My nexus 7 install is showing it's age so I'm looking into the newer 4gb units that are starting to show up. I used a joycon to connect my steering wheel controls to my tablet via usb and was able to use a keyboard remapper and tasker to get some really custom buttons. The newer joycon (http://www.rcjoycon.com/cpjexc/)also has Can-bus and rotary encoder support so I could potentially add a physical volume knob or fit my car with an idrive knob for even more control.
The Joycon registers as a keyboard but I was able to keep the on screen keyboard too in android 6. Does anyone know if a joycon works with most android headunits?
Thanks!
"Joycon" didn't turn up anything in search and the next closest thread was this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...idrive-style-controller-android-head-t3697530
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Hi!
I have 7" Erisin ES7841U ,PX5,4BB ram
Im looking for some remote control knob style BMW/Mercedes like this one from the link below.
Unfortunately this one from the link dont work. i send it back to amazone. Also i try to use small usb touch pad but dont work. When i connetc the mouse is Ok,but if i connect the touch pod..isn't working
Any one to have idea from where i can find some knob like that one from the first link?
Also in my stearing wheel conntrol i have only vol + - and next + -. I need button "mode" to swich between radio,music player,video. Any idea for app wich will give me options for more buttons?
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i-save remote control know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLx_VH1ZBOQ&t=16s
Touchpad + 7" Erisin ES7841U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhtNXCGBVRA&t=3s
Hello, I'm new to the forum and new to missing Android products in general. I have searched and seen that people have had issues attempting using external USB Volume knobs, but have also seen that there may be workarounds.
I am currently waiting on my unit to arrive, and before installing in my 93 F150 I plan to crack it open to install 2 30mm fans and a heatsink (I live in the Southeastern US and do not have working a/c in the truck at this time so I need as much cooling as I can get) I would like to add a volume knob, seeing as with how old the truck is, it obviously does not have steering wheel controls, and I don't want to have to fumble around with the touchscreen while driving. I know that they have a Bluetooth remote that wraps aroubd the steering wheel, but I do not like the design of it and that its battery powered.
I have no issues rotting the device in order to use a USB knob (after I check to make sure it is able to be rooted) as I planned to root it anyways, but I just wanted to see if there has been success with the USB knob with this particular unit
Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance
Most units support steering wheel controls, and you can get remote devices that connect to those. That would be the way I would go if I had a unit without a volume knob. Just search aliexpress for "steering wheel control" and you'll see what I mean
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velocity4 said:
Most units support steering wheel controls, and you can get remote devices that connect to those. That would be the way I would go if I had a unit without a volume knob. Just search aliexpress for "steering wheel control" and you'll see what I mean
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The problem with thosw is that they are either OE replacements for vehicles (my truck didn't come with these back in 1993 lol) or are wireless bluetooth. Problem with Bluetooth is that I have to worry about battery life (or wire up a circuit to power them) and have to worry about lag. Not to mention that they look funny unless you use a steering wheel cover. At that point, I'd probably swap a steering wheel with factory controls from another model and attempt to get the joying unit to recognize it as such through their factory steering wheel control integration, but this, again, would require making custom circuits and hoping it all integrates properly, as well as not looking too out of place.
With a USB knob, I could drill a hole and mount it behind the gauge surround and have it right within reach while driving.
I gueas I'm just odd and super picky about my stuff lol
Did you manage to get the USB volume knob to work with HU? Thinking about doing the same.
I have a Seicane (Chinese-made) head unit with no hardware buttons. It has 2 USB ports that I can use to connect hardware to it. I'm looking for a keyboard/keypad that I can either attach through USB, or connect through Bluetooth to the phone. They already sell round "media" remote controls that connect to the phone through bluetooth. I don't need that because I get media controls already using the steering wheel controls.
I want to be able to navigate android auto without having to touch the screen, so ideally I would like a "d-pad" (up, down, left, right) that connects through USB.
I've looked, and the closest thing I find is a numeric keyboard, it's full size, so fixing it somewhere in the car could be difficult.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
Hello all,
I'm having trouble finding a solution to this, not sure if this is where to ask but its worth a shot. I have an Intel Airmont Joying head unit, the one with physical buttons. Its running android 8.1 I believe. I use apple carplay through Zlink. I also use joyings universal steering wheel controls add-on since I dont have built in ones (I cant post links yet but google those exact words to find it, its a circle lookin thing) . I'd like to be able to map it to Zlinks controls (siri, left, right,home, etc), but I'm unable to. Under Joyings built in steering wheel controls mapper I can map it to universal play/pause etc for the head unit itself, but when I enter the Zlink control learning they dont work. Any ideas what to do? Apologies if that was confusing, I can clarify if needed. Thanks!
Update: 10th Feb 2021
Got the zbox2 working with all my steering wheel controls including voice button mapped to siri.
Basically i decompiled the apk and intercept certain key-codes and changed them to the key-code zbox2 needs to trigger Siri.
Basic Steps:
1) Decompile with apktool / jadx-gui
2) Change mainActivity methods onKeyDown & onKeyUp so if keycode 86 is pressed it's substituted for keycode 1500.
When i get time i'm going to try and map the mode steering wheel button to cycle through maps, nowplaying etc which should be possible.
Context First:
i've got a px6 unit running android 9 with a canbus decoder in my mk2 audi tt.
The unit came without carplay and i've used various carplay dongles over the years and had a wireless carlinkit dongle from a previous car so decided to use that.
However using the autokit app for the carlinkit dongle i've always had audio delays on phone calls of around 2 seconds so you end up talking over each other. this is both with my current and previous head units. The dongle firmware and software is up to date using the built in updater.
Autokit works great i even managed to map all steering wheel buttons inc siri for use in Autokit its just the audio delay problem.
In regards to trying to solve my audio delay problem i bought a zbox z2 wireless carplay dongle which uses the zbox app http://www.zjinnova.com/article-34185-44239.html and the audio delay is almost not noticable basically at the level of a normal carkit.
The problem is that all the steering wheel controls work out of the box apart from siri as the zbox app has no facility to remap keys like in the autokit app (see bottom of post). Zbox only recognises the standard android media keys.
In summary i need some help?
Q: Anyone had audio delay issues on carlinkit for phone call and found a solution?
(my carlinkit dongle is from when they first released them a few years ago, i did think a newer hardware revision might help).
Q: Anyone with a zbox 2 manage to get steering wheel controls working for Siri?
Zbox 2 what ive tried so far:
Decompiled zbox 2 apk to find that it does listen to a few custom keycode events
1500 - open siri
1504 - open map
1505 - open phone
1507 - open now playing
Issued keycode event over adb while zbox is open and siri does activate.
adb shell input keyevent 1500
using tasker and autoinput together to try and grab the key that is mapped to the voice button (stop button see autokit belor for why). unsuccessful - the key doesnt get grabbed by tasker.
used tasker and media button state of stop key to then issue a shell command to send keyevent - unsucessful the key does get grabbed and issues the command but siri does not activate in the zbox app. maybe becuase i'm not root ?
next steps:
Asking for help on here?
Look at modifiying mtcd tools to send custom keyevent for siri as this does recognise the steering wheel keys being pressed but is currently limited to only send keyevents for android media keycodes.
How to map steering wheel keys in Autokit for Siri:
in wheelkeystudy app set steering wheel voice command button to stop button, needs to be these as then autokit can recongnise it.
in autokit goto advanced settings and go into key learning and the voice command button will be able to be mapped.
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Context First:
i've got a px6 unit running android 9 with a canbus decoder in my mk2 audi tt.
The unit came without carplay and i've used various carplay dongles over the years and had a wireless carlinkit dongle from a previous car so decided to use that.
However using the autokit app for the carlinkit dongle i've always had audio delays on phone calls of around 2 seconds so you end up talking over each other. this is both with my current and previous head units. The dongle firmware and software is up to date using the built in updater.
Autokit works great i even managed to map all steering wheel buttons inc siri for use in Autokit its just the audio delay problem.
In regards to trying to solve my audio delay problem i bought a zbox z2 wireless carplay dongle which uses the zbox app http://www.zjinnova.com/article-34185-44239.html and the audio delay is almost not noticable basically at the level of a normal carkit.
The problem is that all the steering wheel controls work out of the box apart from siri as the zbox app has no facility to remap keys like in the autokit app (see bottom of post). Zbox only recognises the standard android media keys.
In summary i need some help?
Q: Anyone had audio delay issues on carlinkit for phone call and found a solution?
(my carlinkit dongle is from when they first released them a few years ago, i did think a newer hardware revision might help).
Q: Anyone with a zbox 2 manage to get steering wheel controls working for Siri?
Zbox 2 what ive tried so far:
Decompiled zbox 2 apk to find that it does listen to a few custom keycode events
1500 - open siri
1504 - open map
1505 - open phone
1507 - open now playing
Issued keycode event over adb while zbox is open and siri does activate.
adb shell input keyevent 1500
using tasker and autoinput together to try and grab the key that is mapped to the voice button (stop button see autokit belor for why). unsuccessful - the key doesnt get grabbed by tasker.
used tasker and media button state of stop key to then issue a shell command to send keyevent - unsucessful the key does get grabbed and issues the command but siri does not activate in the zbox app. maybe becuase i'm not root ?
next steps:
Asking for help on here?
Look at modifiying mtcd tools to send custom keyevent for siri as this does recognise the steering wheel keys being pressed but is currently limited to only send keyevents for android media keycodes.
How to map steering wheel keys in Autokit for Siri:
in wheelkeystudy app set steering wheel voice command button to stop button, needs to be these as then autokit can recongnise it.
in autokit goto advanced settings and go into key learning and the voice command button will be able to be mapped.
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I'm curious about the autokit app Siri mapping. I'm using a Yulu 9853i Android head unit, so a little different. I'm having a hard time getting Siri to work with SWC voice button. The built in wireless Zlink works with SWC voice button, but zlink doesn't like to start everytime. So I am trying a USB dongle that has Autokit. Which I was trying to figure out if I touch the siri button on head unit, then activate the SWC button twice like it says etc. But nothing happens. I had a feeling the button is being reserved by another app or the head unit voice software. Sounds like you figured that out? Did auto kit recognize it right away after setting to stop button? Or have to reinstall Autokit app? I don't think I have a stop button on my F150 steering wheel. TIA!
load97 said:
I'm curious about the autokit app Siri mapping. I'm using a Yulu 9853i Android head unit, so a little different. I'm having a hard time getting Siri to work with SWC voice button. The built in wireless Zlink works with SWC voice button, but zlink doesn't like to start everytime. So I am trying a USB dongle that has Autokit. Which I was trying to figure out if I touch the siri button on head unit, then activate the SWC button twice like it says etc. But nothing happens. I had a feeling the button is being reserved by another app or the head unit voice software. Sounds like you figured that out? Did auto kit recognize it right away after setting to stop button? Or have to reinstall Autokit app? I don't think I have a stop button on my F150 steering wheel. TIA!
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i didnt need to reinstall autokit theres a possibility your head unit maps swc buttons in android differently then mine. although if you have sucessfully mapped the stop button to your steering wheel controls if you go into any music player app and music is playing it should stop the music.
all i did was as stated below:
How to map steering wheel keys in Autokit for Siri:
in wheelkeystudy app set steering wheel voice command button to stop button, needs to be these as then autokit can recongnise it.
in autokit goto advanced settings and go into key learning and the voice command button will be able to be mapped.