Budget friendly digital dash may be possible

[WolfMxbee]

I've been wanting to do a digital dash in my 19' ecoboost base, I did the premium cluster plug and play and changed coding to activate mycolor, but now I want digital dash and lots of you liked my S650 Door panel thread, I've been researching and found an app on Google that's called realdash that you can make custom gauge faces and put custom symbols and gauges and all is very customizable, you can even connect it to a obd2 port for the data or a canbus module, so ever sensor and symbol or gauge you can have it find certain data to show on command, plus it'll make the gauge work theoretically with the steering wheel controls and all be touch screen, someone has made a S550 digital interface on the app that you do have to buy however I found a 12.3 screen that is android powered then can use this app as a interface, should I test this and make it usable? It'll delete the need to get a clockspring and new steering controls but requires the digital bezel still, I took a screenshot of the gauge on my app and will link the screen I may plan on using if you guys want me to try it

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1959936044...xZZ5byWSBu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
I would however need someone's help that understand canbus, I'm good with electrical but need someone to help decode canbus in these S550s to see what lines of coding activates what features

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[WolfMxbee]

It's a little difficult to work the app and edit and change pretty much anything on here but once you play with it, it gets easy, I also found this that works for our S550s but has anyone used one
https://catalog.pac-audio.com/catalog/can-integration/cp1-s

 

[shogun32]

first, you're doing this wrong. You're supposed to just glue the tablet to the top of your dash.

second, the OBD port also has CANBUS pins. Look at the ForScan site for recommended dongles that do both. You'll probably want to go that route.

 

[SnowFox]

This is interesting. I like the idea of digital cluster and gauges on my base GT. But at current costs I don't like it that much.

I've also been trying to daddble around potential solutions. But haven't applied much effort yet

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