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johschmitztoday at 8:33 AM1 replyview on HN

The control messages are transmitted via CAN bus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus

The exact message content and protocols are reverse engineered.

Some cars use FlexRay instead of CAN bus but that has only experimental support.


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grepfru_ittoday at 9:40 AM

Flexray is supported only on Audi on a specific Flexray-canbus integration board that was just end of lifed and Comma has no desire to support other boards. It was a proof of concept for anyone wishing to implement the same