Hi everybody, I’m new to this so bare with me please.
I’m a controls engineer and am used to working with allen bradley plc’s and hmi’s. I’ve been a controls engineer for 10 years and am fluent with those programming languages. This is my first raspberry pi project though and I’m more or less teaching myself. My project is a computer for my car that controls the heating and air controls as well as some lights I’ve installed and the radio/media too. I’ve gotten the raspberry pi to control everything so far. I’m down to the interface. I’ve been able to create a couple basic GUI’s from some tutorials but nothing significant. I saw something about the chromium kiosk or something like that. Can anybody tell me if the chromium is programmable? Can I add switches and dials to control my relays and outputs? If not, does anybody have any suggestions for interface software? Thank you in advance!
Hi, Chromium is juste a light version of Google Chrome,The kiosk mode is for start in full screen.
You need to programme a website to use it.
If you are just starting out and ok with javascript then I would suggest you have a look at node-red. Its dashboard function is actually pretty ok once you get familiar and you will probably find it good to help integrate some other capabilities
A late reply, I know…I am of the same background as the OP, but on Valmet DCS and some ABB dcs programming.
I am considering doing a solution to run the AutoPI hardware on Automotivr Grade Linux, which already includes some of what you’re after. You can also setup a dev environment and toll your own images, but some basic ones can be downloaded, there are supporting images for Pi3 and Pi4, for example.
Just another idea 
Cheers,
Beano
I’ve anyway ordered the new Gen3 telematics diy board, already received the extra Pi 4b 8gb board. Sure this is going to be heaps of fun doing a build from AGL source and configuring it to run the AutoPI hardware.
Not sure I will succeed, I will anyway have a few basic questions for AutoPI Devs, but I started yesterday by looking at what chips were used on the older AutoPI gen2 hw board, first step would be to roll support for that CAN transceiver into AGL. I would assume the same chip is used on the newer board.
Let’s see, I might open a seperate thread /project discussion for my AGL efforts.
Will keep you posted.