heinzboehmer's 2002 Topaz 6MT Coupe

[heinzboehmer]

My apologies - I somehow managed to completely miss this and thought it was just the files shared in the Google Drive.

Oh, the link was a very recent silent addition

Was always intending on sharing, but didn't want to do so before landing on a final design. Figured it would be easy for people to make copies of it and end up referencing an out of date file.

[t3ddftw]

Feature works great and t3ddftw's codebase is a breath of fresh air compared to some of the stuff I get to interact with on a day to day basis. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the BlueBus is by far the most polished product I've ever installed on my car. Love it.

Thanks for the kind words, Heinz! Software is my background, so that has helped with the code quality, haha. I really do need to sit down and break out a lot of these huge files (handler(s) / ibus.c) into their own files, though, because they are absolutely unwieldy,

One man, maybe two man, show. As you well know the less people that touch a codebase the better, and more consistent, its going to be (well in most cases).

One Man, but I have had contributions to the code! I am a bit of an ass about it as I will accept the code, but then refactor it until it follows the same paradigms as the rest of the code base before merging it in.

And he's a true enthusiast who is building a full conversion M3 touring. 😎

That project is so stalled right now. I think I am going to take a couple days off work and just strip it to a bare shell so I can finally get the ball rolling. Your CF roof is sitting in my basement still

Totally fair. The BlueBus has (2) limitations IMO, and neither of those are Ted's fault.

1. The factory mic is just not great, so phone calls just aren't as good as aftermarket systems (even with aftermarket mics in the factory location).
2. CarPlay/Android Auto, if you need/want that feature you have no option but to look at something else, but I thought I recalled seeing him post that he is working on a CP option?

1. I honestly need to do more work to dial in the microphone quality. Interestingly the G-series Mic (84108794736) is a plug and play replacement in terms of wiring, and it performs pretty well on calls while at speed (using a 7dB Mic Gain value). The only problem is it doesn't directly slot in place, so I need to design an adapter plate.

2. Yes, I am working on this, but it would be for factory Nav cars. At this time, the hardware WAS done, but then Texas Instruments EOL'd a part of the BOM. I need to rework this part of the circuit and then lay out the PCB once and for all.

I did, however, recently come upon some screens that could be used to replace the really crappy 16:9 TFT, so maybeeeeeeeeee I could start selling 16:9 retrofit kits with upgraded screens, Carplay / AA, Bluetooth, etc.

Now, Claude is all over me now days and I can't get that bastard to shut up

My boss at my day job is all over us to embrace the slop and I can't bring myself to use it for anything other than debugging or writing one-time-use scripts that I know I will never need to debug. Yuck.
I have toyed around with the idea (which was suggested to me by someone else) of having Claude write unit tests for the BlueBus firmware.. Certainly some tests will be better than none.

T
Anyway, the real question is what to do with this newfound capability. I'm thinking that displaying the current gear might be a good starting point. My Gauge.S already calculates that, so just need to figure out how to get the info from it to the BlueBus and should be good to go.

Do you have access to the Gauge.S source code? Sorek and I spoke about forwarding Gauge.S values to the BlueBus by emulating factory diagnostics. Essentially, the Gauge.S would send a D-Bus packet to a module on the I-Bus (such as Japanese Nav; 0xBB) and that packet would contain data for the BlueBus to be able to display to the user. I haven't had the time to make this materialize though

Thanks!
-Ted