Date:         Mon, 21 May 2012 09:09:11 -0400
Reply-To:     Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@IP-SOLUTIONS.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@IP-SOLUTIONS.NET>
Subject:      Virtualizing gauges on OBDII equipped vanagons
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Hi All,

So, after my "upgrade" to the bostig conversion I've been toying around
with replacing all of the analog gauges with a digital counterpart.

I'm wondering if anyone has gone this route? I'm going to leave all of
the analog gauges as I can't find a screen to fit nicely in that part of
the dash.

My plan goes loosely like this:

Get a ODBII bluetooth device reader to gather stats from the engines CPU.

Have a android tablet (or phone) that has bluetooth, and GPS and install
the Android App Torque to read and display the various gauges that I
want to recreate.

Right now I can display (in dial format) RPMs, Speed, Coolant Temp.

Also, in needle graph I can display O2 info, and Fuel rail stats.

Any of the wiser list members have thoughts about this? Too taxing for
the engine? Obviously I will have a fallback of all of the original
gauges should the tablet/phone/bluetooth connector fail.

Cheers,
Harry