Heads Up Display (HUD) - Hansshow

[webbah]

@webbah, that new Hansshow unit looks like a much better execution. It's too bad you had to speak to them "at length" to get them to do something but at least it's sorted out. Hopefully you didn't pay more than the retail to retail price difference.

At $699 pre-sale price that's a significant amount of money for this unit and it would seem inconvenient and potentially dangerous to reach for the touch screen behind the steering wheel. I wonder if they will be responsible enough to lock the ability to stream video when the car is in motion otherwise another huge opportunity for misuse leading to accidents.

I hope so. I've missed CarPlay a lot so this sold me on it. And the fact that it is now fully OTA upgradeable gives me confidence that no matter what future updates Tesla does if it breaks something with after market display functionality they can resolve it fairly quickly without a hardware replacement. In the end I ended up paying just shy of the presale price all in. They did send me some additional details about app functionality, etc, but I promised not to disclose until they can do so via a follow up YouTube video which should come out soon. I'm pretty excited for the unit though. They sent me a V1 unit after the HUD issue and this V2 unit will be the final production ready display (I hope).

 

[israndy]

Upgrades won't help you if Tesla decides to encrypt the canbus

 

[JWardell]

I had the issue with the HUD and then spoke with them at length. I finally agreed to pay a small "upgrade" amount to get the new v2 display that is currently being finalized that supports CarPlay, Android Auto, and is OTA upgradeable. Here's the link to the demo:

Should have mine by 2nd to 3rd week of January.

Carplay! That's very nice. But it's now a full blown Android tablet. Why not just mount your own tablet to your dash?

 

[webbah]

Upgrades won't help you if Tesla decides to encrypt the canbus

You'd have to resort to using the api instead which would have some delays and miss some functionality, but then that would make all of these devices worthless for the most part.

 

[webbah]

Carplay! That's very nice. But it's now a full blown Android tablet. Why not just mount your own tablet to your dash?

I don't know about you, but I'm not crafty enough to make it look close to OEM with that mount that is nearly identical to the main screen mount and also doubt I could find a tablet screen with those dimensions, but to each his own!

 

[tlr1000]

Although I don't like having the vents blocked I bet if they manufactured a mounting system for a tablet that had the same look as the Hansshow screen, it would sell well. Probably would fetch $100.

 

[c615586]

Hannshow is sending me a new board to install into the original HUD so it will be compatible again. Supposed to arrive next week. Will report back.

 

[BikerPeaBody]

is there anything similar to this, but maybe $500 cheaper?

 

[bpobill]

@webbah, that new Hansshow unit looks like a much better execution. It's too bad you had to speak to them "at length" to get them to do something but at least it's sorted out. Hopefully you didn't pay more than the retail to retail price difference.

At $699 pre-sale price that's a significant amount of money for this unit and it would seem inconvenient and potentially dangerous to reach for the touch screen behind the steering wheel. I wonder if they will be responsible enough to lock the ability to stream video when the car is in motion otherwise another huge opportunity for misuse leading to accidents.

Thats a terrible idea. For that price I would want to do whatever I want with it. Ive done a few of these aftermarket android systems in previous cars and you have the ability to stream video while moving.

 

[tlr1000]

Thats a terrible idea. For that price I would want to do whatever I want with it. Ive done a few of these aftermarket android systems in previous cars and you have the ability to stream video while moving.

Having streaming video while moving is definitely a novelty and could be entertaining for passengers as long as the driver is focused on driving rather than watching YouTube videos. Since this screen is mounted in a place really only useful for the driver it's one of those things some buyers might want for themselves but likely don't want people driving around them with the same feature. If Hansshow decides to let people stream video while driving, they may not be in business after the first accident but that's up to them.

 

[bpobill]

Having streaming video while moving is definitely a novelty and could be entertaining for passengers as long as the driver is focused on driving rather than watching YouTube videos. Since this screen is mounted in a place really only useful for the driver it's one of those things some buyers might want for themselves but likely don't want people driving around them with the same feature. If Hansshow decides to let people stream video while driving, they may not be in business after the first accident but that's up to them.

They are based out of China, nobody will be coming after them. Its an Android tablet, you can do anything you want with it, including streaming video. These chinese made aftermarket systems pretty much all allow it. The few I bought did, no bypass needed. Back in the day pioneer, sony, kenwood systems would not allow dvd in motion but those were easily defeated. (I did car audio back in the day).

You know what else allows videos while driving? Cell phones!!!! Distracted driving with cell phones is magnitudes more dangerous than the very small number of people using a system like this. You are making mountains out of molehills.

 

[c615586]

The V2 HUD looks really interesting. I wonder how CarPlay works in the M3... does it stream music/nav through the car speakers or through the internal speaker of the HUD?

 

[c615586]

is there anything similar to this, but maybe $500 cheaper?

Agree... I think $200-300 is the sweet spot for an "intelligent" HUD that connects to the canbus/OBD2 for extra info.

 

[c615586]

It looks like the ThinSGO people are selling the old gen Hannshow screen for $500 on Amazon.

LINK

 

[c615586]

Was watching the Hansshow youtube video again and noticed that there's a Porsche logo on the bottom left corner of the screen.

I recently installed a Joyeauto PCU board and computer that runs Apple CarPlay or Android Auto in my Porsche 991.1 and a similar logo shows up on the screen when in CarPlay mode. Pushing it turns off CarPlay and bounces the unit back to native PCM mode.

I am very confused as to why the logo shows up on a device built for Tesla.

 

[c615586]

Received the new board and a handy pry tool from Hannshow today. Will try to install it in the next day or so.

 

[JWardell]

Received the new board and a handy pry tool from Hannshow today. Will try to install it in the next day or so.View attachment 621964

Interesting. Does the connector on the bottom right go to the wire harness? Looks like a mini USB connector but also looks to have CAN transceiver. Also interesting is unpopulated JDY-08 bluetooth transceiver. Perhaps for future versions to pair with phone, or wireless accessories.

 

[KenC]

Received the new board and a handy pry tool from Hannshow today. Will try to install it in the next day or so.View attachment 621964

Reprogramming your dog?

 

[c615586]

Did the install this evening and drove around the block to test. I am not familiar with this stuff but the new board (on the right) is obviously much more complex. They added a micro usb port at the lower right corner. Not sure why since this port isn't easily accessed with the board in the HUD, but maybe it is for future software updates. The HUD is powered through the mini usb port at the upper right side of the board.

Everything is working as it should with the exception of the time display--It's 4 hours off from the car's time display. I sent a message to Hannshow to ask about that.

Overall, very happy with the HUD again and really pleased with Hannshow's customer service. It took a couple of months but they made everything right. This bodes well for the buyers of the new, bigger displays I think.

 

[c615586]

Reprogramming your dog?

Ha! She is resistant to most attempts at programing.