I got the idea originally because I mounted the touchscreen for my car pc in the same space where I had my concealed display. In the process of getting it to work, I came up with other ideas, as well as got suggestions from other people interested.
As far as what it can do that the CD can't: Custom sounds: If you want, you can put in your own sounds for each of the alert types, and you can control how they change as the signal gets stronger. You can also do visible only or audible only alerts. Custom skins: Change the way it looks, which is pretty important for the CarPC crowd (that and a lot of V1 users think it is ugly and dated looking). Also, you can integrate the skin into your "legal" car pc functions, and make it less obvious to a LEO that you are using a RD. Logging: Keep track of what kind of alerts happen when, and with a GPS, where. With this info you could do smart filtering of the signal, or generate data for a speed trap database.
All that, and just because I could, and because it is a cool thing to add to my car pc.
The V1 Virtual display is a project to allow the capture and display of the alert data from the Valentine OneĀ® Radar Locator from Valentine Research Inc. The software runs on a computer attached to the Valentine One Remote Display port. It is designed first and foremost for use in a CarPC.
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hi there, i'm wondering what exactly this is useful for? why not just get the remote display? i'm just curious, thanks.
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Anonymous, at 2:57 PM
I got the idea originally because I mounted the touchscreen for my car pc in the same space where I had my concealed display. In the process of getting it to work, I came up with other ideas, as well as got suggestions from other people interested.
As far as what it can do that the CD can't:
Custom sounds: If you want, you can put in your own sounds for each of the alert types, and you can control how they change as the signal gets stronger. You can also do visible only or audible only alerts.
Custom skins: Change the way it looks, which is pretty important for the CarPC crowd (that and a lot of V1 users think it is ugly and dated looking). Also, you can integrate the skin into your "legal" car pc functions, and make it less obvious to a LEO that you are using a RD.
Logging: Keep track of what kind of alerts happen when, and with a GPS, where. With this info you could do smart filtering of the signal, or generate data for a speed trap database.
All that, and just because I could, and because it is a cool thing to add to my car pc.
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dolphin, at 9:54 AM
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