Thread: Vehicle Maintenence Plugin

Originally Posted by spamminator

I've been thinking about a similar thing!

You could combine this with the notifications from (I think) RRExtended and pop up reminders when you need to get an oil change, etc.

Are you calculating the distance based on the GPS coordinates every minute or so?

Edit: just re-read your post and seems that's exactly what you had in mind... In either case, this would be a welcome addition to RR, I think.

i've been calculating once per second as thats the frequency the gps updates its position.

Here's a screenshot of my maintenance plugin i threw some time into today. in this example i set my oil change interval to 5 miles. the content in the message box is pulled from an .ini file thats formatted like so.

Code:

/USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS
/<ITEM#>=<NAME>,<MILEAGE INTERVAL>,<TIME INTERVAL (DAYS)>,<COST(WITHOUT'$')>,<NOTES>
Maintenance1=Oil Change;5;180;17.50;Use 5W-30
Maintenance2=Air Filter;12000;360;12.00;Check cabin filter

You can see at the top of the shot the total distance is 5.97 miles traveling, thus i got a warning letting me know i was .9 over my oil change interval. Once complete, the plugin will allow you to add maintenance items at runtime and view each item in list form. Selecting an item in list will show you the details from the ini along with handy labels for distance to interval, last "change" date, and time remaining.

Originally Posted by ingtvis

an other idea is to use the distance calculation for a tripmaster
i have a tripmaster in my car now which i use with 4x4 trips
it can measure 4 different distances
totall of the day
totall of the trip
totall between two waypoints
and one to spare
and they can be set zero with one touch on a button

i tried to use milage but somehow i cant get it running
i like the idea that the tripmaster is integrated in the computer
it will clean up my dashboard
and it is easyer to get external sigals trigger one of the meters
i tried with milage to let one counter automaticly count the kilometers driven in 4x4 by using the signal of the 4x4 light in the dashboard

already calculating trip distance... dont see why waypoint calculator cant be added with a command to set waypoint A and B

Originally Posted by BusterGroove

This is great. Add a tire rotation reminder too! Ultimately, some nice little oil-can and tire icons in the skin that turn red or blink when it is time for service.

You set the reminders you wish to use as well as the intervals. At this point it accepts up to 50 maintence items and that is easily expandable. what i can do is have each maintenance item have an indicator with 3 user-definable images...good, warning, and exceeded that will be based on the intervals current status. Sorta the same way i did the traffic details plugin forever ago for you old bodies

went ahead and changed the thread title to where this is going. Here's a screenshot of the plugin in action with its full capability.



the icons next to the list items are a quick view status indicator for each maintenance item. The screen shot indicates its very close to time to change my oil. This is based on the fact that the time remaining label is 0 days and the oil change interval displayed is 1 day(if time interval is less than 80% of number of days counted the orange alert occurs). If it were tomorrow the icon next to Oil Change would change to a red one indicating it need be changed NOW! There will also be a popup skin that will show once daily if the status is orange or red. Popup will give you the option to snooze the warning for a day, or tell the plugin the oil change is done... thus resetting the time remaining and mileage remaining.

The way point feature is not shown in use but its working. Basically you hit the "Add Point" button then the waypoint mileage starts tracking. Hitting the add point button again stops the tracker and saves the resulting mileage to an .ini file for later retrieval. Hitting the button a third time starts the process all over

Last thing for me to do is add the ability to add items from within RR. This will require multiple OSK popups but in the end it'll be easier than opening the .ini everytime u want to change something.