Dashboards and Tiles

Dashboards and tiles

Your dashboards, in a cross

              [ up 2 ]
              [ up 1 ]
 [ left ]    [ HOME ]    [ right ]
              [ down 1 ]
              [ down 2 ]

New installs start with three dashboards in a row: Home and the two beside it. The ones above and below are filled only when you ask, up to seven in all. Swiping only goes through the dashboards you have; a sideways swipe off the home row shows the way back instead of jumping. Each is a free 12 × 7 grid (7 × 12 on an upright screen). Status: daily use.

• The bar always shows which dashboard you are on; tap it to see them all.
• All at once: the Dashboards button in edit mode (or the bar's position) shows every dashboard in its place in the cross, as a small picture of its tiles. Tap one to go to it, + on a free spot adds an empty one there, the red − removes one at once and Undo brings it back with its tiles and name. While the car moves it only switches dashboards.
• New dashboard (edit bar): pick its name and spot; it comes on screen.
• While arranging, tap a dashboard's name to rename, move or remove it. Remove dashboard… asks whether to empty it or take it out of the swipes with its tiles; Undo brings them back.

Status of the overview and the three-in-a-row start: emulator-tested, new on 2026-10-08.

Arranging

• ⋮ → Edit dashboards, or hold an empty spot, turns arranging on. Drag a tile to move it (other tiles move out of the way or swap); drag its corner bracket to resize (a w×h pill shows the size).
• Tap a tile while arranging to open the tile panel (on the driver's side): the design shelf with live previews, text size, a mini cross to move the tile to another dashboard (you stay where you are, with a chip to follow it), and Remove. Tiles that have settings of their own open them from the panel too: the LPG tank, servicing, places, the car's specs, the car picture, the AI mechanic, speed correction, the phone, and whether the car speaks speed cameras, speed limits and weather warnings.
• Add opens the add sheet with two lists, Widgets (each previewed live) and Apps; each app offers Icon or In a tile (see Apps on the Dashboard). It marks what needs an adapter, the phone or internet, and what is already on a dashboard. On a full dashboard it says so and offers the nearest one with room; a widget takes the largest size that fits.
• No adapter, no dead car tiles: car tiles are offered when an adapter is first chosen.
• 30 steps of undo, Android widgets included. Layouts are saved as JSON and survive restarts.
• Upright units with firmware bars (a shortcut bar on top, a climate bar at the bottom): menus stay inside the dashboard, above those bars; the first menu measures where the screen really puts it.
• Drive lock: arranging, settings and pickers wait until the car has stopped.

Tour of the basics

After the first setup, six tips over your own dashboard light up the real buttons: changing dashboard, moving and resizing tiles, adding things, the look, the OBD adapter, the steering-wheel buttons. Replay: Settings → System → About → Tour of the basics.

Templates

⋮ → Templates opens a full-screen showroom. Each set is shown on your own screen with its real tiles: Home in the middle, the dashboards beside it turned away on either side.

• Swipe, use the arrows or tap a card to try another set: Daily (map, Home and Work, music), Road trip, Car health, Calm (the map and your speed, nothing else).
• How far it reaches: Home, Home and beside it, or All seven. A set only changes the dashboards it has (Calm leaves the ones above and below alone).
• Use puts it on at once, laid out for your screen with the main tiles on the driver's side. No "replace?" question: Undo stays on the dashboard for 15 seconds instead.
• An empty dashboard's own Fill offers the same showroom for that dashboard alone.

Status: emulator-tested, new on 2026-10-11.

Moments: Home follows the drive

Home can change by itself to fit the moment of the drive; the dashboards beside it stay as they are. Off until you turn it on: Settings → Driving → Moments (or the Moments button in Templates), Switch by itself.

Moment	Starts	Ends	Home shows
Engine on	When the engine starts	When the car sets off (10 min at most)	Fuel, weather, the day ahead, Home and Work
Guiding	When Maps, Waze or the built-in map guides	When the route ends	The map and the next turn up front, music
Long drive (off by default)	After an hour at the wheel, short stops included	When you park	Range, fuel stops and a break
Parked	After a drive, 2 min stopped	When the car sets off	Car health and messages
Something is wrong	When a new fault code shows, at any time	After 5 min, or the Home key	The fault code and the engine readings

• A fault comes first, then the route, then the rest. A moment beginning brings Home on screen.
• Never under your finger: a moment waits 8 s after you last touched the screen, and while a menu, a sheet or arranging is open.
• Back to your own Home: the small chip in Home's corner, or the Home key while on Home; it stays yours until the next moment.
• Each moment has its own switch. Change what it shows gives it a copy of one of your dashboards (apps in windows and system widgets stay where they are), or its own Home back.
• Moments leave Home alone while an app runs in a window or inside a tile there (Waze in a tile, say): moving it would stop the app.

Status: emulator-tested with the demo drive, new on 2026-10-11.

Canvas and tabs

The Canvas theme puts a full-bleed map behind glass tiles, with a journey strip at the top (next turn, ETA, rain, break, sunset, fuel on arrival):

• Under the dashboard (Settings → Look, with Canvas): the built-in map, or Google Maps / Waze (needs PMPatch3, see Root and PMPatch3).
• Side rail and tabs are choices in Settings → Look → Show all settings, for every look: Side rail instead of the bottom bar puts the bar's buttons down the driver's side, Tabs instead of swiping picks one dashboard at a time from the rail. Tabs show by themselves when a map app is under the dashboards; touches between tiles reach the map.
• The dashboard bar (rail, or the Dashboard bar widget in other themes) holds your dashboards and apps; add or rename dashboards from it.
• Auto-switch: a dashboard can open by itself when parked, when driving, when navigation starts, when the fuel gets low, or on a new engine fault. Parked comes up only after a drive, once the car has stood still for a while; the launcher always starts on Home.

Status: emulator-tested; first car report fixed rail taps.

Upright screens

Settings → System → Screen: Auto / Horizontal / Vertical. Auto reads the display's real shape. Upright screens get their own 7 × 12 layouts, and the Maps dock sits on top or at the bottom. Each screen direction keeps one arrangement: moving Google Maps left or right no longer makes a second copy of your dashboards. Status: emulator only.

The bar

The same bar sits under every look: Apps, Layout, the clock, the dashboard you are on, OBD and the ⋮ menu, with labels on wide screens. Layout holds Google Maps left or right, or another app beside the dashboards. The ⋮ menu keeps the frequent actions: Edit dashboards, Templates, Quiet, Settings. A long press beside the bar's buttons opens the bar's own settings: auto-hide, what it shows, side rail and tabs.

Split screen

While Dashwheel shares the screen with another app, pages switch to a stacked, scrolling layout.