Would you guys be interested in this?
 

I spent a couple days messing with flows and some programs and was able to come up with a cool set up for my tablet, so i no longer need to manually turn it off/on and it can finally be one with the car.

It automatically turns on as the car turns on and when the car is on, the screen is set to maximum brightness and always turned on.

Soon after, it plays a greeting of my choice, and plays music from a playlist of my choice.

When the car is turned off, the music is automatically stopped, and the tablet revokes its previous settings regarding brightness and goes into sleep mode after 15 seconds.


And the cycle repeats...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cgj...ature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzJ14EK1-rk

Two different styles. One auto plays music, whereas the other simply brings up your default music player.

Cool! I like the greeting voice. Futuristic.

Got pics of your setup?

I want it

Me2!!

But can you remove the tablet?

Yes. But I bought a second tablet so I can l can leave it in there.

Will it work on any tablet?

My setup is for droid but as long as u can run an app with the same compatibility of Automate u should be good.

I recently changed the voice to a male Brit, kinda like Jarvis lol

Workflow automation. Reminds me of Apples automator.

edit: Did you develop the app?

No. Im tech savvy but not on that level. Never saw anybody using it for car stuff and I got really tired of having to mess with the tablet in the car.

Many hours later and a headache I finally got it to work flawlessly.

However the custom text to speech voices are from multiple different apps. That was another headache, finding voices that sound legit and are free. 99% of the legit voices are highway robbery

Well after a couple messages on here and on the thread as well as a bunch of people on the 370z facebook page; clearly some people want to know how to do it.

I'm already working on making a video, just give me some time! I work as a CO and my shift is the night shift, so its dark when I get home and I can't really record it. Having to do it on days off when I have time.


The job/apps are 100% free. Mounting the tablet is a whole different animal. I actually haven't gotten into officially mounting the tablet. It has been on there with double velcro strips over the cubby, I actually liked it since I only had one tablet and used it outside the car. But eventually I got tired of having to turn it on/off, mess with the brightness, ect. So I did this job and now got a second tablet.

I'm currently into the process of taking off the dash and putting it in permanently. Im actually going to be using magnets drilled into the cubby for it. I have a buddy who did the same thing(not a Z) and he will be helping me with the job. His looks amazing. So, technically you could still remove it, but its going to look alot more professional.



If a mod could change the title of thread that'd be great. Anything relevant will do. I'll just be posting everything on here.

*Updated with another different style video instead of auto playing the music*

I just bought a nexus 7 tablet. Can you give me more info on how to do this? Thx!

I'm about to buy one as well... I'm doing a similar setup... Got any info you can give us on the process? Thanks man!

I have a nexus 7 for just this reason, but havent tried to implement any software or anything because I wanted to have the mounting issue solved first. I tried using magnets but Im having trouble keeping the magnets on my tablet skin. Liquid nails works best but it does eventually fall off (longest ive had it work was about 6 hours). Any advice/ideas? Im thinking of usign keyhole fasteners.

I'm sorry for no updates. Heres a quick little tutorial, later when I get home i'll screenshot the picture of my flow set up.
However, for those who are somewhat tech savy, you can start fooling around with it and probably get it set up on your own. It's all done via apps and bluetooth(as long as you have a headunit with bluetooth).


The voices, these are the only decent free ones.

Download IVONA AMY UK ENGLISH, for the female brit.

And William TTS (Sounds the most like Jarvis lol)

After you download these packets(they're rather large, around 200mb so make sure you're on wifi) you need to download another program that creates a text to speech file. Theres plenty of free ones. After you create your file with your voice, that's all you need for your greeting message.



Automate this is the main application you will be using. Download it and all of its subcategories from Google Play.

Now, the tricky part is now. Creating flows. Just mess around with it you'll probably be able to pick up on it after a while.

My main flow that I use is...

1) It starts the flow whenever it detects bluetooth, so aka, when your car turns on.

2) The next flow is to change your screen brightness to max and set it to never sleep.

3) Now, you can enter your soundfile that you created to play next. After it finishes it will start the next flow.

4) For this flow, I ended up just going with having it open my main music playing program, which is Amazon Music.

5) For this flow, I have it set again to detect a change in bluetooth, this time, the change will be when it disconnects(car turns off). Once bluetooth disconnects it starts the next flow.

6) This flow cuts all sound off and reverts the tablet back to its original power saving settings(Mine is set to sleep after 15 seconds of inactivity.)

7) For the last one, you now drag your last flow all the way to your start flow. So now, again, its waiting for a change in bluetooth to start it over again.




The problems I ran into so far, is after about 5 days, the tablet needs recharging. It's easy for me, because I simply secured my tablet with fasteners, stays on tight, and comes off easy.





The ultimate way to do it, so you literally never have to touch a thing again, is to set your flow to start and stop with a change in power. So you can keep your tablet plugged into the cigarrete port on the passangers side. And everytime you turn on your car, it will start charging and then start the flow. Then when you turn off your car, the charge stops, and the next flow starts causing the power goes off.

However, the problem with this comes in terms of mounting...the power cord gets in the way. I suppose you could try to drill a hole on the side and do it, but... yeah that's for a whole another day.

But if you can, that's the ulimate way, you'll never have to mess with it again.

This is a very cool idea. I have a 2010 touring model so no navi in mine. However it does have Bluetooth; but it wont steam music from my phone it will just do phone commands like calling, answering calls, etc. BUT, I do have this little car Bluetooth receiver that plugs into the cig lighter which is nice. Then I just use the AUX setting. Would I be able to install the nexus 7 and get it to function properly with my setup?? Thanks.

Lol I need screen shots of the flow charts. Don't know what I'm doing.

Also, are you able to hook up your phone via Bluetooth to the head unit? My head unit only allows 1 connected device.

Howdy! Here are a couple flow charts. One for bluetooth and the other for power supply. If you hit anymore bumps let me know, happy to help.


http://i.imgur.com/TMIbXBq.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/otK1RHr.jpg


And I recently switched to a Verizon tablet with data. I wanted TV through UVerse Lol!!

http://i.imgur.com/zpuCkG7.jpg

I think you're thinking too much into it man. I mean of course you can get border or fill it with fiberglass... but too expensive for me.

I used velcro fasteners, simply two along the top and two on the tablet. Comes off easy, but stays on tight, doesnt move at all.

Looks professional as well, because the tablet fits perfectly into the cubby.

However, I could see it looking cheesy or unprofessional if you had a smaller tablet and used fasteners, probably wouldnt look right.

Your head unit should have two options for Audio and Phone. I have my phone bluetoothed for phone calls and my tablet for tablet **** lol.

This is exactly what I've been looking since I bought my Z. I keep looking at the empty space there above the sound system and have thought it would be perfect place to mount a 7" tablet.

Look forward to seeing your install procedure.

This is how I keep my Nexxus 7 attached to the cubby...

I got it to work. Turns out if you wait the cure time of the adhesive, it actually works. lol

Told ya! Looks awesome man!

Its been holding pretty good. I got my custom gauges going and it looks great. I tried using automate but couldnt quite get it right.

Does anyone have screenshots of a flow showing the use of Torque and the deep hibernate features from the Timur Kernel?

OP - awesome idea. Been thinking about this for a while.

How does it hold up under severe temps? I am afraid of that in the texas heat :(

Also, what ideas do you guys have of still keeping the cubby storage? Can we put a small tab to lift the tablet and use the storage if we needed to?

Mine is held in with magnets for this very reason. I put magnets on the tablet and behind the cubby. I havent done it yet but i plan to put magnets on the back of the cubby door for when im not using the tablet. Right now its the same cubby just doorless lol. As for the heat, it (the liquid nails I used on the tablet) holds up to the San Diego heat pretty well.