alright, my initial plans for this unit is going to be real simple, I'm going to be able to wake my vehicle by calling it from my cell phone, then I will be able to remote into it from anywhere, this is all independent of this board, where this board comes in is as the vehicle interface.
I will remote in to the carpc & access this exe & then be able to press a button on my remote PC connected thru the net & start the car, press another & turn on the interior lights, another to turn XY or Z on, etc... then also have a display of temperature light level, fuel level, whatever...
some of this will be very easy for me to implement, I've been planning something like this already & the way I'm going to do the engine start, door opening & windows & stuff will be directly connecting to a spare RF alarm remote with micro relays, for example to vent the widows is channel 2 for 2 seconds, while a momentary press of the same button, say 500ms, & that opens the side sliding door
I'm guessing this part is straight forward & easy enough, if the addition of servos came down the road that would be a HUGE plus & put this several more notches up there
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where I'm going to get a bit complicated is in the skinning of this, I mean having this run as an exe & embedding it in RR or cf is great & I'm guessing very doable, but having just square buttons on a background image while being functional, would be just boring, what I've got in mind is I'd like to build a nice graphic image of the vehicle on the screen & have hot spots to activate/deactivate things : press the drivers window & it opens, press the steering wheel & it starts, but there also must be a status feedback of some sort, like a way to know & display whether a window is actually open or closed, this data can come from an input I'm guessing, but I'd then like to be able to display this on my graphic
I looked at the skin file & it looks real basic, select the fonts & the images to call, everything else just is as it is...
is there a way to change the position of these buttons? if you could position the buttons where you'd want them, & then have an off, a down & an on state, each calling a part of a different image, this interface would be friggin awesome, could just hide the text even at that point if necissary...
maybe it's hard for me to really have you see what I'm thinking of, but basically picture something like the new Benz display,it displays the vehicle & the status of everything, multiple board support would be awesome here too...
maybe this is something that could be already done with RR? could a skin be built to just send commands to this exe?