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Honda Civics and the Evil Valet(juniperspring.org)
414 points by librick 3mo ago|96 comments
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by librick 3mo ago
To update 10th-gen Honda Civics, Honda ships updates on specially-formatted USB drives. They're essentially Android 4.2.2rc1-era recovery packages with some Honda-added version checks (which can be spoofed). The packages are signed wit
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by librick 3y ago
*Jankiness, not jerkiness. I could have clarified that better; what I mean is that it was strange to me that the backup camera had two stages. The camera video feed comes up first, then the yellow overlay lines are rendered on top later. Wh
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by librick 3y ago
TLDR; Kia rant: Yea it's bizarre to me how recalls aren't more widespread. The fiasco with Kia cars getting broken into is my favorite recent example. Teenagers break into random stranger's Kias and go on joyrides. Then local
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by librick 3y ago
I can't speak to CarPlay but yea I'll say the headunit software is certainly usable. One of the reasons I started this project was because I admire the engineering involved. I wish they would've shipped wireless Android Auto
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by librick 3y ago
Yea I tend to have pretty high memory usage, including when I was running close to stock (i.e., before installing a bunch of third-party apps). My model didn't come with a built-in GPS app, but I was told that the next trim up/mor
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by librick 3y ago
Addressing "(It doesn't have a cellular data connection so it's not a security risk)" - I wouldn't say it's not a security risk. Check out the Bluetooth docs in the repo for example. Cellular data is only one i
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by librick 3y ago
Yea if I get more into the hardware hacking side of things, it'd be great if I could add a wire harness to be able to connect external power to the headunit/disconnect it from the car battery. I never had to fully disconnect batte
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by librick 3y ago
Thanks :) My friends and I have made a few jokes about hacking my literal "daily driver". TLDR; didn't excise, mostly sat in my car. I originally rooted the car using Honda Hack via http://www.autohack.org/ .
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by librick 3y ago
The apparent jankiness of the rear camera was one of the first reasons I started hacking on the car tbh. It was weird to me that the yellow guidelines/overlay don't appear on the camera feed until a little while after the camera f
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by librick 3y ago
As far as I currently understand it, most of the code on my headunit is probably 99% identical to the code on 2021 Accord units. Same goes for Acura cars; I can't publish the APK files themselves but there are Acura versions of Honda
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Show HN: Honda Civic Infotainment Reverse-Engineering(github.com)
94 points by librick 3y ago|43 comments