Can anyone give me some pointers as to what I should do to my V2 before passing it on to someone else? As in removing my personal info? Anything? Thx
You can also clear out the most important personal information via SMS or with the smartphone apps.
If you are set up to send text messages to your device, there are four interesting commands that set personal information: PASS, MODULE, SERVER and ACC (firmware 2.5.1 or later). See appendix A in the
OVMS Roadster User Guide.
PASS <module_password>
MODULE <ovms_vehicle_id> M SMSIP TR
SERVER 54.197.255.127 <ovms-vehicle-password> -
I'd recommend setting the device password back to the default, OVMS, and clearing the vehicle id, server id and server password.
PASS OVMS
MODULE - M SMSIP TR
SERVER - - -
If you have firmware 2.5.1 or later and have ever set any ACC settings, I'd clear them as they store location information. To do that, send this command.
ACC CLEAR
If you have logging enabled, it possible there's a stored drive or charge record with location information waiting to be sent. That pretty unlikely since if you have a cell connection for texting, you probably also have cellular data and thus shouldn't have any stored record. I'm not sure if there's a good way to check or clear that information. For that, I suggest the smartphone app.
If you have a smartphone app connected to your device, you can use the Parameters screen to reset the module password. Set FEATURE 14 to 0 to clear drive and charge logging (or to 1 if you're passing it to a Roadster v1.5 owner). I believe PARAMETER values 20-23 hold any stored drive or charge records in an encoded format. PARAMETER values 16-19 store any ACC location information.
You can also clear the vehicle ID and server password, but as soon as either of those is messed up, your access to the smartphone app will end. Those are better cleared with text messages.
