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Anyone happen to know if Kia UVO's is based on Hyundai's Bluelink? I'd love to build a more user-friendly iOS app for controlling my Niro EV than Kia Connect :P
It is exactly the same. You have many modules for Home Assistant (through HACS, none is an official module yet) that will use a similar setup. I use it mostly to track and keep a record of my Niro status.
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I use Android auto all the time. Having Google maps on cars dashboard is very useful.
Still requires manufacturers to implement correctly which I found my 2022 Subaru Android auto is locked in landscape so it's essentially half-screen... No way to fix
I worked for a modern car rental company where you just need to download an app to drive a car. The tech was super interesting, there are vendors that sell a box with both gsm and ble interfaces and the cars are fitted with these. You can send messages through ble or their cloud api / gsm. The app needed to first acquire a token to successfully establish a ble connection. I'm not saying you can't buffer overflow thro…
Zipcar? Or do they use Bluetooth?
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You can hack and customize a "phone" minicomputer, and I believe you can still find pure cellular telephones with basic OS in case you prefer to keep telephony and personal assistant separate; I am not informed that you can do the same with cars, and I very surely do not want an internet connected door, fridge, vehicle, wife to begin with. The more reliable it has to be, the least possibly connected you want it. I am…
If you do any sort of that you are instantly marking yourself as suspect
Secondly: you may have given one State authority over some conditional monitoring, but we have not allowed any such power to any private party.
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Hackernews: A community made up of many people with a wide variety of opinions.
Nah… if you are not lucky enough to be in a discussion early it’s just one side of the hivemind jerking it and the other side stfu because no one wants to get downvote abused :)
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Nah… if you are not lucky enough to be in a discussion early it’s just one side of the hivemind jerking it and the other side stfu because no one wants to get downvote abused :)
Typically, when people get downvoted, the downvotes are for the tone of the comment - ad hominem attacks, extremist conspiracy theories with lack of supporting data, unwilling to see different perspectives. But the downvoted then blame this mystical "hivemind" as the cause of their downvotes, rather than try to improve their style of engagement.
> Typically, when people get downvoted, the downvotes are for the tone of the comment - ad hominem attacks
Downvote and their purpose has come up a few times and generally the seems to be a consensus seems to be that downvote=disagree is 100%, legitimate, citing some quote by PG. And if you go to certain a threads (highly political ones), it's not uncommon to see some of the more reasonable comments greyed out if they even remotely challenge the zeitgeist of the current thread inhabitants.
This also works the other way around. You can be a complete dick and violate half the guidelines and end up highly upvoted if enough people agree with you. I know because it's happened to me.
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Zipcar? Or do they use Bluetooth?
Zipcar was hilariously easy to bypass/override with physical access. I had access to a local Volvo for almost 3 years until I stopped checking. I never drove the car because of gps and the proliferation of cameras, but I would store random things in the trunk when I was passing by the area
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> Thank god we have normal cars A disconnected car is a requirement by any parameter of sanity given considerations of security including privacy, within a basic right of rejection of absurdity: but for how long will the "privilege" of avoiding lunacy will be granted? In Europe already one has to have law-mandated (in terms of shipment) hardware modules removed (the "e-call"). For how long non-connected cars will be…
You're too late. You can't get a non-connected car since about 2016.
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I can't speak on older BlueLink cars (article is from 2017), but my 2021 Elantra has GSM built-in and the commands are sent/received through the web - no bluetooth at all.
That sucks. Do you know if there is an option to limit it to wifi?