Headless Waze on a Raspberry Pi?

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Morning all,

Have been running Waze since day 1, love the community angle… :slight_smile:

I usualy ahve Waze running on my Pixel in the car (love sharing data back to the comunity), but I’d like to look at minimum hardware requriements to run Waze on a standalone device?

Idead being, make a small device that does ONE thing - run Waze, and output alerts etc over audio only - so no screen.

To be exact, I just want it to output speed camera warnings, though I guess the other Waze “alerts” would be useful too.

Ideally, something like the Rpi Zero - but I see Android Things officially supports only the 3b, I can live with that…

So…

  • wouldnt need a screen, could write settings / preferences to the Image at config time. Output over audio only - BT’d into my car audio.

  • barebones OS, would only need to run Waze, BT and Wifi - no other apps or purpose

  • GPS; not quite sure how to do this yet, but will obvs need an external GPS etc

So - initial thoughts; creating a Waze speed camera alert device, that can also feedback to the network, but without all the overheads of trying to do anything else; a “Standalone Waze Device”.

What do we think?

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The raspberry pi would be more expensive than a second hand phone.

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I agree with HostaSpeedy that a secondary phone could come at a very cheap cost and you could just get the data from a hotspot on your existing phone. The raspberry pi should be able to do it, but you’re going to tie up a lot of time and effort into developing your code to run it properly (I think). It would be an interesting project though for sure.