This works way better than I had expected, and it doesnt look too out of place in the age of displays popping out of dashes.

It remembers last playing track and you can set a couple of the apps to auto start playing again a well. The only manual intervention at the moment is to start casting to the chromecast, but it's 2 easy button presses for casting and a quick flick on the Phone to tethering screen.

Sitting in the office


Car Launcher in the office by Hilton, on Flickr


The App Launcher that I forgot to show in the video. You press the Apps button bottom right. You can also set it to hide Apps you dont want to see in the car and it has an unhide button. (the eye in top left on the Apps screen)

Car Launcher in the office by Hilton, on Flickr


There is no Car Battery drain when in Standby.
The DAC is plugged into the cigarette lighter and has it's own onboard battery and switches off automatically when the ignition is turned off. (there's a 2 hour idle delay timer so it doesn't turn off and on when jumping out to get petrol or do a shop - the DAC battery is good for 8 hours so it's never a problem, it always automatically turns on and recharges the next time you turn the car on)

The Chromecast is also connected to the cigarette lighter and just turns on and off with ignition- it pairs into the network in less than 30 secs.

The tablet will last hours on it's own massive battery in the bottom spine (a full day at least)