Is there a way to use a double din monitor as a data display? OR

What I would like to do is use my JVC radio as a display for all of my engines info. EGT, AFR, Boost etc... So has anyone tried to do this or is it possible?

 

I am working on doing exactly that. I am trying to set up a 7" touch screen monitor and a carputer running Microsoft XP, and will real time monitor, most likely using my Zeitronics. I am considering the Vitesse Motronic Monitor, but since I already have the Zeitronic installed in my car, I thought I would start with that.

It shouldn't be a problem. I will be running a separate amp to drive the existing speakers and an external volume control for audio. It will be running a broadband wireless card and have GPS, iTunes and Sirius radio interfaces. The biggest compromise appears to audio quality, which I don't care about anyway.

Regards,

 

zeitronics would be sweet but what about the plx system. It seems to me that they have done alot of the work allready.

 

Try upgrading to this lol,then you can do anything http://www.cartft.com/catalog/gl/3?g...FQpatAodfVFHCg

 

Too complicated. It would just be nice to hit an aux button on the radio and have a nice looking display of guages with all of the cars data on it.

Then hit dvd, cd or ipod and go back to that. Just a very clean install.

It seems to me that if you had a small system running all of the data then just send it to a monitor would be the way to set it up. Then it would be even better if you could customize the display screen. (plx does just that)

 

Zeitronix has a great new display if u have not seen it.

http://www.zeitronix.com/Products/dashdaq/dashdaq.htm

 

That is exactly what I want except I want it to work on a double din radio.

 

I was thinking about using a second hand 8" tablet PC it would run my TE 3c my motec and i gues get a GPS thing for it and put 200 hard drive in it for music perhaps run it as a dash as i think the TE can do speedo i guess a track ball in the console would be the way to got

 

Imagine having a normal double din dvd/nav radio in your 951 then just select a mode and have something like the DashDaq pop up.
Sweet!!!!!!!!!

Now that is what I am talking about Willis!

 

yeh but but is dash daq OBD 2 like the rest of em ??

 

Unless you do something heavily custom, then using a small PC and running Motronic Monitor or Zeitronix or whatever else is the only way. DashDaq and most of the other options are ODB2 and thus wont work. PLX only uses its little display module, but there is the PLX iMFD Datalogger which has a bigger screen.

http://www.plxdevices.com/products/datalogger/

 

I didnt know it was OBDII. I thought it worked like the rest of thier stuff and was wired in to suit the users tastes. Well..... poop.

 

Nope, but it can connect to other stuff like Zeitronix or PLX and display all that.... Doesnt help for what the OP wants tho.

http://dashdaq.com/specs/addons.htm

 

Ok! so what if you were to take one that was compatible without obdII and open it up and wire in an output from it screen to and aux. then just run it to the radio input. Could that be done??

 

You would need something that originally came with an S-Video output, otherwise it wouldnt work.