Hey folks! I've been tinkering around with this for quite a few days SmartCar OBD2 USB Device thought it'd be useful to share, as the little information I could find online on this was about Renault cars, and not the smart.I was looking at the recently and I saw that the 2017 smarts are compatible with it. Since the head unit looks exactly the same as in the previous years' models, it got me wondering if something could be done for those as well.
After some research, the SmartCar OBD2 USB Device Media-System is basically a rebranded R-Link device, and my understanding is that the newer smarts have a version that's called "R-Link Evolution", which is the one compatible with Android Auto. I haven't had the chance to play around with one of those yet, so I'm unsure if there are any actual hardware differences between the two, but I suspect that they both run the exact same software and only have a different configuration.
The SmartCar OBD2 USB Device bus has become a defacto standard in modern cars. Just about everything electronic in a car these days talks over this bus, which makes it fertile ground for aspiring hackers. [Daniel Velazquez] is striking out in this area, attempting to decode the messages on the CAN bus of his Smart ForTwo.[Daniel] has had some pitfalls – first attempts with a Beaglebone Black were somewhat successful in reading messages, but led to strange activity of the car and indicators. This is par for the course in any hack that wires into an existing system – there’s a high chance of disrupting what’s going on leading to unintended consequences.
Further work using an SmartCar OBD2 USB Device with the MCP_CAN library netted [Daniel] better results, but it would be great to understand precisely why the BeagleBone was causing a disturbance to the bus. Safety is highly important when you’re hacking on a speeding one-ton metal death cart, so it pays to double and triple check everything you’re doing.You can also use Mirrorlink (for the 2 people in the world who actually use it), and perhaps most importantly, replace the crappy built-in voice recognition with Siri or Google Assistant. "Siri, play the road trip playlist" or "Navigate to the nearest gas station" can now be a thing by pressing and holding the voice button on the steering wheel, yup!
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