NOTE: I have an updated video for faster boot times and latest Pi4 hardware here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibyebNiKy6u1onU.html And, to answer the Frequently asked questions: How does it connect to the ecu? - Via USB connection from the Megasquirt MS3 ECU direct to the RasPi. Why didn't you use XYZ off the shelf product? - Because I like to tinker, and I can customise this how I like. What about OBD2? - Sorry, I have never tried... I am sure you can find info online though!

You have just made my day !!! , I was literally racking my brains how to build something in my car rather then having to pull the laptop out every time to tune the car , thanks for the vid , I shall be doing the same now I've see. This :)

Always love your content and the things you've done to your NB. I plan on doing time attack on my 350z and the Pi setup peaked my interests. I plan to use the setup once I get accustomed to driving my car to the limit in its stock form. As a means of data logging or gauge reading. Keep up the good work Beavis

This is exactly what I needed. I have an MS2 in my Beetle race car and wanted a nice simple digital dashboard. Thanks so much for making this video :)

I plan to use the setup once I get accustomed to driving my car to the limit in its stock form. As a means of data logging or gauge reading. Keep up the good work Beavis 1 BEAVIS Motorsport

Awesome details. Clear and concise information. Well done. How about we need with multi media for car entertainment?

Thank you for this!!!!! This will be my 1st Pi build, subscribed! Now I just gotta find a 10-12" screen that will run in portrait with touch. (Nudges in right direction from readers welcome)

Very smart idea dude, love it👌🏻

Great tutorial, I have been looking for someone to explain this so I could understand it. You have a new subscriber here. Thanks for posting.

Brilliant great video mate, easy to understand and well simply thats pimp.

Wow, cool project! Congrats!

Man that is awesome. Can you use the same setup to tune Hondas with chrome?

Very cool mate, would love to run something like this but with data logging as well. Can you set limits for temps and pressures and have alarms activated when those limits are exceeded? Any way of incorporating shift lights?

I love that idea!

Interesting project. The touchscreen interface may also make the Raspberry Pi 3 useful for home automation, security systems, irrigation controllers and other such projects.

Really helpful video man! Thanks a lot!

Great stuff, mate! I’d like to use it as a direct mirror interface with my iPhone. That way I could easily use maps and music in my minivan.

Just win a new sub! Excellent job, great idea!

Oh boy. The video about Pi and dash board and not a word about how it is actually connected inside the car. also. How do u power Pi in the car? Battery or cigarette lighter plug?

Good Stuff here! thanks for this!

Noice! Im keen to do similiar with a rasperry pi4 and Megasquirt3/microsquirt 3 combination. Integrating dashcams into the unit as well.

www video helped me make my raspberry pie, 10/10 youtube guide

wth that alien in the reflection of your screen scared the crap out of me lmfao

Nice! I've been trying to set this up in my project for a couple months now. I was wondering if this would work without megasqiurt?

If you were confident you could probably install the minimal version of raspbian providing only the command line and install your display server (X11 for example), and have the application launch directly on the display server on your user's login, without a full desktop environment. You could also write a little script so that when you got home the pi uploads data to server via your WiFi if you were to crontab it.

Very useful thank you much, i was wondering could you configure one of these to be a car radio ? If so how ?

that's just awesome! nice

Very nice video. I just have a quick question. I am a complete noob but would like to put a digital dash in a vintage motorcycle that uses analog inputs (Tach, speedometer/odometer, temperature mainly). I'm sure there's some coding that would need to be done for such a setup but is there specific controller that you can recommend for what I'm trying to accomplish?

your converter is pink i so want it

Thanks Helped alot

Great video man 👍🏽

You can also hook up and a SATA drive to the Raspberry Pi B. There's so many innovations that are going to be worth doing with single board computers and it is amazing. I've recently got the desktop raspbian to work and it looks great.

Nice work. Thanks

Great video man! Do you know how to automatically boot an MS project? So that you don't have to do anything apart from turning the key, to have your gauge on display?

How did you run power to the usb cable, what did you use to step down from 12v to 5v and do you have fuses setup for overload protection?

Very nice.

All sounds really cool - thinking of doing this for my Microsquirt-equipped '73 VW Super Beetle, probably with a somewhat smaller screen - will have to investigate what would fit into my dashboard best. Already have the Raspberry Pi 3, my uncle gave me that for Christmas to do something cool with - I think this qualifies! A few questions: How do you interface it to the ECU? That was never addressed in this video. I have the cable with RS 232 connector and USB adapter, do I plug that into the Raspberry's USB port? How do I get TunerStudio to automatically connect to it? I always have trouble getting TunerStudio to connect to the ECU when using my laptop, is there a way to resolve that? How is it powered and turned on/off? These use a 5V input, I'd assume tear apart a car phone charger, solder the inputs to the car's electric system and outputs to the Raspberry's input? Would I connect it to the key input so that it's powered when ignition is on, will the Raspberry boot automatically that way? Would it be possible to program in a dimmer or night mode? I'd think it would make sense to wire an analogue input to the dash lights so that when I turn on the dash lights (and headlights) it gets a lot dimmer. Is there a way to change the aesthetic of the gauges, maybe colors? Even if it's a digital display, I'd think there might be ways of making it match my old-looking wood-grain interior a little better than the modern bright colors. Likewise, if I use a smaller screen I might want it to use vertical bars instead of round gauges, so I can put more information on a small screen. What about using the pro version of TunerStudio that can re-tune my ECU as I drive, could that run on this? Thanks for the great idea, I'll have to start messing with it soon!

I dont whant to do the same but i lurned lot of things, thanks! ☺

awesome thank you

Awesome. lets see it in action now! As soon as you said "wifi" I thought, teamviewer control from my phone, game changer! Also, still waiting on that flat floor video, lol.

Great thanks!!

Legend thank you

I was planning on doing the exact same thing with my miata and try to implement something similar running through OBD in my STI haha

Very cool.

Love the build. I am looking into doing something like this to my RX8 project, but I am wondering if I can run the Tuner Studio dash with a factory ECU or does it need to be running a Megasquirt system. I have searched online and can't find any info. Do you know if that is possible? Cheers

Thanks!!

Thanks ill use this for my Mclaren 720s i'm planning to build the car with a lot of features like in other cars such as Tesla , Nissan Etc. Thanks!

Awesome! How did you interface raspberry with your car? Did you use some app that reads data through the ODB2 port? Cheers mate.

Cool bro

Superb

How quick is the boot time? Did you build something to properly shut down the raspberry pi instead of just a hard power cut? When you go to change tuning in the megasquirt, do you have to unplug the usb from the dash and tune with your laptop, or do you find it efficient enough to change the tune through the raspberry pi? I am in the process of building a turbo 24v swapped e30, and I am loving this idea for the dash.

I liked this vedio.👍👍

So cool

Can you do video on set up on ms3 set up and how it's connected to car

mind blown

And remember.. don't reach through your steering wheel while driving to fiddle with a touch screen. Now install voice interface - the trigger word can be "conveyance".

Have you tried using this at night? I can tell you from first hand experience, the dash is blindingly bright. Have you added brightness controls?

Please make videos on how to get that data of rpm, speed, temperature, etc. and give it to raspberry.

Super cool project! Can I do this with the stock ECU?

Can this be done to any regular car? Nissan Versa 2010 for example? Or does it have to be a racecar? Thank you!! Awesome what those little things can do.

Great video! I have a question, I am going to work on a project to swap out the factory radio into raspberry pi radio, How do i do this? is there a workaround to do this? I have been thinking about it for some time. I have 2017 kia sorento. How do i make everything work such as gps with raspberry pi?

hi, can you let me know if this screen display works with Raspberry pie 4. I am using Raspberry pie 4 model B.

hi i would like to know the best way to have several rasberry pi and control them from home and be able to display my content from my computer to my rasberry pi

I have a Pi 2 model B. Do you think I can use it like you did? I haven't researched the differences between the 2.

nice

Nice

where can i buy this touch screen? and also the other board which was with pi

Great setup easily handled, too bad ALL 7" screens don't work similar

I've been wondering if I can do something like this to my Prius, the stock controls kind of suck.

Great tutorial! I've got an issue. The .sh file does not execute. After opening the file and clicking "execute" nothing happens. Running Pi 3 Model B. Any suggestions are appreciated.

I have been looking on the RS web site, and for the PI3 there are a couple of different choices with different processors,. which model would you recommend? or for about the same I could upgrade to the PI4, with the options available now what would you recommend? also could there be a way to make the outer case somewhat water resistant... and still use the touch screen, this will be on a boat....

When I’m on the pi and go into the directory to to the auto start for the tuner studio I enter this cd ~/.config/lxlession/LXDE-pi And it tells me no such file or directory

Is there an interface for these to use it with a standalone setup like Fi-Tech? Or a way to use universal senders with this?

I have a Factory GM ECU for my 86 Truck LSX swap. Any ideas what software I could run to make it compatible with a OEM ECU?

is this possible with anycar compatible with OBD2?

Hi Sir, Can you please mention the software that you mentioned that we need to put in the SD Card @ 2:00

What about the power issue? For example, I have it hooked up to a 12v to 5v converter thing attached to my car so when I turn off my car so it will turn off the PI as well. Now the issue with that is that when I turn off my car it does not turn off the pi normally, think of it as unplugging the pi from the wall. So basically to turn off the pi properly I need to keep my car on and touch the bottom left of the screen, touch the turn power off and wait till the pi turns off correctly and then shut off the car. Its very annoying. If I shut off my car and not turn off the pi from the button on the bottom left I could risk corrupting the sd card or something because basically its unplugging it. Do you turn off your pc by unplugging it from the wall? Because I dont

Can you use the pi for on/off switches for lights?

Did I miss how it connects to the ecu? Is it through a Bluetooth odb tool?

How does the raspberry pi receive your car's info about the RPM speed ect?

I would to build one for my Honda I run kpro/ hondata... in theory is it possible to just download That software instead of tuner studio and run it that way ? Thanks for the video

Did I miss the part where it actually hooks to the car? Where does it pull its info from?

How does this connect to your car? Once you physically install it, how does it communicate with the car? Is it hard wired? Is there a wireless interface into the ECU?

Does this screen rotate the images if you install in a vertical position?

How are you supplying power?

Cool ✌️

TeamViewer? Why not SSH into the pi or VNC.

I got the same kit and built it exactly the same but my screen isn’t turning on. Lights are flashing and when I connect it to a monitor it works perfectly. Did I just get a bad screen?

hi is there a new update that can just connect via bluetooth without usb from phone to pi ?

How do I wire the pi to my car? are you using usb or a Bluetooth obd2?

How did you connect the MS ecu to the pi? Serial to USB adapter?

Can you use tuner studio to tune a mini Cooper S?

so can i use it to tune any car i have a 02 focus ?

It is recommended to use OLED display panel to effectively solve the display problem in strong light environment.

Can you get the speedometer on there to through megasquirt?

Are you going to run shadowdash on it?

Good

I bought two raspberry pc units, one by accident. I've never worked with this brand before (embarrassed). Instead of returning one, can I use an old laptop screen? Is the ribbon cable the same? I also have battery dead ipads x4. This is for my children to learn about computing and coding. They will primary be doing the work.

I'd like to do this in my 04 a4 b6 would it be the same process and it will still read warning lights right

I was pretty happy to find a fellow Aussie explaining all this, but what happened to the "touchscreen"?