[aurelpascu24]

I want to present my project that I made for my car(renault megane sedan) with my old blackberry playbook.
The tablet is fully integrated in car's dashboard.
I use a dc-dc converter 13,4 to 12v to power the playbook.
I use neutron player for music because this have an option to play/pause the music when stereo jack is inserted or pulled out. I hooked up the playbook to find the contact that detects the stereo jack and with a relay connected to my car's audio system, now the music plays when the radio cd starts.
For navigation I use Magellan compass and osmand+
Also I bought a wi-fi obd adapter and torque app to see in real time vehicle parameters.

I can acces my playbook files thru my wi-fi home network to put on playbook music, videos and files. I can acces playbook memory by typing : fille://playbook from start search on my windows 7 pc.

Enjoy the movie that I posted on youtube
Aurel Pascu - Blackberry Playbook in car's dash - via SuperTube for BlackBerry 10!


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[aurelpascu24]

PS.
As my daily driver I use blackberry q10 witch connects to the tablet via bridge and I can see the caller id, answer a call directly from playbook and speak thru my Sony Ericsson bluetooth system.
I can put my phone in the glow compartment.

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[Gatmyer]

Whoa! Nicely done sir!

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[jojo beaconsfield]

Excellent!!!

[Drenegade]

A thing of beauty. Thanks for sharing.

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[Nicholas Mauro]

Wow that's awesome. I've always wanted to attempt this. Good on ya

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[Gatmyer]

You wouldn't happen to be in southern ontario and be willing to do some custom work. My Celica could sure use an upgrade

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[aurelpascu24]

You wouldn't happen to be in southern ontario and be willing to do some custom work. My Celica could sure use an upgrade

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Sorry . I am from Romania but I can. Help you with some instruction and a diagram. It's not so hard

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[seemsixty7]

Looks great!

[darkhawk]

A thing of beauty

[Rad_Book]

Looks great, diagrams would be nice to look at.

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[cdnynot]

That truly is a thing of beauty!!
Thank you for sharing, I really want to do this to my Ford F150...

[Toodeurep]

Very nice! I've been thinking of doing something like that. It definitely wouldn't look that nice.

[aurelpascu24]

Thank you all . It's not an expensive project. You need a playbook witch is cheap those days, a dc-dc converter, a couple of wires and some electronic basic knowledge.

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[hashtagwinning]

This is awesome! It'd be cool if you could have a reverse camera linked up to this too!

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[aurelpascu24]

I don't have the camera at all . It has broken when I dropped my playbook. The both cameras.

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[darkhawk]

Reverse camera is something I was going to work on for my version of the playbook dash. The app I was going to try is tinycam they published a list of camera options I'll see if one would work
My reason is cool factor and I hope to get an RV and that would be handy!

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[aurelpascu24]

A simple diagram of the project


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[1TIME]

Wow that looks great! Awesome job!

[anon(2313227)]

What audio switch are you talking about? I've always wanted to do this as well but the bt ODII i have are not great tried two. maybe I should just do this with a spare Z30. But I can see how a PB is nicer because of Bridge.

[Bravurag]

Man Clean your car please

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[anon(2313227)]

My Car is worse. It is an old car.
If he had a new one he would not need to do this at all and I am sure it would be cleaner.

Man Clean your car please

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[aurelpascu24]

I am very happy, just found a way to keep alive playbook's screen. Now when the car's hi-fi sistem is on so the playbook and it stays like this until I turn off the sistem no matter if is android portedd, paybook app or home screen.

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[anon(2313227)]

via an App?

I am very happy, just found a way to keep alive playbook's screen. Now when the car's hi-fi sistem is on so the playbook and it stays like this until I turn off the sistem no matter if is android portedd, paybook app or home screen.

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[aurelpascu24]

No, is not possible with any app. It's a hardware mod. I use a 12 v quick charge port to charge my playbook. And since I use the 12 v plug, my micro usb is free. The micro usb is host capable but os 2.1 doesn't know usb host. The micro usb have 5 pins 1+, 2data +, 3data-, 4 usb switch(between client and host) and 5 ground. When pin 4 is put to the ground is supposed to make micro usb host but os 2.1 doesn't have usb host support but instead, when pin 4 is put on the ground it wakes up the device. So, with a ne555 ic and a simple diagram with a relay, the circuit produced pulses who are trasmited to relay witch periodical makes contact between pin 4 from microusb and the ground to keep the device screen alive.


I used a relay instead the led. When we use an relay, the circuit doesn't need r3. The relay is mounted between the pin 3 of the ne555 and the ground.

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