As promised, here are our final gauge cluster themes. There are two. The primary theme we call viewport.




The secondary theme is called darkwave.



These two themes each have their own personality. The darkwave theme is has a simpler interface with less bells and whistles while still being functional and easy on the eye. To contrast, the viewport theme is built from the ground up for eye candy.

Not shown is our own, rather ugly, diagnostics theme. It shows us all the details about what is happening in the vehicle at any given time. This ability to quickly program in new data on our gauge was extremely helpful while testing our vehicle on the road and on the dynamometer.

All of this functionality links rather nicely to our (also linux based) infotainment center. There we can change themes, view vehicle info, listen to music, and watch movies. Here you can see an example where the infotainment center has notified us of a problem with the vehicle. If you look closely, you can see the notification is overlaid on the theme gauge cluster theme changing interface.