andy_mac wrote:Cheers for the help so far man.
Nexus 7 is probably the safest bet then. Would have liked to find something with a thinner bezel/bigger screen but from the ones currently available nothing fits the gap between the vents quite as well.
Once it's in, I find the screen is plenty big enough, ie: it's not small to look at, even at night. Sure, a bigger screen would be nicer, but there's always the option to upgrade to a better Nexus tablet down the track as they make them.
andy_mac wrote:One thing i did hear was the Nexus screens are polarized for portrait viewing so once you go landscape you won't be able to see the screen with polarized glasses. Any truth to this?
That is indeed correct. If you are offside with sunnies on, the screen is completely black. If you are straight-on, you can see it, but it's still slightly darkened. Turn your head 90 degrees and it all comes clear, or just take the sunnies off.
andy_mac wrote:One more question, then i think i've got a solid plan. By using USB as the connection to the HU am I losing the USB OTG ability for external storage or could that still work with a hub. Not sure how the HU would deal with seeing 2 media sources either.
Connect the tablet to a USB hub, but only have the data lines go to it and have the power lines from that cable connected to the power supply rather than the hub (there's no reason why it can't be powered from the hub, but best to have pure uninterrupted dedicated power from the PSU - just use a good quality OTG Y-Cable or make your own). Now connect all your USB devices to the hub. Timur's ROM forces the kernel to go into Fast Charge mode whilst keeping OTG enabled. Normally Fast Charge mode disables OTG mode because the data lines would be shorted.
Have everything controlled by the tablet and only have the headunit deal with the tablet's media audio and the phone's call audio. Don't have it do anything else (other than other independent sources like Tuner, CD, Aux, etc). If you want to have a USB port to connect a random USB stick for music/video, mount a cabin-facing USB port somewhere on the console and have it connect to the tablet via the hub instead and then use an appropriate app to play/view the contents of your USB stick.
I was going to procrastinate, but I put it off...