OVMS team,
As an owner of a Fiat 500e I was very interested when I stumbled across
this project on the TMC forums. The Fiat factory
telematics system deactivates 3 years from the original vehicle sale and is non
renewable. I think FCA wants to kill the whole system at this point (it's been
replaced with the corporate UConnect system) so another solution would be ideal.
I have a 2013 500e with deactivated telematics, and
our roommate has a 2014 with working telematics. If any data could be captured
from the car with working telematics (branded as Fiat Access) to assist integrating OVMS I'd love to help.
The Fiat Access
telematics provides vehicle location, battery level, tire pressure, setting the
charge schedules, locking / unlocking the car, and starting the climate control.
I believe the actual control unit was adapted from some kind of
remote-disablement system used in europe (the Fiat literature calls this the
Vehicle Tracking Module).
The Fiat
has a normal J1962 plug, but does not have OBDII protocol support. Like the Kia
Soul the powertrain CAN on pin 6 / 14 and the body CAN on 1 / 9.
There's no telling how long the telematics
will keep working on our roommates '14, so doing a capture sooner than later
would be good. I'm open to any suggestions on how best to do this. The car
related diag tools I have on hand are: ELM327 Bluetooth, Ross-Tech VCDS (For VW
/ Audi Products), and AlfaOBD (which can talk to most of the modules in the 500e
- but not the VTM :( ), and an adapter to swap the CAN wires so a standard
interface can get to the Body CAN.
Thanks!
-J