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What do you think?? Was thrilled that it was still available. I now have a matching pair

The harness has been claimed..

nope, didn't even have to remove the spare.. there is plenty of room to install it without removing anything.. For those who do it though, Make sure you wear safety goggles.. there were rocks and all kinds of dust up in that area that fell into my eyes.

So I went with the class III curt hitch (13201) and the mopar harness for our journey. I had the harness activated today at a local dealer and all is working perfectly. The company that sent me the wiring harness sent me two of them.. one looks used and was missing the bumper inserts, and the other was brand new. I thought that i was going have to deal with the used harness (it showed up two days before the new one did) so I purchased the bumper inserts in ziptie form from amazon and got the harness up and working perfectly. If someone wants it, i'll send it to you for free.. just need to pay shipping. I ended up getting one of those cheapo cargo baskets that attach to it from harbor freight for like $40.. it's genius and fits my garbage cans perfectly, so I don't have to haul trash in the back of the journey... (I don't have trash pickup here in the sticks). NOW ON WITH THE PICTURES!

Added the activity lights on the page for call back. You can now see if your uhacknect is connected and working properly from the web.

Another teaser.. i've had a lot of time to work out a few kinks tonight.. I've also completely changed the LCD Display functions so they are called from the main script, instead of some backwoods c++. It now provides realtime information that's pertinent, rather than OS related crap. From top to bottom, here are what each line mean: 1. This is the key that you use when adding a vehicle to the site. I've blurred it because if you know my key, you can add my vehicle to the site and control it. I will probably make this only appear if the vehicle hasn't been added to the site already.. after which, it will just disappear and be filled with other data. Kind of like enabling a device for use on netflix, they provide a key that you enter on the site, and the device is registered. 2. This tells you if the device has a connection to the OBD2 dongle (OBDLink LX) on the vehicle. This says down, because i'm testing it at my desk and not near my vehicle. Normally it would say Up. 3. This is the status of the engine.. if it's started or stopped. I know it doesn't seem important to display that as you'll be in the vehicle at the time, but for testing purposes, it's important for me to know that the device can actually tell if the engine is online or not. 4. This tells me if the device is able to call back to www.uhacknect.com successfully. The other day I implemented server side code to display icons on the dashboard that say if the device has talked back to us within the last 30 seconds. I will also display icons for the engine being on, and if the OBD2 dongle is connected. All this will be viewable on the dashboard page. 5. This tells me if the last metrics push to www.uhacknect.com happened successfully or if it failed. 6. This is a count of failed and successful metrics pushes to uhacknect.com. I want to know how many times we tried to push metrics but failed and how many times it succeeded. If you can think of other useful information to display on this screen (remember, it's going to be in the center console) please let me know.

Sneak preview of uHacknect Mark II. Smaller, Faster, Cleaner. Still have an intermittent AWD light coming on when my app attempts to do something naughty. AWD is actually on, it's just triggering the light and a ding.. As of now, it only happens every 20+ trips and turns off on vehicle shutdown.

I haven't disappeared, I've just been resolving bugs I'm getting closer to a release that will work on 2011+ journeys. Even if you don't have remote start, you can still use uHacknect to track data on your vehicle. Once i get this warning light issue resolved, i'll be rebuilding the system from scratch to ensure it's repeatable, and finally, i'll be pushing out an image. Thanks, Chris

It's funny you mention that. I'm putting a hitch on mine also and was just research that a few days ago. Let me look into it a bit and let you know

I doubt it will use more than 1G a month. I need to check my usage for the last 7 days, and let you know. It appears that each data push is about 4 bytes. it pushes 4 bytes every 5 seconds while you're driving. it also pulls 1 byte every 10 seconds when checking for actions to perform, and if there is one, can pull up to 10 bytes of data. As for what to use, I live in the US and went to https://www.straighttalk.com/wps/portal/home/shop/otherdevices/hotspotand got the Mobile Hotspot (Unimax U240C Reconditioned) for $14.99 (Normally $79, one time). It's only a 3g connection, but that's all i need for the little data that i'm pulling. Every month it costs $15 for 1Gig of data, which I can swing. If you would prefer to only rely on your cell phone or home/work internet connection, you can do that also. You simply join it to one of those and when it's in range, it will perform the action you've specified. On that note, does anyone have the in-vehicle internet connection that comes from mopar? I need to know if it's always on, or only on when the vehicle is on.

just goto www.uhacknect.com and register for an account by clicking the login link on the top right, and then clicking new account. As for purchasing the equipment, there is a list of the hardware needed, on the homepage, under the hardware tab. I've included all of the links to the amazon pages for the products. it comes out to be about $80 with everything. Eventually i'll be selling the device completely put together for the cost of the hardware, so if you just want to wait, you can do that and have one mailed to you completely assembled. I also have custom cases being printed that will look beautiful, and will include the uhacknect logo. As for invalidating warranty, it won't. We aren't breaking anything on the car, and are simply leveraging the already existant OBD port under the front left part of the dashboard. Right now, I simply power the raspberry pi with the cigarette lighter port in the center console, and let it sit there also. This port (on my car at least) is always powered, so the Pi stays on until the car is turned on, at which point it's restarted in about 15 seconds and back up and pulling metrics, and waiting for actions to perform on the vehicle. IF you don't have an always powered port in your console, you can simply buy a power brick to power the pi. I have a 10k miliamp battery that lasts about 12 hours running the pie. It's automatically charged when the car is turned on. I'll take more photo's later of my setup so everyone can see it and how simple it is to install.

Can someone who was having email problems, do me a solid and create another account for testing. I want to see if my changes fixed things. Thanks, Chris

i'm working on it. Not sure what the issue is, but i'm working on it. As for the winner, after running a randomizer query in mysql against the 20+ users that registered, @silenze is the winner! as soon as I get the pieces in, and have a stable build, i'll be mailing you a fully loaded pi that's completely ready to go. I would go ahead and purchase your OBDLink LX so you have it in hand when you get the pi. CONGRATS! The rest of you, i'll mail a sticker to each of you as soon as they come in.

Can you two who had issues getting the email, create a test user for me and tell me if it works for you, now. Thanks, Chris

I went ahead and activated your account. I see your provider,I'll look into why its failing tonight.

I will have to take a look at the code. Who is your email provider? I want to see if there is something in common with the rest that are failing. I believe it's probably being blocked because something looks suspicious.

I just went ahead and activated you. you can login now.

Check your spam folder.

If you click the recall # on the left, it will tell you in great detail, what it's about. I only provide a small fraction of the entire recall.

ROFL. I will certainly mail you a sticker for being on the site and registered in under 5 minutes of me posting this. If you win, i'll also send you a Pi.. Good luck!

*NOTE* IF YOU DON'T GET AN ACTIVATION EMAIL WHEN REGISTERING, CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER! OK, i'm going to need testers to get this thing off the ground... so i'm going to be giving away a complete uHacknect setup (about $80 value.. not including the OBDLink LX adapter) to a person registered on the site (www.uHacknect.com). I'm going to be choosing this coming Monday (6/1/2015) at random. Right now there are 7 people who have joined the site. If you already have an account, you just have to add what I've asked below. If you don't, register now and enter to win a free unit, and to be a guinea pig of mine. Here are a couple of rules. 1. No multiple registrations... I'm watching who registers and can tell if you're the same person. 2. You have to register your vehicle on the site once you've verified your account via the email. (You can enter whatever you want for the vehicle key, but the VIN must be genuine and yours) 3. You must upload a profile image. 4. You must make your profile public (so I can choose one of you) 5. You must add a social link if you have one (facebook, myspace *HAHA*, twitter, etc) 6. You must set your phone number and address (so I can mail the setup to you if you win.. you can remove it later. BTW, no phone or address information will show up on your profile.) 7. You must set a bio about yourself about why you're on dodjourneyforum.com, and why you're interested in uHacknect (doesn't have to be long). 8. You must set your timezone on the site. *NEW* I ask for all of these steps to be completed (it's really not that hard) because I want to know that the site is working as it should and that it's ready for prime-time.. Also, I want to ensure that navigating the site is simple and that anyone can do it. Couple of other things... IF you find a bug and report it on here, I'll either buy you a single item for your final uHacknect pi setup (probably the bluetooth adapter worth $12), or send you a uHacknect sticker to put on your car.

ok ladies and gentlemen... Major additions today and a major step forward to a release of the image. Finished Added pie charts to the dashboard, to include ranges for many items. Got the pie callback for actions, working. Now when an action is performed on the vehicle (lock,unlock,start,stop) it tells the server it finished it so it doesn't perform it again. (this means i can enable the buttons on the website) Updated a ton of the source to fix a few bugs. I still have a minor bug where the script dumps when an internet connection drops. (should be an easy fix) Added a milestones portion to the homepage to show what I have left to do. Added a list of the hardware that i'm using so others can go ahead and purchase the same equipment while waiting for me to get the image finished. I got my pi connected to a straight talk 3g modem ($14 refurb + 15$ a month for 1gb (shouldn't need anymore than that)) ToDo Get a flipping image finished for others Fix a few minor bugs Find a way to determine if the vehicle is fully running or just remote start running (there is a difference) so you can't fire an action to stop the vehicle while it's fully running (it won't work, but it'll try over and over again) Add more graphs and rewrite the influxdb call so i can put multiple items on a single chart. (This is a limitation with influxdb... they decided to remove labels when you called more than one select.... stupid, but fixed in 0.9) Add parental features like alerting on excessive speeding Add additional features like control windows.

we'll figure it out.. don't worry

Did you add \r\n to the end of the codes? they are needed at the end.. so it should look like 69AA37901100\r\n. IF you're using the bluetooth terminal by querty in the android market, there is a setting called "append \r\n" that you can enable, to do this for you. BTW, be careful.. the command ATSH1C0 tells your vehicle computer that you're about to send commands to it.. if you mistype something you can really hose the car... JUST A WARNING!

hey, thanks for that. i'll give this and the gas door a go sometime this week, and report back with what I find. If you have the factory remote start, it should work. It's the same remote start module, from what I can tell. If it's not, i'll find out the calls to do the remote start. In either case, we'll get it working.. don't worry.