[Ovmsdev] new member interested in Kia Soul EV preheating

Tue Jun 29 02:05:11 HKT 2021

Hi Kyle,

I’m the one who made most of the Kia Soul-part of OVMS. I’m not active anymore as I seldom go for long trips with the Soul and therefore don’t need to use the OVMS regularly. A lot has changed in almost seven years 🙂 

The only way I can think of that might work to get the commands for remote heating, is to have someone with UVO-access to scan the CAN buses while turning on and of remote heating. Unfortunately I couldn't find any one able to do that.
I’ve got a diagnostic tool that can control the different parts of the HVAC, so I did sample some of the commands, but in the end I didn’t use them as I didn’t dare to mess with the HVAC manually.

Regarding the 12V-draining that Henrik mentions, waking up the in-car CAN bus systems is needed to read the state of anything when the cars is off, like the door-locks, if I recall correctly. Otherwise OVMS would be completely silent and «useless» when the car is off. I don’t know if any one has found another way around it.

Best regards,
Geir

> 28. jun. 2021 kl. 11:44 skrev Henrik Scheel <henrik.scheel at spjeldager.dk>:
> 
> Hello Kyle.
> 
>> I'm interested in trying to get some sort of pre-heating going in the Soul.
>> The story coming to mind:
>> 
>> - As a driver, I'd like to be able to tell my Soul to start warming itself
>> up while connected to an EVSE, so that when I leave the house in ~30
>> minutes I'll have a warm car and won't have to spend my precious 180km of
>> range (who are we kidding, 150 in winter) on that.
>> 
>> It'd be nice to do this in the OVMS Android app somehow, but that's
>> negotiable.
>> 
>>> From stalking this forum and Kia SOUL EV forums, people have figured out
>> lots of things about the Soul but not this yet somehow?
> 
> Remote pre-heating has been the wet dream for Soul EV tinkerers since 2014, none succeeding by using only the usual CAN-bus, or the other CAN-bus available in the Soul OBD-II connector, to my knowledge. It might not be possible. 
> 
> The best shot I can think of, is to record all CAN activity on all busses, while a certified KIA garage performs a full diagnostic examination of the heating system. And then start digging in the heaps of data. I don’t know if anyone has attempted this already.
> 
> See discussion:
> https://www.mykiasoulev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=135
> And gathered info on PIDs:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YYlZ-IcTQlz-LzaYkHO-7a4SFM8QYs2BGNXiSU5_EwI/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> I am the current maintainer of the Soul EV Spy android app, so I know a little about the Soul EV CAN bus messaging. Feel free to ask, and/or find inspiration in the code avaliable for the old, free version of the app here:
> https://github.com/langemand/SoulEVSpy
> 
> I stopped using OVMS in the Soul, because the maintainer of the Soul car module coded it, so that under certain conditions it wakes up the in-car CAN bus systems regularly, leading to an AUX battery drained to 5 Volts, and a car that cannot start (or even unlock). I don’t know if that has been improved since then.
> 
> I am open to sharing PID and other information, so just write me directly, if you want: soulspy at evranger.com
> 
> Best regards,
> Henrik
> -- 
> Venlig hilsen / best regards 
> Henrik Scheel
> Mobil: +45 2720 9828 
> 
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