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Re:Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React by joezydeco on Thursday January 12, 2017 @06:17PM (#13387036)
I recently got a Mazda3, their newer MazdaConnect system is running an iMX6 (dual CortexA9 w/GPU and video accelerators) and uses Opera as the interface. All of the core UI is written in Javascript.

It's also highly hackable. =)

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Re:Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React by Matthias247 on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:58AM (#13389441)
That's interesting. I don't know too much about what Mazda uses. Is there any documentation in the web about it?
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Re:Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React by joezydeco on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:18AM (#13391413)
There's a PCB teardown here

http://www.2x4logic.com/mazdaconnect.html

It was designed by Johnson Controls (JCI) but the IVI group was recently sold to Visteon, which probably explains the sudden lack of momentum from Mazda on new features (like, cough, Carplay...which was announced 2 years ago and never showed up).

Most of the people hacking on the unit hang out at mazda3revolution.com. Here's a page indexing their work so far:

http://mazda3revolution.com/forums/2014-mazda-3-skyactiv-aud...

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Re:Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React by zaroth on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:35PM (#13388214)
But how's the lag?
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Re:Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React by joezydeco on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:21AM (#13391444)
The UI is simple, there's nothing swipable by design and animations are minimal. It works quite well.

I don't have the navigation enabled, so I can't speak to how responsive the map display it.

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