Thread: Blue Devil Skin RELEASED

1) GooPs allows a picture of your car or cool 3D arrows rather than RREarths placemark icon.

2) GooPs keeps a track of where you have been and the color of the track indicates your speed. You can save the tracks and view them later on a home PC.

3) GooPs allows tracking of multiple vehicles (you can see all your friends on the Google Earth map).

4) GooPs has a very good system of auto-zoom/tilt/icon settings according to speed. If you set Zoom=200ft at 10MPH and Zoom=1000ft at 60MPH, it will auto-calculate appropriate zoom at any MPH between 10-60. You can set more points on the graph as well.

5) GooPs has rotation-stabilization for low speeds to avoid the "helicopter" effect.

6) GooPs does some prediction of GPS location 1/2 a seconds in to the future and sends that to Google Earth so that it does not appear to lag behind your current location.

I could not do the 3 view modes (Chase / Street / Freeway) without GooPs.
I could not do the fly-to/osk stuff without RREarth.

Therefore I am using RREarth with the "center-on-GPS" dissabled, then I just run GooPs in the background and control it using auto-it GooPsScripts (same as your iGScripts). I already have all the functionality done, all I'm having trouble with is using the RREarth buttons in a popup. You don't even have to use a popup for the Blue Devil version if you don't want to, I just want my Chase-View / Street-Vew / Freeway-View / View-Traffic, a speed history track, and my car as the icon (in addition to the existing RREarth functionality).

You could add even more functionality by adding a script to save the GooPs .kml and upload it to a server. Then it would be a GPS-Secure solution as well.

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

I am no electrical engineer, but can certainly give you an idea of what to do. If you already have the 12v lead there when the lights are on thats a good start. You need to get a 12v relay at Radio shack or other supplier. Then follow the diagram for the relay on how to set it up. You will put your 12v and a ground on the 2 input pins. Then when power is supplied to that relay, it will close 2 contacts on the other side of the relay. Then it's just a matter of hooking 2 wires from one of the game pad's buttons and hooking them to the relay. So basically when the relay closes when it gets power, it will close the contact and "Push the button". The next is just to set up the game port plugin, so that when that button is "pressed" it will send a command to RR to dim the screen/switch the skin or whatever other RR command that you want to send.

The relay side of the house I understand, it was the software integration with RR I was a bit fuzzy on. As far as game pad plug in is concerned, are you referring to the one that CDrskul made? I read a thread about it here. It seems like this is easier than I thought. I think I will have my installer install the relay since he will already be there. Now I need to find a cheap USB game pad.......

It's strange that Google has traffic on their mobile maps (http://www.google.com/gmm), but not on regular Google Maps.