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Velleman k8055 IO Card Plugin - Centrafuse 4.x / 3.x (1542 Downloads)





With the k8055 IO Card Plugin for the CarPC Software Centrafuse you can merge your Car with your CarPC seamless
You can control any electric of your car and also connect your Wheel Remote, check if the Reverse Gear is put in (Automatic switching to your Rearcamera), control your Lights, ...


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Which Hardware is needed?


You only need a Velleman k8055 IO Board (sometimes also called VM110)










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Features


The k8055 Plugin gives you many cool features:

  • Control up to 4 Velleman k8055 IO Cards
  • Control Digital & Analog Outputs (e.g. Control every Electronic in your Car - Lights, Doors, ...)
  • See Digital & Analog Inputs
  • Create Events (e.g. Next Track, Mute, Shortcut, Shutdown, ...) when a Digital Input toggles - Lets you connect a ground switching Wheel Remote, check if the Reverse Gear is active, check if your doors are closed, and many more
  • Input Data is available through the CFData Interface
  • Auto Connect
  • Reset Outputs on Close
  • Control it with the LogoDashboard Plugin
  • Digital and analog outputs can be automatically set to adjustable values on startup or on resume from hibernation (since version 1.3.3)


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The Event Editor


The most impressive function of the k8055 Plugin is the Event Editor.
You can set Actions which will be made when one of the Digital or Analog Inputs Fires.
So you could add an Action: "Next Track" when you press the button on your Wheel Remote.

Action List:
  • Next Track - Previouse Track - Volume Up - Volume Down - Mute - Play / Pause
  • Hibernate - Restart - Shutdown - Dim Screen
  • Open any plugin - Open DVD Menu - Main Menu - ...
  • User defined Keystrokes (e.g. Strg + Alt + I)
  • ...


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Service


Use the discussion board for free and without registration!

There you can exchange opinions, submit suggestions or discuss problems.
Link to the Board







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Installation


The Installation is as simple and comfortable as it could be. Because of that the plugin is supplied with a typical Windows Installer, which only needs the Path to your Centrafuse Installation.












Changelog:


  • 1.0.0.0
    • First Release
  • 1.2.1.0
    • Events can now be created for Analog Inputs
    • Shortcuts in Events can now be set via buttons so you dont need a keyboard in the car
    • Sometimes the k8055 failed to initialize (fixed)
  • 1.2.2.0
    • Fixed: Analog Events repeated until the input value changed. (Now the plugin checks if the new value is in range of +/- 5 of the old value. If not the event is fired)
    • Fixed: Ok Button in Analog Shortcut Menu didn’t work
  • 1.2.4.0
    • Fixed: Digital Input Events didn’t worked
    • New Feature: You can now create up to 4 Skin Pages so you can better customize your skin to fit your requirement. Back and Forward Buttons let you switch between your pages.
  • 1.2.6.0
    • As requested the min max values of an analog event are now equals greater and equals smaller, so you can use zero as a value
    • You can now also show any of your plugins if an event fires. (So you could open your rearview plugin if the reverse gear is put in)
  • 1.2.6.1
    • As requested on the german Centrafuse board you can now add math formula to calculate real datatypes from the Analog Input Values. You can also specify the decimal places and the datatype string which should be added in front or at the end of the value.
  • 1.2.7.0
    • Add actions for the event: Digital Input fires OFF
    • Added "switchback". Can be used to switchback to the Screen you were before. Used for Rearcamera
  • 1.2.8
    • CF3.5 Compatibility Update
  • 1.2.9
    • Fixed bug in CF3.5 installer
  • 1.3.0
    • Added DelayOnResume Feature
    • Added k8055doc to the installer
  • 1.3.2
    • Added plugin_command feature to support my LogoDashboard Plugin
  • 1.3.3
    • Added StartupStatus Feature
  • 1.4.0
    • You can now activate Voice recognition
    • You can now activate or deactivate digital outputs with your k8055 when an input triggers
    • The Entries in the Events manager are now translated with the strings from the language file
    • Open Plugin and activate/deactivate digital output will show the pluginname / the output number in the events manager now
    • As requested the "xmlnsi, xsd ... stuff" from the events.xml is now removed. Just the clean xml file. Was a ugly workaround because it seems to be a bug, but it works.
    • If an digital input triggered off the event was executed too often sometimes
    • Edit Menu didnt opened in some case
  • 1.4.1
    • Fixed a bug with plugin_data readout
    • Added AOUT and AINxFORMULA to plugin_data readout