Volumio car audio project

Hello all,

Since a year and half i own a 2007 honda civic with a very few kilometers. I like this car but the integrated stereo system makes my ears bleeds :smiley:

So now i’m looking to improve that with some hifi parts. I don’t care of the radio or gps functions and all of these, i just need some music :sunglasses:

For the parts i will use a RPi (with volumio of course :wink: ) with an audiophonics ES9018K2M dac. It’s pretty compact and full feature. As a power amp i will use two modulus86 (or one 286) amp by neurochrome audio, and some good focal speakers (ES 165K).

For the integration part, i will change my autoradio (honda proprietary) with a 2 DIN front panel :

https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/Double-2-Din-Fascia-Radio-DVD-Stereo-Panel-Dash-Installation-Trim-Kit-Face-Frame-for-Honda/32751674688.html?spm=2114.06010108.3.150.UkOLRt&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10152_10065_10151_10068_10084_10083_10080_10082_10081_10177_10110_10136_10137_10111_10060_10138_10112_10113_10155_10062_10114_10156_10154_10056_10181_10055_10054_10059_10099_10078_10079_10103_10073_10102_10096_10070_10148_10123_10147_10052_10053_10124_10142_10107_10050_10051,searchweb201603_9,ppcSwitch_3&btsid=c7a5876b-713f-4e19-8f77-97119a6a39c9&algo_expid=95e12bf2-7b73-4219-b920-979d188f0ba9-21&algo_pvid=95e12bf2-7b73-4219-b920-979d188f0ba9

The power amp with it’s power supply will go into a 2 din case that also include a RPI compatible 7’ samsung touchscreen :

http://www.ebay.fr/itm/121715033228?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

All this should be pretty easy to put together. I need some work on volumio as the audiophonics dac use it’s own microcontroller to pilot the dac volume control. It needs a serial script to run in “hardware serial mode”, maybe someone have more information.

I’ll also need to a run an xserver with a full screen web browser to run the volumio interface , but it shouldn’t be too hard to do :smiley:

Also in my honda the clock / time and ventilation system are pilot by the autoradio, and display the information with a small screen in the dashboard. It seems that can use a connects2 to replace this function : connects2.co.uk/Product/ProductItem/CTSHO002

Plus the clock / ventilation, it also provide a way to use the steering wheel control with most aftermarket autoradio. I wounder if i can interface this to my RPi to have the volume control and song selection ?
I look for it over the internet but i don’t understand how all of this work. Maybe you have some idea ?

Thank you :smiley: