pemessier / soulevspy

Soul EV Spy

Soul EV Spy is an Android application that allows you to read out some useful information out of your Kia Soul EV car that you cannot access using the on-board computer or display.

Informal warning

Before you download and use this software consider the following: you are interfering with your car and doing that with hardware and software beyond your control (and frankly, for a large part beyond ours), created by a loose team of interested amateurs in this field. Any car is a possibly lethal piece of machinery and you might hurt or kill yourself or others using it, or even paying attention to the displays instead of watching the road. Be extremely prudent!

By even downloading this software, or the source code provided on GitHub, you agree to have completely understand this.

Formal disclaimer

SOUL EV SPY (“THE SOFTWARE”) IS PROVIDED AS IS. USE THE SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHORS MAKE NO WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN COMMUNICATION FROM OR INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE, MISUSE, OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THESE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY IN ALL JURISDICTIONS. YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS AND SOME OF THESE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THIS SOFTWARE IS ONLY INTENDED FOR SCIENTIFIC USAGE.

soulevspy's Issues

Design overview?

I finally have some time for working on this project.

I am able to build the app, run it on my Android phone, and connect to the (replaced) KW-902 bluetooth in the Soul EV. As far as I can see in the code, that's it; the current version of the source makes no attempt at sending any OBD-commands.

I would like to start debugging the communication. However, being new to all of Android development, Java, bluetooth and OBD; I face a steep learning curve.

I have been browsing around in the code, but I am uncertain how the design for the OBD command sending and response parsing is envisioned. So, as a first goal, I will see if I can get one command and response to work, by shortcutting as much as needed, for the first communication attempts. Later, when I understand how the protocol works, and hopefully you have shared your thoughts on OBD communication design, I can make the right structures for handling commands and replies in an orderly fashion.

You mentioned that you had a prototype that crashed when receiving a reply. Is this something you can easily share? So I can see how you got it to send that first command?

Are you still working on this project?

Can you leave a note about the state of the code when you stopped working on it.
Do you mind if others take over this project?

Clone is on Google Play Store

The clone I have made from this project (https://github.com/langemand/SoulEVSpy) has come far, although it is still far from perfect. It is now available for installation from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evranger.soulevspy.

Thanks to all contributors on this project, for making all your hard work available as Open Source!

New Version of the OBC

The new version of the OBC has different firmware from the earlier version. see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YYlZ-IcTQlz-LzaYkHO-7a4SFM8QYs2BGNXiSU5_EwI/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=770631180

Using Torque I have no way to program a check for the updated OBC. see http://www.mykiasoulev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3866#p3866
Hopefully SoulEVSpy will automate this check.

So far I am guessing that the new version of the OBC is available in cars built from Oct 2015, or older cars that have had an OBC replacement to fix the Charging Fault Error. Can you confirm this from your own car or the Quebec data.