heinzboehmer's 2002 Topaz 6MT Coupe

[heinzboehmer]

Milestone!



And of course something had to break. Fortunately it was just the clock adjuster. Instead of doing the sensible thing and fixing the cluster, I decided to write a bit of code and have the car's time auto sync to GPS.

I've configured Gauge.S to send the GPS time out as part of its D/I Bus relay packet. On (electrical) cold start, the BlueBus will wait until it sees a valid time (in reality waiting for the GPS to lock), then set it. Works great!

Setting the timezone and DST is kinda clunky with the CD53, but it works just fine. If I'm bored one day, I might add latitude, longitude and date to the D/I Bus relay packet, then spend (probably an unnecessary amount of) time coming up with an algorithm that can efficiently do a lookup on a world timezone map and set everything automatically.

Repos (1, 2) updated with the config and code.

[karter16]

I've configured Gauge.S to send the GPS time out as part of its D/I Bus relay packet. On (electrical) cold start, the BlueBus will wait until it sees a valid time (in reality waiting for the GPS to lock), then set it. Works great!

Slick!! I love it - that's a great QoL improvement!


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[heinzboehmer]

that's a great QoL improvement!

It really is! Feels nice to never have to worry about setting the clock again.

[Obioban]

... but how will you reset the trip?

FYI:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5614502

[George Hill]

Trip is push on the LH button, clock is turn on the RH button

[Obioban]

Ha. Damn it.

Shows how often I use the trip :P

Back in the day, I'm pretty sure my Intravee's set the clock based on GPS time.

[heinzboehmer]

... but how will you reset the trip?

FYI:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5614502

Thanks for the link! Was gonna design my own, but glad I don't have to now.

Weirdly, only the "forward" adjustment broke. Turning the knob CCW and pushing it in still works. But yes, I need to actually fix this at some point, the auto time was just me being lazy. Writing some code on the couch was more appealing than taking the cluster apart at that moment for some reason.