Crankshaft = Raspberry Pi 💖 Android Auto

Crankshaft is a turn-key distribution for the Raspberry Pi. It transforms your Raspberry Pi to an Android Auto headunit thanks to the power of OpenAuto and aasdk.

This is the source code repository, just in case you want to build the system yourself. To get the binary without dealing with all this stuff, please head to GetCrankshaft.com. There you can find guides and videos too.

Known problems

For some reason, Crankshaft is giving error #2 when connecting with many phones (does not connect to Android Auto). If you actually compile OpenAuto with X11, it will work. For now the only phone I have verified to work is Google Pixel 1. Please be patient if Crankshaft does not work yet for you. Next alpha version will hopefully be able to address this problem.

Does it work for you?

If you have a chance to try it, please spend a minute to report back at Hardware Compatibility List.

Want to report a problem?

To file a bug or an enhancement idea, please file an issue on this repository.

To help us help you, before reporting problems to this repository, I would appreciate if you could compile OpenAuto with X11 and run it the official way per OpenAuto's instructions. To make the distribution easier and lightweight, I have opted to run OpenAuto under EGL instead of relying on X11. When you only observe the problem with Crankshaft and not with OpenAuto, should you file a bug request here.

For bugs or ideas related to OpenAuto or aasdk, please go to f1xpl's corresponding repository to file a bug report. If you file a bug request there, please make sure that you follow the instructions to compile it with X11 and not with EGL.

How to build a Crankshaft image

This repository provides a skeleton for you to build your own Crankshaft image, but it doesn't have all the binary blobs that are the result of the build process. When you supply all the three, you should be able to call sudo ./make-crankshaft.sh and it will build the img file for you.

There are three missing binary blobs in the precompiled directory:

• libQt5_OpenGLES2.tar.xz: Qt5 library compiled with Raspberry Pi OpenGL ES2 library.
• autoapp: OpenAuto binary
• libaasdk.so: aasdk binary

Please head to the Wiki for instruction how to build each of the component yourself.