Here’s an early demo version of DanteDials for our EV conversion project. It’s a program that shows a custom configurable vehicle instrumentation cluster using a touchscreen. It’s being developed to display electric vehicle CAN bus data. Here we’re using a Raspberry Pi 4 and 4.3″ touchscreen running Raspberry Pi OS.
We used Python 3 and Pygame 2, so it should run on nearly any modern Operating System. With a single configuration file, you can decide how the instrumentation looks and what data is displayed, how many pages there are, and what is on each and every page.
You can check it out in more detail here in out video demo.
Let us know what you think.
Honas
Hello,
I must admit this is a very interesting project, Its been very helpful to me to be able to resolve my problem with back up camera on raspi 4 lineage android OS – thank you for that – and now, even better, to read data from CAN BUS.
As in my car there is a basic HVAC (climate control) display that Im planning to replace for a raspi 4 infotainment system with 7inch touch screen based on lineage android OS with agama launcher and my actual problem is to decode CAN BUS data to show some basic stuff of climate control, radio station etc.
Id like to ask you if any detail info is on the way? Especially reading, “understanding” and then showing the output data from CANBUS? (I have a canbus module for arduino/raspi )
My goal is to have, lets say, smaller OLED display substituting the original one and placing it somewhere else.
evmanic
I’m currently working on installing the electric motor, but once the major conversion stuff is done, I’ll want to add the CAN bus display for displaying battery stats, etc. I’m hoping I’ll be working on that later this summer.