Add physical climate controls to Lightning with big screen???

[Firn]

OK, getting back to how to actually do this ... CAN bus via Arduino or Raspberry-Pi seems like the way to go and is feasible for me. But I saw mention somewhere that Ford is now encrypting CAN bus messages? Is there a way to crack that?

Posted somewhere here was that the Ford TRON system is only on critical modules (safety, etc). I think hvac would be ok.

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[bmwhitetx]

Posted somewhere here was that the Ford TRON system is only on critical modules (safety, etc). I think hvac would be ok.

Will add that I think it also only affects the ICE at this point - and started this year or last. Our 22-24's should not have any encryption.

I bought a canbus sniffer but haven't gotten around to learning how to use it. Plus the MS1 bus is not easily accessible - at least that I have found. These networks are behind the Gateway module so can't be accessed from the OBD port like the old days.

 

[RocketGhost]

This has never made any sense to me. There is no reason for 2 Max defroster buttons on the console. One physical on the lower left, and one on the lower right of the screen. Just make the screen a Max AC. Easy fix that would make a lot of people happy.

I think it's a federal requirement to have a physical defrost button for safety purposes, but I'm not 100% sure. My guess is that they put it on the screen because people may be hunting for it not realizing off hand that it isn't on the screen.

My only wish is that they would separate the seat cooling and heating into separate buttons. There's plenty of room to move controls around. It's also odd that when you push the seat button heat always turns on, they should at least make it so that the seat button doesn't turn anything on and just pops up the menu.

That's my only wish, but I'm one who set my hvac to 72 auto the day I bought the truck and the only times I've touched the climate controls since were to turn on defrost maybe 5 times.

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