Anyone interested in an iDrive Arduino project I'm working on?

[warmasice]

Does anyone have a clue what's going on?

:lol: They could be building a bomb big enough to blow a hole the size of Russia out of the world right under our noses and no one’s got a bloody clue it’s happening.....



Seriously though it’s impressive stuff.

 

[Anonymous]

Finally bought myself an Arduino Uno R3 kit this week. Great fun. I've only got as far as making a row of LEDs flash up and down though

 

[IAmOrion]

Finally bought myself an Arduino Uno R3 kit this week. Great fun. I've only got as far as making a row of LEDs flash up and down though

Hey, it's a start

If you need any help give me a shout... I've been doing stuff with Arduinos for a few years now, from 'Hacking' the iDrive, down to making a remote engine start system for me old Saab 93 - I even wrote my own iPhone app!! haha

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[Anonymous]

Finally bought myself an Arduino Uno R3 kit this week. Great fun. I've only got as far as making a row of LEDs flash up and down though

Hey, it's a start

If you need any help give me a shout... I've been doing stuff with Arduinos for a few years now, from 'Hacking' the iDrive, down to making a remote engine start system for me old Saab 93 - I even wrote my own iPhone app!! haha

[youtube]195GDMqZFow[/youtube]

[youtube]qFIqwfsw9Hc[/youtube]

Thanks very much. That's impressive stuff. Always something I've been interested in but never got round to. Fortunately I'm a C# dev so the coding part isn't too much of an issue. I particularly enjoyed the simple nano project you posted a few months back with the chasing led side repeaters. I'd like to start getting familiar with led strips I think!

 

[IAmOrion]

Thanks very much. That's impressive stuff. Always something I've been interested in but never got round to. Fortunately I'm a C# dev so the coding part isn't too much of an issue. I particularly enjoyed the simple nano project you posted a few months back with the chasing led side repeaters. I'd like to start getting familiar with led strips I think!

Oooh, yeah, someone had asked me about replicating the "Phantom" indicators made by Gap Tech. The Nano fits nicely anyways, however the DigiSpark (and it's clone variants) and even smaller and based on the ATTiny85 - and only about £1 each from China (AliExpress) so well worth having some for simple LEDs projects that don't require much coding or fancy patterns ... memory is tight on the ATTiny85 for stuff like simple indicator animations and other simpler stuff they're great

If you like the LED stuff, take a look at my Daft Punk Helmet LED animations I made 8) ...

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[RickRob]

It's my bet that the Forum is unwittingly hosting Chinese plans to hack telecoms - but that couldn't happen could it!!??

 

[Anonymous]

Not sure about that, but I did just make the world's ugliest thermometer

 

[IAmOrion]

Not sure about that, but I did just make the world's ugliest thermometer

Dang!! You should really look into getting an I2C screen (or a cheap I2C board for that 1602 LCD)

Was that with a DHT11 / DHT22 or something else? The DHT22 gives you humidity too

 

[Anonymous]

A simple, trusty thermistor

 

[IAmOrion]

A simple, trusty thermistor

Ahhh, fair enough - I didn't spot it at first, but I see it now lol

 

[zions]

I was trying to retrofit idrive in other car, but i am little bit stuck.
I bought USB-CAN Analyzer from Seedstudio to send/receive can messages on desktop.
By sending 0x130 45 40 21 8F FE with 100kbps baud rate and with interval of 100ms, i can see the lights shows up on controller, but its cycling on and off.
I was trying to send 0x273 1D E1 00 F0 FF 7F DE 04 but i didnt get x277 reply from idrive.
Maybe you can help me with some hint at where i am stuck. Should be CANL pulled to gnd?

Edit: i pulled canl to ground and i can see response messages. but i am always getting 0x5E7 99E1FE0006FFFFFF 0X4E7 6702FEFFFFFFFFFF
as well as response and then shuts down, what are they? Unit is waiting for some response message?

 

[IAmOrion]

Use 0x501 for wake up, and 0x273 for init (and should respond with 0x277)

0x5E7 is a counter, Example: 5E7 8 99 01 0A 05 01 00 00 00 | Data 0: Can ID, Data 1: Data Length, Data 5: Counter, Data 6: Rotary Init-State (6 false, 1 true)

 

[kavpool]

hello IAmOrion, I am massively interested in your project. I want to be able to use the idrive touch controller with my android head unit...which is installed over a ccc unit. Where I start please?

 

[IAmOrion]

hello IAmOrion, I am massively interested in your project. I want to be able to use the idrive touch controller with my android head unit...which is installed over a ccc unit. Where I start please?

Does your vehicle already have an iDrive controller?

 

[kavpool]

yeah i have the cic controller in it.

 

[kavpool]

I am wanting use of the touch controller to use as a mouse for the android screen. and you're from England which is great.

 

[IAmOrion]

I am wanting use of the touch controller to use as a mouse for the android screen. and you're from England which is great.

Yes I’m from England lol.

The problem with my implementation, is it’s specifically designed to work “standalone”. That doesn’t mean it won’t work for you, it just means I have no experience of trying it like that if that makes sense

 

[rogboy]

Hi
I'm using a seed studio canbus adaptor to try and get a Idrive controller to work. Been looking at the code Iamorion used..
Can't seem to get it to work at the moment

Seed studio adaptor has a 120 ohm termination resistor - is this needed?

 

[IAmOrion]

Hi
I'm using a seed studio canbus adaptor to try and get a Idrive controller to work. Been looking at the code Iamorion used..
Can't seem to get it to work at the moment

Seed studio adaptor has a 120 ohm termination resistor - is this needed?

Yes, the 120ohm resistor is needed