ALS: Automotive Grade Linux [LWN.net]

ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Sep 27, 2012 19:48 UTC (Thu) by daglwn (guest, #65432)
In reply to: ALS: Automotive Grade Linux by pabs
Parent article: ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

Excellent! I'm building my own "carputer." I was planning to use MythTV as a frontend with some custom scripts for integrating navigation, etc. With these foundational packages entering Debian, do you know of any Free client-side code a homebrew enthusiast might be able to take advantage of?

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ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Sep 28, 2012 10:34 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (4 responses)

Navigation stuff, you probably want navit or monav. What other stuff are you looking for?

ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Sep 28, 2012 15:38 UTC (Fri) by daglwn (guest, #65432) [Link] (3 responses)

Things like ECU monitors and the like, mostly. Also things like news/information clients, weather apps, etc.

I assume that one would have to do some custom work to integrate navit or monav (or any application) into this IVI system. As I understand it, these packages basically act as a compositor. Code providing the actual information and interfaces exists as separate applications. I was hoping some of those applications written with these base libraries in mind might be available as Free Software.

ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Sep 28, 2012 16:22 UTC (Fri) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm afraid there aren't a whole heck of a lot of them out there. Alison is certainly more knowledgeable on the subject than I, however.

David Anders has also started a resource section on the elinux.org wiki that lists a few packages worth exploring. It is a post-ALS creation, though, so it may take time before contributors manage to link in all the extant options, many of which are one-developer projects at this stage.

Nate

ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Oct 6, 2012 6:37 UTC (Sat) by alison (subscriber, #63752) [Link]

The easiest solution is obdgpslogger, which has Debian and Ubuntu and (probably still) Fedora packages:

http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/

I also recommend having a look at mp3car.com forums, scantool.net forums, #linuxice IRC on freenode and (until elinux.org page Nate mentions exists):

http://wiki.openivi.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://mikesshop.net/

There were working Ubuntu and Debian packages for nobdy and libobd before the maintainer fell far behind, but I hear she hopes to catch up over Thanksgiving.

ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Oct 1, 2012 18:46 UTC (Mon) by miahfost (guest, #51602) [Link]

Just a few notes on navit;

- GENIVI created a proof of concept using navit and standardized GENIVI APIs, so yes, navit should work "out of the box" on a GENIVI based IVI system.
- Navigation is one of those differentiating areas, and it is hard to do well (ask Apple.)