407 Android Tablet Multimedia Install

[chance2020]

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

[bettyswollocks]

Photo`s please

[Karl68s]

Originally Posted by bettyswollocks

Photo`s please

More photo's and a guide please

[battlestar]

ooooo, interesting. nice touch with obd2 bluetooth connection.

[chance2020]

Just a quick one I took with my phone, I'll upload some better ones when I've got it right, still needs some fine tuning there's a few things i'm not quite happy with but it gives you the idea

[battlestar]

nice! if i was you, i would get the japanese visor thingy and mount the mfd in there.

[chance2020]

[QUOTE=battlestar;86006]nice! if i was you, i would get the japanese visor thingy and mount the mfd in there.

ooh priced one up at Peugeot today £90 might see if I can make one out of a 307 display

[chance2020]

As promised a few more pics, not decided yet what I'm doing with original mfd can't make my mind up where it's final resting place should be, so I've just got it in place of ashtray temporary for now, I'm going to do a quick vid over the next few days of the fully operational system so I'll post a link as soon as.

[chance2020]

Additions today: I modified the display surround and fitted an on off button (little black button top left of second pic) just so I can shut it down at night, the only real downside to using a tablet is the location of the buttons (power, menu, return) this tablet has all the important buttons on the front right of the display but the power button is mounted on the side of the tablet.
My original idea was to leave the tablet on all the time (it's permanently powered via a usb power supply I hashed up) and use a software "screen off" app to turn the screen on and off, however after going through a couple of dozen screen off apps the only one that could actually turn the screen on/off did it by turning the brightness to zero and back to full when you touched the screen fine during the day but at night the screen seems to glow with the backlight still powered, so half an hour today with a stanley knife some bits of plastic and glue and the power button can now be operated from the front.
Still use the screen off app during the day when parking up and press the power shut off at night so no glowing screen to attract attention.

[bettyswollocks]

Come over here and do mine , that looks good