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so those crappy chrome strips along our doors and dash should have looked like this if we had been delivered a feature that was sold with the car

Fantastic. That is a next level solution. You could trigger when only in DRIVE or whatever. These small uC units are tons of fun to play with. How do you watch the canbus signals ? If on a scope, what bandwidth scope is needed as minimum ? @taekua how are you powering the Arduino ? Buck...

I have a Nano ESP32 coming and it looks like it is supported by the BLE library. Love the ultra small footprint. I am a minimalist ! Roger that on the front floor seats. Now that we sourced the connectors from Amazon it took away any grief over extending wires or using other types of lights.

These small controllers are incredible. Back in the day I started with BASIC Stamps and PIC chips. What one can get for $ 30 bucks now is more powerful than the computer on the lunar lander :cool:

Do you think any Arduino would be OKAY IE the NANO ? I would think so but want to confirm.... again, I love the project. I am a Raspberry Pi addict and love coding Python for various home automation or aviation related projects for displaying weather on maps etc. This is the most complex but...

There is a major grounding bolt/point on the passenger side just inside the footwell at the lower forward part of the drivers door. My first SRS fault was repaired by a Ranger cleaning that up.

Do you have a volt/ohm meter that you can use to ohm out (continuity checker) between the pins and the wires ? I think you know what pins you need. You just have to map it to the wire colors being used on the connector. Like the RGB wiring colors we are working around with these various...

I love the project. I used one of these boards a few years ago to add Z-wave compatibility to a Raspberry Pi I use for supervisory/control of my home generator. So easy to program. Once you finalize your code would you share ? This is not that complex to do and we may even be able to put a...

The problem with these links as they take you to an overall page. Is it the true 'splitter' product that would plug in to the ODB port and then a tech could plug a reader into one 'pigtail' and you would take power from the other ? So my testing is only related to tapping power off the...

Tesla put a LOT of engineering into controlling those lights. There are multiple modes to those lights. - door open / on full / ambient light button does nothing - door closed / on full / ambient light button works - car in drive or reverse / lights dim based on daylight / ambient light...

100%. You can use the ODB hot to trigger the coil on a relay. BE CAREFUL ! as relays are usually 12 and 24 volts so check the range to make sure the 16 volts we have in the car will not burn out the coil That being said (and I am going to test this today) I purchased a solid state relay that...

What pin(s) will you use on the ODB ?

WHY the Ambient Light control on the screen won't (easily) work ! Hi folks, based on the reports of light dimming and relays buzzing, I had a few minutes to pull the cap off the rear console and hook a scope up to the ambient light there. As I suspected, the lighting is controlled with a PWM...

It's a gratifying project but I would not do someone else's car for any money...... a weekend off is worth WAY more !

No worries. I was looking for other solutions as I was concerned the one you posted would do exactly that. I did end up getting the sock and also a new cabinet filter and am going to take a run at Tesla to replace my HEPA as well. I have read about people spraying a bleach/water mix on them...