Tesla style head unit

Nice thing is it has a gps section that shows what satellites it's picking up and how strong they are

 

So Eric sent me a video of how to change the gauges but its really just the style you cannot change them to another in your truck.
https://youtu.be/k0swyotE5mc

 

The Torque app has the ability to add tons of different gauges, but I don't think anyone is using/tested it on this thread.

 

I had considered it myself but had already bought the extra toyota pids on obd fusion for my iphone so didn't want to do that again. I don’t believe you can get free trans temp readings from these apps without the purchase of their higher programs but I could be wrong.

 

I'll do some testing in next few days on my tablet. I have a good odb reader and the torque pro app. Will see what guages are available with the truck. I mostly use it on my M3

 

Sounds great, post your findings would be nice to see what apps do what for people getting these units and wanting to read different gauges on the screen.

 

I did find this video showing how to connect the Torque app through ODB dongle wifi.

 

I believe what has been mentioned previously is that you can not have that and car play connected at the same time because only 1 wifi connection can be live at a time

 

What about Android Auto? I don't use carplay

Here is a shot of working and non working guages.

 

I haven't been able to get my Android auto to work as I expect it should. I've never seen/used it before so I don't know what to expect, but I can't get contacts to sync or messages to display. Doesn't bother me, I don't really care

 

I use android auto for the car, it's basically just for Spotify and Google maps tho.

 

The unit already has those apps, so it becomes redundant imo

 

Honestly if this is an android Hu and I can download those apps on the unit, all you really need then is a mobile Hotspot for the Hu and everything else should work fine. Would like to hear some comparisons between just using the Android HU vs Android auto on this hu

 

I never had good success with keeping it tethered or wifi on android HU's. So I end up using carplay almost 100% of the time; unless stopped then ill use other apps. If we could keep it connected via LTE all the time its more of a pain to use the native apps. Same would apply to android auto

 

My hotspot so far seems to work great, so I just use the native apps without problem. The android auto google gps for some reason struggles with location but the regular app doesn't. I'm also surprised how little data it uses. I got 40gb/month and I've only used 2 so far

 

interesting. I've only ever used wired android auto so no idea how it functions wirelessly compared to carplay

 

It was more the hot spot connections via I home. I Hague not picked up a hot spot dedicated mainly because truck isn’t being used daily anymore hit had planned on it

 

DHL sent email be here soon!

 

Received mine last night, 5 days early I might add! So now it begins hopefully I will have time to mess with it today.

 

So for anyone with my style stereo and these connectors in the pic below from your original head unit with the sharkfin antenna

this is what you’ll need to connect your sharfin GPS antenna, if you have one, to this head unit

https://www.discountcarstereo.com/xms-toy.html?category_id=273