ID6 Custom Apps

[WaveZero]

I saw someone post this on Facebook and thought it looked pretty interesting.

Facebook post:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JWTV4jg2h/

GitHub:
https://github.com/inotbarnacle/ID6_apps_prerelease

Seems pretty promising. Has anyone tried this on a Supra yet?

If this is opening the door to running custom apps and accessing more of the ID6/iDrive interfaces, it also makes me wonder what else could eventually be done with it.

For example, could someone potentially develop proper Waze or Google Maps navigation guidance for the HUD? Even just getting turn-by-turn arrows and distance information into the factory HUD would be really useful.

There are already projects doing similar things with newer BMW iDrive systems, so it would be pretty cool if something similar ends up being possible on the Supra's ID6/NBT Evo setup.

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[nanaisu]

We already have turn by turn navigation in hud w/ AA.

 

[razorlab]

Has anyone tried this on a Supra yet?

That is literally... a Supra.

 

[nanaisu]

That is literally... a Supra.

lmao, I thought the same thing too but didn't have the heart to tell him (or energy to edit the message).

For anyone who wants a working link to the Github repo:
https://github.com/inotbarnacle/ID6_apps_prerelease

 

[WaveZero]

We already have turn by turn navigation in hud w/ AA.

I would love to see it working for Carplay users too!

 

[WaveZero]

That is literally... a Supra.

Ahaha sorry! My bad! I saw it on Facebook and posted this using my mobile phone as I'm still overseas.

 

[WaveZero]

lmao, I thought the same thing too but didn't have the heart to tell him (or energy to edit the message).

For anyone who wants a working link to the Github repo:
https://github.com/inotbarnacle/ID6_apps_prerelease

Thanks, fixed the link!

 

[nanaisu]

I would love to see it working for Carplay users too!

not impossible, just much harder. Since we have full control over Android Auto, we can pull navigation data. If BMW didn't make those channels available, or easily accessible to feed to the HUD, it's going to make it a bit harder to implement. Not impossible, good development just doesn't make things version dependent.
I don't have an iPhone, so it's not something I can really work on.

 

[WaveZero]

not impossible, just much harder. Since we have full control over Android Auto, we can pull navigation data. If BMW didn't make those channels available, or easily accessible to feed to the HUD, it's going to make it a bit harder to implement. Not impossible, good development just doesn't make things version dependent.
I don't have an iPhone, so it's not something I can really work on.

I saw that iDrive 7/8 had a way to display waze / google maps navigation on the HUD using one of the MGU apps. And I'm pretty sure I saw someone develop a proxy HUD app that pulled data from AA and Carplay to display on the HUD.

 

[WaveZero]

not impossible, just much harder. Since we have full control over Android Auto, we can pull navigation data. If BMW didn't make those channels available, or easily accessible to feed to the HUD, it's going to make it a bit harder to implement. Not impossible, good development just doesn't make things version dependent.
I don't have an iPhone, so it's not something I can really work on.

I think it might be possible for CarPlay. A workaround is having a companion app on your iphone to read the navigation data from Waze or the live notification of the turn-by-turn navigation on the phone itself and stream it over to a proxy server on the head unit's Linux server to spoof the BMW navigation turn-by-turn messages so the HUD thinks it's from the inbuilt navigation system itself. Just food for thought. I will investigate next month when I get back from my overseas trip.

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