Thanks Tom
In fairness, it has been your recent videos that has kicked me up the arse to get this moving again. #Hackerspaceultimatum
Thanks Tom
It's a single din unit, but I think they sent me one with a double din bracket. Easy to modify. It's the same as the Aliexpress ones, but I managed to get it from a German reseller on ebay.rstevens81 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:19 pm Whats the double din Ali radio you used? thinking one of those probably easiest way for me to get battery data available in my conversion
Before I fitted the charge session controller, I just had a simple switch in the boot -flick it to turn on pump and charger, then plug in the evse. Worked fine but was just a bit manual. the simp charge automates life a little. Just need a bit of workaround to spoof the PP. Tom explains it here for anyone lie us using a Gen2 charger.Boxster EV wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:00 pm Great update. Shame about the charger but interested to hear how you resolve it.
I’m leaving my Tesla gen 2 charger permanently powered on (LV) but it’ll kill the battery if not driven for a week. Need to find a solution to send it to sleep when not charging.
Was it squeaky bum time when you plugged in the BMS?Cookie6000 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 12:18 pm Quick update
Been driving the Audi a lot lately. Well, about 100km so far but, it's a lot for it since it hit the road first. Getting used to it's range capability and from a few back and forth to work, it looks to have an approximate range of 80km. Further testing - taking it to 0% SOC, charging to the top and doing the calcs - are to be done next.
All of this of course to be done with the Leaf BMS in place which, as any of you following this build since it's inception, has been the monkey on my back. Well, after multiple changes, tap checks and wiring, it finally went in... without any drama
Pretty happy tbh. Was dreading it but I had triple checked all the taps again and was fairly confident all was well. I spliced in the connector from the PackSniffer 2 also to aid preliminary tests while I wait for another obd adapter that I am promised will work with the unbranded android head unit. Long term plan is to root the unit and put a custom ROM on there, this removing any of this proprietary adapter crap. I can use to connector to hook up to via a can shield to see what's going on via the laptop.
So, there you go... It's really becoming the daily driver I set out to make it. Already thinking about a battery upgrade
Oh yeah, don't mind the 511A... there's a glitch in my wiring to that Leaf current sensor I reckon
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Hands were a bit twitchy yes but, I had cross checked it so many times, it had to be right by now!
To my knowledge, you will need to find a specific custom ROM to your specific HU, I suggest you start searching for possible ROMsCookie6000 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 7:24 am Question to the members - anyone recommend a good custom ROM out there for the head unit when time comes to root it?
Probably a bit late and you may already have something similar but I made up a spreadsheet to show the voltages at every pin on the BMS connectors.Cookie6000 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 7:24 am Hands were a bit twitchy yes but, I had cross checked it so many times, it had to be right by now!
Yep, the android hu is good but, still yet to have it doing what I want it to do.
Question to the members - anyone recommend a good custom ROM out there for the head unit when time comes to root it?
Hm.. i ddont know why i only see this statement now, but better late...Boxster EV wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:00 pm Great update. Shame about the charger but interested to hear how you resolve it.
I’m leaving my Tesla gen 2 charger permanently powered on (LV) but it’ll kill the battery if not driven for a week. Need to find a solution to send it to sleep when not charging.
Thanks Ali. I did the same and have a record of every time I did a pin by pin while I was doing the cell balancing the time I had both packs open to the world so I could check the pins and cell taps. I did some conditional formatting in there too, to give a good visual representation of what's high and what's low. Think all the cross checking this time resulted in the success when plug in time came.
Part of the problem is, its a non branded unit but, I can access the system settings and find out what MCU and CPU types are in there plus all other build specifics... might be a long road but, I'll start with an info gathering process before I start into it
Depending on the extent of what you want to do, the likes of Fully Kiosk or Android Wallpanel might be enough to customise the experience without too much fuss. I have the latter on my KitKat'd HP Touchpad for Home Assistant as it's too slow for the native app.Cookie6000 wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 10:20 am Part of the problem is, its a non branded unit but, I can access the system settings and find out what MCU and CPU types are in there plus all other build specifics... might be a long road but, I'll start with an info gathering process before I start into it
I've been thinking about this recently since I looked into Home Assistant more. It would be a great project to get this integrated to the ZombieVerter. This is a project I'll be looking to start if I ever get my project started.