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Questions tagged [cars]

For questions pertaining to projects integrating a Raspberry Pi to a mobile vehicle.

This tag is intended for RPi uses in a Car (UK) / Automobile (USA) environment though generally it will apply to any mobile environment with a supply of non-Mains AC power which may be continuous or intermittent, e.g. powered boats, trucks, caravanette or campervan (UK) / recreational vehicle (USA).

These types of situations may present issues with: extremes of temperature, vibration, legislation, user interfacing and/or electrical power.

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How to Decode TPMS Sensor data through RPi3 Bluetooth

I'm working with a Bluetooth TPMS Sensor (TP630). Here I have some important information about the sensor: Description: ➤ Bluetooth Transmit Power: 0dbm MAX ➤ Processor: 8-bit MCU / S08 core, ARM M0 ➤ Battery capacity: 140mAh…
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How to configure Raspberry Pi in my car

I have a plan to put a Raspberry Pi in my center console of my 2012 Nissan Maxima. I'm new to Raspberry Pi, but have experience with technology of this sort. In the center of my car, I have a: USB charging port RCA "Phono" Yellow White Red (white…
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Is the pi right for a key fob?

So im working on this project car and i want to have the coolest key fob ever. Theres videos of people making concept key fobs with touch screens and software running like a smartphone. i want to create something like that, just a simple input…
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Raspberry as audio bridge

I have a car with a 3.5mm jack for aux-in. It has also BT for my phone. In my phone, I have deezer (more or less like Spotify) that I use to send music to the car audio system. It works fine, but since the plug is inside the glove box, I have to…
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Car Powered Raspberry Pi: Safe Shutdown and Power On

Apologies if this is a duplicate, but I can't seem to find a suitable solution. I need to power a Raspberry Pi in a car, and for obvious reasons need to shutdown gracefully, however, I need it to automatically start backup when the car is started…
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Real Time Image Recognition at Low Resolution

Working on an embedded systems project. I’ve purchased a FLIR style thermal camera off an older cadillac. It outputs grayscale video at 320x240 (NTSC). Ultimately, I’d like to add night vision with image recognition to my car outputting to either a…
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Control car tachometer and Odometer

I am generating a 50% duty PWM signal from port 11 (pin 23) on a Raspberry Pi 3. import RPi.GPIO as GPIO from time import sleep GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) GPIO.setup(11,GPIO.OUT) p=GPIO.PWM(11,600) p.start(50.0) I have a spare dashboard of a VW…
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How to stop Car Alternator audio noise / buzz?

I connected a Raspberry Pi 2 in the car to add OSMC media player capabilities. However, there seems to be a buzz / hum of background noise in the audio. The noise is correlated to the engine speed so it seems to be coming from the Alternator. What…
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How to make ups hat run safe shutdown on raspberry when disconnected from the power source

It can be long discussion, because there is no single solution around this, so, to cut the story short, I will tell where I stuck on my way. It is AndroidAuto (media centre in car on raspi) project I'm currently working on, and I'm stuck on…
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Raspberry Pi case ventilation necessary?

I have a Pi 3 B+ that I am using as a portable media server, and it can get quite warm. I need a case for it, and I have been looking at a few, however very few of them have any sort of ventilation. Does this matter? Do you actually need holes in a…
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Determine with a circuit whether the Raspberry is off

I am building a RC car with a Raspberry Pi 3, and I would like to power the Raspberry with a battery. However, when the Raspberry is off, I would like to switch from the battery powering the Raspberry, to the battery being powered by a photovoltaic…
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measuring resistance (without ADC?)

Is it possible to read the signals from "simple resistor networks", as on this web site, using only the GPIO on a Raspberry 3? There are six cases with the resistance values 54 Ω, 147 Ω, 301 Ω, 562 Ω, 1037 Ω and 5057 Ω. I imagine getting a reading a…
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Wi-Fi enabled ODBII Script

I have a Wi-Fi enabled OBDII dongle for my car and want to connect it to my Pi to log diagnostics. I can find libraries and information for USB and Bluetooth OBDII adapters, but can't find anything about using Wi-Fi adapters. Does anyone know how to…
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12V DC buck converter to power Raspberry Pi

I found a DC-DC buck (step-down) converter on amazon that will drop my 12V supply to a 5V 3A max with micro USB already attached. can anyone foresee any issues with using this following product in particular? Am i right in saying that although 3…
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Connect a raspberry Pi to a Apple 30 pin dock (or car)

Anyone know if it would be possible using an apple 30 pin connector - which normally supplies power and receive an audio/data connection for music from a raspberry pi? So Ideally the raspberry pi: would receive power from dock via the…
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