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Old 23-02-2022, 08:06 PM   #660
JasonACT
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Tech Writer: Recognition for the technical writers of AFF - Issue reason: Outstanding work on the FG ICC issues. Technical Contributor: For members who share their technical expertise. - Issue reason: The insane amount of work he has put into the Falcon FG ICC is unbelievable. He has shared everything he has done and made a great deal of it available to us all. He has definitely helped a great deal of us with no personal gains to himself. 
Default Re: FORD technical service bulletin : ICC touch screen display

You do always have to keep in mind, this unit is half a Raspberry Pi Zero (not even a W wireless model) in terms of CPU power, AND also in terms of available RAM. It's basically worse off than the lowest model original Pi. It unfortunately can't do much more than it's already doing, but I do have a VNC remote desktop client working on it.

And I've made a custom USB WiFi adaptor for it:



Which also gives you root terminal access... and it all works, mostly due to a massive work around in what I think is a bug in the WiFi chip, which the manufacturer isn't admitting to.

Even though it works (with the work-around) I'm not promoting their product in any way until they supply more information on the issue - so I can be sure the work-around is totally safe. But it seems that may never happen.

This does let you run a super powerful Pi 4 in our cars, controlled from the touch screen.
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