Hey,
I live in a house with 4 cars that we all use interchangeably. For each car, I’d like to be able to tell two things: It’s approximate location (if it’s home, if someone took one to work, etc, no need for pinpoint accuracy) and how many miles it has left on the tank.
Looking at the integrations here (I haven’t looked at options in HACS or elsewhere), it seems like the Torque integration would be my best bet. However, from what I can tell, there’s a bunch of Torque-compatible adapters, and I’m not sure which one would be the best for me, or if Torque is even the best platform to go. (I have concerns for pairing & syncing multiple)
Does anyone else have multiple cars tracked? What’s the best way to go about this? Thanks.
I have a Bluetooth mp3 player in one car and use the connect and disconnect of the Bluetooth to take the phones gps location and set it to the car device tracker entity.
It works great, but it will only show you where the car is if someone of you moved it, if it’s stolen then the location won’t update.
And it doesn’t give you the tank data.
I’ve replaced the crappy old built in navigation of my 2007 Mazda RX-8 with a 7" Android tablet with built in GPS and LTE internet. Tablet is on 24/7, a little solar panel in the back window ensures no accu drain.
Running HA app on it.
Both ways nice solution. Can follow the car from home and can view my home on the dash.
This could work for at least one of the cars. What’s your mounting solution? I’ve thought about throwing a Kindle in our CR-V before but can’t imagine a non-gerryrigged way to install it.
The 7 incher fits on the place of the original display. I needed to make the hole in the plastic cover just 3mm bigger. Did that with a scalpel knife.
Accompanied with car specific handsfree set plugged directly in to the cars audio I’m even able to use the steering wheels buttons to change music, volume and pickup calls.
And with an OBD2 scanner monitor the engine.