Where does this wire go?

Today I worked with the guys at openice.org and we found that the elmscan seems to be communicating with the carputer. For some reason though nghost doesn’t think the plugin for it is installed.

I got KDM autoloading and autologing in. And the mouse works fine when I do that.

I’m thinking I have to do something with the udev rules to make sure the elmscan and gps receiver are given unique names so I can always count on a specific name for each. Right now each can turn up as either ttyUSB0 or ttyUSB1 and I have no way of knowing which device is which.

I put the computer in the car and found out the touchscreen drivers weren’t installed in my current install. Then I found out for some reason they are inverted sometimes but not others.

So I’m basically going to have to work on the basic install to get the touchpad working 100% of the time.

I haven’t gotten the elmscan working yet in the system. nghost is reporting that the plugin isn’t installed but it reports seeing it if I look at the command line. Not sure what is up with that. Its just another thing to work on.

I checked the weather (I have a usb wireless card that gets a decent signal back to the router in the house).

I should have, but didn’t, check the music out.

The GPS also didn’t appear working.

So, there is a lot of ironing out of the system, but I think it is going to stay in the car and I’ll fix it in place so it will just get more and more functional as I fix the problems.

Looks like I’ll have lots of stuff to do during lunch breaks.

I’ve had it in the car before, but never actually had it set up to do anything but boot.

Tomorrow I’m going to try to put it in again and see what happens.  This time music and gps and obdii should be working (though I can’t really check obdii until it is in the car.)

Stay tuned.  I hope to have a video and pictures up soon if it works.