I worked for a modern car rental company where you just need to download an app to drive a car.
The tech was super interesting, there are vendors that sell a box with both gsm and ble interfaces and the cars are fitted with these.<p>You can send messages through ble or their cloud api / gsm.
The app needed to first acquire a token to successfully establish a ble connection.<p>I'm not saying you can't buffer overflow through ble messages but at least the authentication was solid.
I build this for a cron script that queries my car's odometer and then queries CarFax to log my cars price over time on YNAB[1], but it has many uses.<p>Been thinking - lately - to perhaps also use this package with Google Home, but haven't gotten around to it. Might come in handy fellow Hyundai owners.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youneedabudget.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.youneedabudget.com</a>
Thank god we have normal cars as I have never understood the appeal of a smart car since everything a smart car can do can be done with a halfway decent smartphone.<p>* by smart car, I am not talking about self driving cars, I am talking about the gimmick of running some Android and iOS apps on one's car
Can someone ELI5 how this works? I understand it's sending requests to some API on some server, but what I don't get is how the car receives these commands. What does the entire end-to-end network look like?
If you get phished or something, can attackers use this to turn off the car while driving? Or something lesd harmful like keep it on while you're at work and drain gas.
It reminds me of the slightly funny incident when my brother's boss got stuck midway on the road to his destination, because his Fiskar Karma was having a firmware update
Anyone happen to know if Kia UVO's is based on Hyundai's Bluelink? I'd love to build a more user-friendly iOS app for controlling my Niro EV than Kia Connect :P
Ooooooo what I really hate about this is that a remote API is called to do this.<p>It would be considerably less terrifying if this was just canbus messages.<p>BIG YIKES
Having looked into this myself recently, why would I use this project over bluelinky?<p><a href="https://github.com/Hacksore/bluelinky" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Hacksore/bluelinky</a>
Blinkenlights with Python! I wonder when we'll see "Crash your Tesla with Python". So far, Musk seems to disallow the untyped language based on modifiable nested dictionaries and weird name spaces.