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yea, eff that. Those are the factory install directions that you get as i found that pdf on the web. I didn't have to do that, and honestly i'm not sure why they had to. I have no cable rattle, nor do i have a location in which the cable could get pinched. I will try to find the photo's that i took during the installation and post them here. The hardest part was ultimately putting the camera cable down the door plastic tube. I had to cut the wire and resolder it on the other end, so i could make it as factory as possible.

Yes, you'll need the dodge camera harness to install it and have to take it to the dealer to have them enable the camera function. If you get the lockpick and a standard rca camera you don't need to do any of that and you get the additional features such as movies while driving, etc etc etc. I don't have the harness number on hand, but i rememeber it was about $40 or something along those lines.

Sorry, I didn't get notifications that there were responses to this thread. This is the camera i used:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00P914PMY?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage
I had to remove the entire rear door plastics and a coat hanger (and a shit load of dish detergent) to shimmy the cable down the window cable tube to mount it. then electrical tapes the entire wire to the existing wiring harness that runs behind the plastics. I didn't pull all the internal plastics off, i simply pushed the wire behind the plastics and ran it down by the door plastics on the floor, up under the dash and into the back of the radio where the c8 was.

I got the lockpick here on the forums for $100, used. I am also going to add cameras to my sideview mirrors so i wanted the additional features.. couldn't pass that up.

Chris

hush. i was answering other questions also. look above

I got the prius from a dentist who put 45k miles on it and wanted to get rid of it for 10k. it's fully loaded and I had the previous generation for my long commutes to work (1.5 hours one way) and couldn't beat the price. I won't buy one new as they're too expensive.... If i find an unbeatable deal though, i'll take it. The prius saves me nearly $80 in gas each month over the journey, and also allows me to save 800 miles a week on the journey by not driving it to and from work. The journey is a travel/around town vehicle when i want comfort. The prius is meant to get me 54mpg and cost me less than $20 a week in gas driving to and from work.
For awhile, the prius had a bad read wheel bearing that ultimately was the reason for getting the journey. I traded the prius in for the journey but my soon to be ex wife refused to sign the trade in paperwork even though the prius was undrivable and even though the dealer was going to give me 10k for it.. she refused to sign the papers, so now i have two vehicles until the divorce is final. (the judge was pissed at her for refusing the sign the paperwork to get rid of it btw).. in either case, while the prius was out of commission, i managed to put 20k miles on the journey in 6 months... that's why I like driving the prius

This is the stuff I use. It brings back the new car smell and does an amazing job of cleaning without leaving a massive shine. I use libearlly on each seat. Others i've used leave a white haze on the seats. This doesnt. I'll take pictures after next cleaning this weekend.

Got a gen1 c8 lock pick here on the forum several months ago and a rear camera on amazon. Did the install last night and couldn't be happier. Now I just need navigation!

The specs for the device you need to build are on our page.. under the hardware tab on the home page. It's fairly straight forward and relatively cheap. I'm working to build it on new proprietary hardware that will be even cheaper, in the future.

Alright. the signature image is complete. I'm sure bugs will come up, but won't be able to do anything about that until more people are on board and using the system.

i'm glad you like.
Another update:
I was just able to get things working on my linux laptop with a small python script that I wrote with pybluez. That's probably spanish to folks, but i wanted to put it on here for my reference later. I'm able to now do all of the functions i mentioned above from a pc. This is the first step to converting everything over to working on a raspberry pi. The only setback i've seen, is the remote start for our journeys only allows you to remotely start it once without actually starting the car. I assume the same thing happens when you autostart it and it times out and turns off. It throws the message "remote start disbaled, please start car to reset" or something like that. This isn't that big of a deal, it just means that we can't start and stop it over and over again.
I'll start working on the deeper portions of the python code, primarily making a webcall to a site that i'll make later that will let you start the car remotely. The raspberry pi will check in with the server every 30 seconds or so to see if there is a message waiting to do something "like start the car, roll down windows, etc". This means that it won't be instant, but it will happen in half a second, depending on when the last time it checked in with the web server. This is the same way that uconnect access works... i'll try to figure out a faster way of making it happen.. perhaps a push function or something that keeps the pi connected to the server until it receives something, vs checking now and again... will have to see.
Notes for myself (How I got it running):
need python-dev and libbluetooth-dev installed on the system to connect leverage pybluez. also need to install the pybluez python egg from https://github.com/karulis/pybluez.git, with python setup.py install ensure that rfcomm is installed Test script in python that was created """ A simple Python script to send messages to a sever over Bluetooth using PyBluez (with Python 2). """ import bluetooth serverMACAddress = '00:04:3E:08:42:2F' port = 1 s = bluetooth.BluetoothSocket(bluetooth.RFCOMM) s.connect((serverMACAddress, port)) while 1: text = raw_input() # Note change to the old (Python 2) raw_input if text == "quit": break s.send(text) s.close() edit /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf for manual run... pybluez does this for you so it won't be needed to establish a connection that's already registered via push button on the obdlink lx # # RFCOMM configuration file. # rfcomm0 { # # Automatically bind the device at startup bind yes; # # Bluetooth address of the device device 00:04:3E:08:42:2F; # # RFCOMM channel for the connection channel 1; # # Description of the connection comment "odblink lx"; }

ROFL.. Cover it with vinyl that's the same color as the car

Not really hacking anything, pulling vehicle metrics (the same thing apps do on the android/apple market) and doing a basic replay on the start and stop command that the key fob does. now, if I was changing the way the car functioned, i'd be rolling into hacking. My plans are to take a few things the vehicle already does, and allow them to be done beyond the range of the key fob. I see nothing wrong with that

You can easily chirp from a stop, but there is no tire burning as it's FWD. I will say though, in sport with the electric motor assist, it's pretty quick to about 40mph. Then it hits optimal gearing and a herd of cattle could outpace it. i average 53+mpg on it, and generally have to fill it up every week for about $20. saves me $20 a week over the journey, and also since it's already got 120k miles on it, it saves me mileage on the journey. Truth is though, I tried to trade it in for the journey, but my estrainged wife refused to sign the title over to dodge.. she wanted to get every penny from it that she could in the divorce, even though i tried to explain to her that we owe 18k on it, and it's worth maybe 10... i managed to get the dealership to give me 12k in trade in and roll the rest into the journey.. but she's an idiot without basic math skills.... so there we are.

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!

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!

ALPHA 0.1.0 released! Hardware requirements can be found on our page, www.Auto-Mated.com
So i'm in the process of sniffing all the ODB calls for most, if not all of the features in my journey. My hope is to create a webservice for remotely starting my car, viewing travel information, as well as logging any vehicle troubles. I'm also taking it a step further in automating things (Think, Jarvis from Ironman), but i'm sure that most of you won't be interested in that.

In either case, I successfully sniffed the remote start/stop as well as the lock, unlock calls for my journey last night, and was able to replicate them all with my laptop/cellphone. Now that I have the basic uconnect features locked down (all other odb calls such as errors and metrics are simple), i'm going to build the raspberry pi image and test it out. I'm going to use this forum post to keep folks up to date on things and take suggestions for additional features.

I'm a developer by trade, so i'll probably end up making a community site like uconnect access, that allows you to login and remotely start your car, track oil changes, travel summaries and all other data we can yank from the vehicle. I expect that I will provide more information and control of your journey, than the stock Uconnect Access provides..

Stand by for updates!

Oh, btw. I plan on making the service opensource, but with a very very small fee to cover server costs, outside what it would cost you to get a wireless access dongle from a reputible cellular carrier.
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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!

ok folks. I just got the remote start piece working perfectly. For the first release (in the next day or so), i'll include the following remote features:
Lock
Unlock
Start
Stop
After that, i'll add more. For now, it will only support the dodge journey. I have the codes for many other vehicles, but I've hardcoded the calls into the pi code, until I can figure out how I want to handle it on the server side. With that said, the demo user that i've provided for others to log in and view, will be locked down again tomorrow sometime because i will be enabling the feature that allows me to control my vehicle. The last thing I want, is for some of you to be starting and stopping or honking my horn while i'm at work tomorrow
I'll let everyone know when the image is finished and give you a list of the hardware that I've used to create it. If you would rather purchase it from me, I can do that also, though due a run on pi's, it may take a bit to get one for you.
On another note, I believe i resolved a memory leak on the dashboard that was causing the realtime gauges to creep up and ultimately kill browsers after repeated callbacks for data. It was a google chart bug that they resolved in a new release candidate.
kthx,
HawtDog

@s4in7,
Thanks for the offer. If i get to a point where I need it, i'll definately will call on you for help. What I really need is someone with php experience or python experience. I also would love to have someone else that's experienced in obd calls.
Also, this is probably going to be spanish to most, but I got the Pi to push rpm, speed and mpg to an influxdb metrics index, last night. I'm working on graphs for the dashboard now.

ok, so i've made some progress with this. I'm currently able to roll down/up all windows or just individual windows, start and stop the car, lock all doors, unlock just the driver door or unlock all doors from the web. It's not 100% yet, and I still have other features I want to add, like only cracking the windows when the temperature outside gets above a defined value, cracking the sunroof (if equiped), etc..
The good news is, it appears there is location information associacted with each window, which I can read to determine how far it's been lowered. This will be good for folks with those window vent plastic thingies that allow them to roll the window down slightly in bad weather without getting soaked. My intent is to allow you to click a button from your cell, or a website that drops the windows about an inch at any time, and then roll them back up. Still trying to figure out how to make this happen when the car isn't on... i'll keep working on that, though.
if you can think of anything else you want to automate, let me know... one of them I was thinking of, was notifications if the alarm was tripped for some reason. perhaps add a camera module to the raspberry pi, and create a nice mount on the rear view mirror, or somewhere else, that snaps a photo and quickly emails it to you with whoever is jacking with the vehicle... call me paranoid, but if i'm capable of doing it, i'd like to do it...

sure haven't. I may do that down the road though.

This is the repo for my latest work
https://github.com/HawtDogFlvrWtr/uhacknect