Waze and raspberry pi

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Does anyone have Waze running on raspberry pi? I am planning on building a carpc and think that the pi will give me the best bang for my buck. I know that there is an Android flavor for pi so that is my direction. Would like to know if anyone has it running and how stable everything is. Thanks!

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Same here… I installed Marshmallow on my PI3B and Waze on it. It seems like everything is running fine except GPS of course. If I’d continue on this path, I’d probably get a GlobalSet BU-353-S4 USB GPS Receiver which supposedly works with Android. From what I found, to get it working, you’ll have to:

  1. download UsbGPS4Honeycomb_MR1_alpha.apk and install it
  2. Enable “Allow mock locations” by going to Settings->Applications->Development, turn on “Allow mock locations” and select the app.
  3. Connect your GPS receiver via OTG cable or powered USB hub.
  4. Figure out which USB Device the GPS antenna now is in your Android (looks like dev/bus/usb/001/002 etc). The free app ‘USB Device Info’ will help. Look for "Prolific’ in ‘Vendor Name’.
  5. Start USB GPS app and tell it to use that port.
  6. Turn on GPS in USB GPS app. If all is OK you will not see any error messages. The GPS is on now. You can get free apps like GPS Toolbox to see if GPS data is actually flowing.
  7. Start you GPS app… in this case Waze.

But as I haven’t been able to get my 7" eGalax touchscreen running on Android yet, I’ll postpone that - so above steps are untested. An alternative would be to install a Linux on Raspberry but then we’d need a more recent version of Waze for linux. Public sources are 2.x only.
So maybe I’ll have to stick to Linux with another map tool than Waze. :frowning: Or will Waze publish more up2date source code anytime soon? Or publish a Linux version ? (shouldn’t be hard if it works on Android).

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Could you point me at a location where to get Marshmallow for the PI? Any pointers to instruction sites?

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Any progress on this? Interested in doing something similar. Thanks!

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I finally got waze running on my raspberry pi 3b with rtandroid 7.1. I chose this because the (GPS-)hardware should be supported best (a navilock NL8002U and some bluetooth GPS-receiver) and of course I like the challenge :slight_smile:
When I have time I will write some instructions, but there should be enough info online up to the point I am standing at now anyway (what cost me so much time was to find a working resolution for my monitor with HDMI-VGA adapter, because my sony TV didn’t want to display any output from the pi with all possible settings (even after consulting the TV’s manual)).

The only problem is that the map is not displayed, but I am suspecting that it’s a problem with display output or GPS, mock-GPS seems not to work too well either.

The idea is to run a vnc server and connect my phone via wifi in the car, so I can hide the pi somewhere and don’t need a display for the pi, but I haven’t found a working vnc server yet.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.onaips.vnc ist just showing a black screen (but works on my android 4.4.2 cell phone)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.abr.android.avnc.beta ist crashing when I run it

Any help/tips are appreciated.