Your exactly right!!

This is a thing that I did that I'm not sure anyone else has yet.

You impaled your automatic transmission?

Not mine.

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This is what you get and the part # from Nissan if needed:
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Excellent thank you.

Happen to know the screen size but chance? I've been trying to find it but having no luck. Most I an gather is it is a 7" screen, which isn't exactly specific.

I can do 1 better, it is a 7" screen when measured diagonally, but to help more this is the exact model in my car: Accele LCDP7NB-B
The only issue I have ran into that I would like to solve is the screen does not power on when the car starts, it has a small remote I have to hit a power button on and then it turns on. :shakes head:

I wonder if there is an Android tablet that will fit that, the trick would be if the buttons will fit as well, or if you could do without them. There must be a way. I'd prefer a Mini4 but it's 8" and obviously won't fit. I'm really only concerned about running DashCommand and Androids should automatically power on or at least can make it that way.

Looks like that bezel is $50 and Android tablets are easily found under $100 so pretty cheap to give it a try.

Dammit, now I've got another project to add to my never-ending list lol :tiphat:

You could probably pick up a Nexus tablet the last gen was a 7", have one at home and my wife uses just to watch our Nest Cams. There was some discussion on tablet use on the forum awhile back about loading a custom ROM and a few apps you could use that allows the same functions as the buttons. This way the bezel could cover them and no need to do any extra mods.

That would be sweet. I don't know squat about Android or custom noms but I'm sure there is a solution in there somewhere. Heck, as long as it will power on and automatically pick up the bluetooth from my Kiwi I'd be happy. Better of course if it would start up in the DC app.

Bonus points for being able to wire it to use the stock USB port in the centre console - without sacrificing charging of course.

I'll explore this a bit further. I know there are a bunch of threads on tablets in that cubby but this seems to be the simplest solution by a good margin.

This. i also dont have nav and iv been looking into something like this for months. i just looked on the HKS website and what you have has been discontinued. do know of anything similar to this?

I did some research into this a while back when I considered ditching the stereo to go full tablet integration... The Nexus 7 is the tablet to have for something like this because someone created a custom ROM for it that will allow the USB port to power/charge the tablet while also functioning as a USB host for accessories. With most other tablets you will find this to be an annoying barrier to tablet integration (you either get to power/charge the tablet or connect USB accessories, but not both). You could then use the USB host capability to integrate buttons (or even interface to your steering wheel buttons!), cameras, OBDII, external sensors, etc etc etc.

For something like this, it would probably be perfect. For completely replacing the stereo, I did not think it would be viable for two reasons:
1) Bluetooth calling - the tab can not connect to a phone to act as a hands-free device for calling... which sucks because it has all the necessary hardware (bluetooth transceiver, audio out jack, integrated microphone) . It's a limitation within android at the moment.
2) The custom ROM was only made for the Nexus 7, and I wanted to replace both the stereo and cubby with a 10" tablet.

Hope that knowledge dump helps someone.

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I wonder if it's a hardware limitation, or just software, for the bluetooth calling