BlueBus: A fully integrated A2DP Bluetooth solution

[jet_dogg]

Got my shipping confirm, thanks Ted.

[t3ddftw]

Honestly I wasn't paying enough attention to guarantee 100% that nothing happened when it "crashed". Definitely not a call coming in, I don't think I'd activated the blinkers, and I'm pretty sure there was no song change.

As I said, the only notable thing is that it's happened twice, shortly after starting the car. Seems to be random too, it worked flawlessly on my way to work this morning and yet crashed on the way home this afternoon.

I'll try to pull the trap counters this weekend. Silly question: I can do this anytime, right? No need for the incident to have happened minutes before?

Thanks!

Yeah, trap catches are stored on the EEPROM so you can pull them at any time, in or out of the vehicle.

Thanks!
-Ted

[Der_Spanier]

Weird -- Sounds like it has crashed and restarted. Did this correlate with anything happening, like a song change or a call coming in?

If you could, try to pull the trap counters via the terminals -- the command is: get err

Thanks!
-Ted

Honestly I wasn't paying enough attention to guarantee 100% that nothing happened when it "crashed". Definitely not a call coming in, I don't think I'd activated the blinkers, and I'm pretty sure there was no song change.

As I said, the only notable thing is that it's happened twice, shortly after starting the car. Seems to be random too, it worked flawlessly on my way to work this morning and yet crashed on the way home this afternoon.

I'll try to pull the trap counters this weekend. Silly question: I can do this anytime, right? No need for the incident to have happened minutes before?

Thanks!

[t3ddftw]

Hi everyone, long time since I last posted...

I updated my Bluebus from version 1.1.17 to 1.1.18 on Sunday. Since then I've had the same issue twice: I hop in the car, the Bluebus connects to my iPhone as usual and starts playing music. I set off, and after 2 or 3 minutes (the time it takes to leave the garage and stop at the first traffic light) the radio switches to FM and the Bluebus is no longer detected. OT blinkers are also gone.

I carry on driving and after another 3 or 4 minutes the Bluebus starts working again and all functionality is restored. Everything works fine for the rest of the trip.

It's only happened twice since Sunday. Otherwise it just works as it should. Afraid I couldn't get a log since I was driving at the time.

For reference, I drive a euro-spec '03 E46 Touring with an Alpine CD53 radio.

Weird -- Sounds like it has crashed and restarted. Did this correlate with anything happening, like a song change or a call coming in?

If you could, try to pull the trap counters via the terminals -- the command is: get err

Thanks!
-Ted

[Der_Spanier]

Hi everyone, long time since I last posted...

I updated my Bluebus from version 1.1.17 to 1.1.18 on Sunday. Since then I've had the same issue twice: I hop in the car, the Bluebus connects to my iPhone as usual and starts playing music. I set off, and after 2 or 3 minutes (the time it takes to leave the garage and stop at the first traffic light) the radio switches to FM and the Bluebus is no longer detected. OT blinkers are also gone.

I carry on driving and after another 3 or 4 minutes the Bluebus starts working again and all functionality is restored. Everything works fine for the rest of the trip.

It's only happened twice since Sunday. Otherwise it just works as it should. Afraid I couldn't get a log since I was driving at the time.

For reference, I drive a euro-spec '03 E46 Touring with an Alpine CD53 radio.

[Jimm3]

Anybody here who has the bluebus looking to sell it? Long shot but thought I'd put it out there. DM if you do!

[Mattn1192]

Hey guys,

Some announcements:

Firmware 1.1.18 is live: https://www.bluebus.dev/software

If you ordered from ECS Tuning before August 31st, your unit will ship Tuesday.

If you ordered from me before August 28th, your order will ship sometime next week, towards the beginning of the week.

Thanks!
-Ted

Ordered mine June 1st. ECS has it shipping Nov.19th. Have no doubt it’d be worth it.

[t3ddftw]

Ted, is the Z4 same as CD53, or those are different tech?

It's a CD53 but it's made by Siemens rather than Alpine. There are definite software differences but it was built to the same specs as the Alpine CD53.

-Ted

[maupineda]

The same changes for the CD53 apply to it. There's no extra functionality that I can bring to the CD54, unfortunately.

-Ted

Ted, is the Z4 same as CD53, or those are different tech?

[t3ddftw]

I'm curious how the new firmware works with cd54?

The same changes for the CD53 apply to it. There's no extra functionality that I can bring to the CD54, unfortunately.

-Ted

[Andy2424]

I'm curious how the new firmware works with cd54?

[t3ddftw]

Ted, any news on having the comfort unlock to open the hatch on the Z4 as well? It has been lingering for over a year now

No. One of the fellows that has contributed to the code side of the project is working on emulating the central unlock button for Comfort Lock/Unlock, and that will resolve it.

-Ted

[maupineda]

Ted, any news on having the comfort unlock to open the hatch on the Z4 as well? It has been lingering for over a year now

[t3ddftw]

[/LIST]Yeeees. Super excited for the telephone volume offset feature lol

Thanks Ted!

I'm very interested for someone with a ZCP to test this, btw. I don't know how the radio is going to respond, since the MFL won't have announced itself on the bus before then.

My own ZCP has Navigation, so it's a moot feature :/

-Ted

[heinzboehmer]

Firmware 1.1.18 is live: https://www.bluebus.dev/software

CD53

• Fix inability to set comfort locks
• Add comfort unlock
• Fix potential non-null terminated string when creating metadata
• Allow Bluetooth usage when vehicle is off but radio is manually turned on
• Add additional settings [Comfort Unlock, Telephone volume offset, Lower Volume on Reverse]
• Only show values when editing a setting
• Enhance verbiage of settings
• Emulate MFL to allow automatic volume scaling for calls for CD53 vehicles (to prevent calls from being too quiet)

Yeeees. Super excited for the telephone volume offset feature lol

Thanks Ted!