Successful connection on the Model S internal Ethernet network

[Gizmotoy]

Looks like you guys made Jalopnik today: The Tesla Model S Is Basically A Good Looking IT Department On Wheels

 

[andrewket]

You should try xroach. That will freak people out. There are also apps to make the screen slightly rotate, turn into pieces and fall, etc. Old school X11 fun.

 

[rob13572468]

the Ethernet connector is called FAKRA HSD... you cant get them via digikey but if you search ebay you can get them for a few dollars.

 

[LuckyLuke]

And slashdot: http://m.slashdot.org/story/200333
Lots of comments there too.

 

[overlord]

(...)
Today I susscefully connected to this connector, with a 2 row 4 contact male header (2mm pitch)
(...)
These 3 peripheral send of lot of data in broadcast UDP, to 192.168.90.255 broadcat address. Different UDP ports are used depending of data type.

In fact they use the same principle a CAN bus use :

- Everyone send data on the network
- Anyone who need it listen for this data.
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Hello,

Have you checked whether the broadcast data is anything like the RTPS protocol? As its name implies, the RTPS (Real-Time Publish/Subscribe) uses the publish/subscribe interaction model, just like CAN. Unlike CAN, the published data is identified by a named 'topic', instead of a message id.


Cheers,

Mario.

 

[JaredBanyard]

I have also work on both Ethernet and CANBus ... let me know if I can be any help.

 

[yobigd20]

and now Hidden Ethernet port found on Tesla S, used to run Firefox on the car | Apps and Software | Geek.com

and Tesla Owner Hack And Could Jailbreak Model S Touchscreen - Business Insider

and Had To Happen: Hacking Into A Tesla Model S Electric Car



first person to get youtube working wins a prize

 

[jcstp]

seeing "parrotinfo"
and "parrotpowerstate"

reminds me of
Parrot Asteroid Smart - USA

 

[ShadeTree]

Yeah people! This is great. Hack into the car and spread the news!
Can't wait till someone will use that data to break into my car, attach a little electronic box, disable all tracking abilities and drive away!.... Great work! Thanks in advance.

Much like you can do with any other car built after 1995; in fact many of those have no tracking device at all. Though, I am certain that is not the point of this thread. In fact I bet is quite the opposite.

 

[tom66]

seeing "parrotinfo"
and "parrotpowerstate"

reminds me of
Parrot Asteroid Smart - USA

Possibly used for testing the vehicle before all systems had been completely engineered?

 

[markwj]

seeing "parrotinfo"
and "parrotpowerstate"

reminds me of
Parrot Asteroid Smart - USA

Parrot are primarily known for making bluetooth and phone integration stuff. They pretty much rule the market for OEM integrations with this. There were previous discussions that the mobile phone support in Model S was Parrot.

 

[russman]

Parrot is the wifi chip.

Parrot are primarily known for making bluetooth and phone integration stuff. They pretty much rule the market for OEM integrations with this. There were previous discussions that the mobile phone support in Model S was Parrot.

 

[brianstorms]

Anyone know if Tesla's system(s) are vulnerable to the just-announced OpenSSL Heartbleed bug?

 

[disharmony]

Hi,

I haven't had much time to digg further in the Tesla model S internal computer systems or network, however I managed to get a mouse input device working on the 17" dispaly device.

I made a short crappy quality video about to demonstrate it. (Yes it's crappy quality, yes I know about the vertical video syndrome and yes I know you can see my location in the GPS: but I don't care).

I used one of the USB ports for the mouse input. A keyboard doesn't work, altough some keys send "weird" characters and sometimes crash the system.

Also tried holding the shift while booting in the hope to get at the bootloader, holding i to see if we get an "i"nteractive init, pressing esc in the hope to escape the splash screen and ofcourse hitting alt-f<1..12> and ctrl-alt-f<1..12> in the hope to switch the foreground terminal. All without any success....

 

[zwede]

Parrot is the wifi chip.

Correct. I checked the MAC address that the MS uses when connecting to my WIFI network and it decodes as Parrot.

 

[Johan]

Hi,

I haven't had much time to digg further in the Tesla model S internal computer systems or network, however I managed to get a mouse input device working on the 17" dispaly device.

I made a short crappy quality video about to demonstrate it. (Yes it's crappy quality, yes I know about the vertical video syndrome and yes I know you can see my location in the GPS: but I don't care).

I used one of the USB ports for the mouse input. A keyboard doesn't work, altough some keys send "weird" characters and sometimes crash the system.

Also tried holding the shift while booting in the hope to get at the bootloader, holding i to see if we get an "i"nteractive init, pressing esc in the hope to escape the splash screen and ofcourse hitting alt-f<1..12> and ctrl-alt-f<1..12> in the hope to switch the foreground terminal. All without any success....

This has been in the OS since the beginning. According to some reports in the thread below keyboard input worked up until firmware 4.5 but not after that... Someone at Tesla probably thought what you though about the different inputs that could get you "behind" the visual OS during booting etc.

USB Keyboard and Mouse

 

[disharmony]

Hi Johan,

Thank you! I didn't know that, interesting.
However, I am planning to do some more testing next weekend to see if I can send some keystrokes somehow.

 

[Johan]

Hi Johan,

Thank you! I didn't know that, interesting.
However, I am planning to do some more testing next weekend to see if I can send some keystrokes somehow.

Come to think of it, it'd be very interesting to go back in time to try your ideas of sending these key strokes during the boot process. Or if by any chance there are still any cars out there running 4.5?

In general owners have been allowed to keep declining updates, but there are several stories of owners claiming Tesla have forced updates on them.

 

[scott jones]

Anyone else read the entire thread, or most of it just to see if you'd start to understand it? Or maybe you were hoping some of the "smart" would rub off on you? Well I can say, I'm just as stupid as before! I think that 3rd pin or port thingy provides access to the Flux capacitor. If you all find it, let me know so I can go " back in time" to get back the hour I just lost. J/K. Scoop J

 

[anderlan]

Very concerned too. But I only connected to ethernet diagnostic port, and will only read data on this port, will never try to do more, it will not void my warranty

Hehe, the httpd wouldn't have just given you any objects unless you asked for them. That is, there was traffic from your browser to the web server. That's not just listening, that was a conversation.