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kousik · 12th September 2007, 17:00

I was looking into the softwares I can hack to run in Linux based car pcs. I already mentioned about linuxICE, a lightweight distribution that'll run as the OS, it is time to search for a good frontend.

I downloaded and compiled nGHOST. Fixed a bug too :-) So here is nGHOST running on my desktop, next target is to install linuxICE in a disk partition and compile it there. The developers of these are very much debian oriented, but I didn't have much trouble running it in my FC6 box. The last image is "night mode" (can be set depending on time).

The next thing to search for was a OBD tool. I downloaded Carman, which is actually written for Nokia tablets, and though I had some python incompatibilities, I could run it in Fedora Core 6. Here it is running in simulator mode. I don't have a bluetooth OBD scantool yet, but hopefully it'll work with the one iRide selling.

So, that's going on software front. In Hardware, not much progress yet, I am yet to order the parts.

Kousik

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12th September 2007, 17:00	#21 (permalink)
kousik BHPian Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bangalore Posts: 85	I was looking into the softwares I can hack to run in Linux based car pcs. I already mentioned about linuxICE, a lightweight distribution that'll run as the OS, it is time to search for a good frontend. I downloaded and compiled nGHOST. Fixed a bug too :-) So here is nGHOST running on my desktop, next target is to install linuxICE in a disk partition and compile it there. The developers of these are very much debian oriented, but I didn't have much trouble running it in my FC6 box. The last image is "night mode" (can be set depending on time). The next thing to search for was a OBD tool. I downloaded Carman, which is actually written for Nokia tablets, and though I had some python incompatibilities, I could run it in Fedora Core 6. Here it is running in simulator mode. I don't have a bluetooth OBD scantool yet, but hopefully it'll work with the one iRide selling. So, that's going on software front. In Hardware, not much progress yet, I am yet to order the parts. Kousik (click on the thumbnails for a larger image (though that too resized to half))