[Ovmsdev] Using the BMW Connecteddrive API from OVMS

[Chris van der Meijden]

Hi Steve,
I've never been to South Africa, but I always enjoy speaking to South
Africans Dutch to Afrikaans. Always fun, the similarities but mostly
the differences garanty smiles :-)
We had the same awake problem on the VW e-Up. That was the reason why I
decided to go the way directly over the CAN Messages on the Komfort-
CAN. Later we start developing the OBD part too and now we brought both
worlds together in one vehicle module.
This approach has the advantage, that we can manipulate the car
directly on the CAN bus (climate remote control, wake up), but also get
the goodies from the system via OBD. Disadvantage is that we need a
more complex wiring and we had to find access to the Komfort-CAN and
had to reverse engineer the Komfort-CAN Message-IDs. 
But we can wake up the car.
Some cars do also have extra "wake up" lines for OBD that can be used
to trigger a wake up. I'm afraid you'll need loads of time of digging
the internet to find the right solution. But it is worth it.
Greetinx
Chris


Am Freitag, den 19.02.2021, 11:58 +0200 schrieb Steve Davies:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I agree that such a thing should be opt-in and
> respect the preference of users like you.
> 
> For me the biggest annoyance is that I can't find a way to wake up
> the car from the OBD2.  So this seems like a way to do it Perhaps
> there is a way and I need to go back to experiments.
> 
> If I can find the number of the SIM somewhere perhaps it would be
> sufficient to send it an SMS in the right structure directly and that
> would be enough to kick the car to life.
> 
> My car indeed is a long way from home but it does love the mild
> climate of Cape Town - never snow, frost and rarely single digit
> temperatures.  I have been in Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dortmund -
> and Germany is a very interesting place.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 10:54, Chris van der Meijden <chris at arachnon.d
> e> wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> > 
> > great job you are doing on the i3 :-)
> > 
> > I would like to suggest to keep a feature using BMW's REST API
> > optional in your module. Ideally as "OPT-IN" from the WebUI.
> > 
> > OVMS users like me use OVMS as a complete replacement for any
> > "calling home" functionallities by the manufacturer. For privacy
> > reasons I don't want to be forced to set up an account at the
> > manufacturer. I think OVMS should best be useable without forcing
> > the user to have to register with the manufacturer (and therefor
> > will be tracked by the manufacturer). If a user decides to do so,
> > no problem. But the module should be able to work without
> > connection to the manufacturer, I believe.
> > 
> > Again, great job you are doing. My neighbor owns an i3. He is
> > thinking about using OVMS now too :-)
> > 
> > Greetinx from Bavaria (50km away from Munich)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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