I guess I can only speak to the mods I've been using in my car for a few years, which are admittedly less extensive than this. One key difference is that I'm fully emulating the yoke over LIN, so not depending on can injection at all. Because of how LIN works, I expect they will rarely, if ever, update the yoke's internal firmware. Even the responsiveness of the quacking haptics is controlled by VCleft, not the yoke itself. The changes they've made to the haptic responsiveness/controls have all been software changes that don't affect the LIN message format they've been using.
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Work in progress: stalks on 2021 Model S. (and optional round-y wheel)
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I just took my longest drive so far with the wheel and realize that the only big it obscures on the driver display is the often-incorrect speed limit indicator. Win win.
Version 2.0 incoming. Just have to figure out where to mount some scroll wheels.
This is another fantastic, brilliant, and necessary mod! Kudos! Thank you for continuing to share your (very funny) videos and your knowledge. I really appreciate what you're doing.
Okay folks, I know I keep saying I'll share more info, but I'm finally ready to do so. I changed parts and approaches many times, and didn't want a bunch of people to buy things I wouldn't end up using, but here is (probably) the best I can get to w/o a custom PCB (which may or may not happen without my direct involvement anyway).
3x CAN busses (necessary for all features. 2x LIN busses (because we have to MitM the LIN bus in the steering column and emulate the yoke). And a bunch of screw down terminals allowing us to analog read the stalks. Everything powered by a Teensy 4.1. I am still not 100% certain this is the board to use, but it ticks most of the boxes. DO NOT run out and buy this stuff quite yet, please, but know more info is coming now that it does everything I want...
3x CAN busses (necessary for all features. 2x LIN busses (because we have to MitM the LIN bus in the steering column and emulate the yoke). And a bunch of screw down terminals allowing us to analog read the stalks. Everything powered by a Teensy 4.1. I am still not 100% certain this is the board to use, but it ticks most of the boxes. DO NOT run out and buy this stuff quite yet, please, but know more info is coming now that it does everything I want...
Random disconnected thoughts follow:
In another post somewhere you mention MITM the CAN bus which seems a little scary, but if I'm understanding this scheme correctly, you're only (or it's possible to only) getting in the middle for the signals from the stalks themselves, leaving the stock SCCM and wheel stuff alone.
Have you uploaded code to the github page? I wasn't able to find any. As a programmer myself I was very excited to find this would be possible.
I planned to install a custom wheel anyway, one that looks more "luxury vehicle" and less "xbox 360". For me the yoke concept is fine but Tesla's implementation leaves much to be desired. Stalks with custom functions is just icing on the cake, and you demoed the exact feature that I had had in mind- manual controls for the air suspension height. It seems great minds think alike
In another post somewhere you mention MITM the CAN bus which seems a little scary, but if I'm understanding this scheme correctly, you're only (or it's possible to only) getting in the middle for the signals from the stalks themselves, leaving the stock SCCM and wheel stuff alone.
Have you uploaded code to the github page? I wasn't able to find any. As a programmer myself I was very excited to find this would be possible.
I planned to install a custom wheel anyway, one that looks more "luxury vehicle" and less "xbox 360". For me the yoke concept is fine but Tesla's implementation leaves much to be desired. Stalks with custom functions is just icing on the cake, and you demoed the exact feature that I had had in mind- manual controls for the air suspension height. It seems great minds think alike
Some functions of the SCCM are LIN based and others are CAN based. Depending on what features you want to customize it may be one or the other.
Here is a tangentially interesting video ... my steering wheel was used in Blake Fuller's car for the Mt. Washington Hill Climb
Quick fun one folks: I’m pretty sure I have figured out why pushing left or right on the right thumbwheel doesn’t do anything, and if my theory is correct, it never will do anything. And it all comes down to Tesla making some big mistakes in pursuit of an offset rectangular steering apparatus.
Stay tuned for lulz.
Stay tuned for lulz.
emiliorescigno
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He really hit the nail on the head. The yoke is really, really cool, and... well, that's about it. I am confident that I will enjoy it on highway drives, and be mildly annoyed by it on my daily city use, especially because I do a ton of backing into parking spots multiple times a day. If I can flip back and forth between a wheel and yoke very easily, I may just use the yoke for my long trips."I don't not hate the yoke."
A+++
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