Virtual Dash Solutions?
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 3:06 am
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew of some virtual dash applications that accept their input via an ethernet socket.
I have a gui front end to communicate with my ecu & I implemented a down and dirty virtual dash just for testing. Currently I just read the ECU and control my widgets directly on the screen via the same application/thread, but it occurred to me that I if I set up the architecture for the virtual dash component to receive it's data over a socket (usually just localhost if you're tuning on the laptop) the "dash" could be anywhere such as your laptop....or a professional tuner/mechanic miles away, or both simultaneously, ect.
Then it occurred to me that someone else has probably has already done this.
I also have plans to just tunnel the serial port commands to/from the ecu to/from a socket via the host PC so the tuning application could actually be remote as well. Once this is done, I wouldn't really need the Virtual Dash to have sockets, but I would still like to integrate a nicely written virtual dash with skins if possible into my application. Any thoughts/ideas?
Lenny
Note: I realize there are applications that mimic entire screens/computer control. This is not what I'm looking for.
I was wondering if anyone knew of some virtual dash applications that accept their input via an ethernet socket.
I have a gui front end to communicate with my ecu & I implemented a down and dirty virtual dash just for testing. Currently I just read the ECU and control my widgets directly on the screen via the same application/thread, but it occurred to me that I if I set up the architecture for the virtual dash component to receive it's data over a socket (usually just localhost if you're tuning on the laptop) the "dash" could be anywhere such as your laptop....or a professional tuner/mechanic miles away, or both simultaneously, ect.
Then it occurred to me that someone else has probably has already done this.
I also have plans to just tunnel the serial port commands to/from the ecu to/from a socket via the host PC so the tuning application could actually be remote as well. Once this is done, I wouldn't really need the Virtual Dash to have sockets, but I would still like to integrate a nicely written virtual dash with skins if possible into my application. Any thoughts/ideas?
Lenny
Note: I realize there are applications that mimic entire screens/computer control. This is not what I'm looking for.