays are
Torque Pro, realtime OBDII ECU reader with custom dials
Screen off, for turning screen on and off
Also internet/email etc
So far everything has gone pretty well only 1 minor issue, audio isn't loud enough you have to have everything turned up full to hear it on the motorway, hopefully going to combat this by adding an inline headphone amplifier.
Just wondering if anyone else has tried installing a tablet any advice and what additional apps they're running.
Anyone else fancies offering up any ideas and apps to go with it please do