This is awesome, thanks for sharing the idea! I'd say it's ingenious as it's one of those ideas that are so simple in retrospect but probably wasn't as obvious when coming up with a way to interact with the car. I know other people have used APIs to talk through their cars which have required reverse engineering of the app protocols and stuff, this approach is just beautifully simple!
How do we even know you have a truck? Maybe this all a (very) elaborate ruse to make us random internet strangers think you're a cool person who owns a truck!
Great idea. I'll consider it. Basically I just used a multimeter in probe mode and figured out if the buttons were connected to 3.3v or GND. I then connected the wires to the side of the button that was closer to the microcontroller. If the button shorts 3.3v to microcontroller then I connected it to a PullUp GPIO, if the button shorts to GND, then I connected it to a PullDown GPIO.
in the future, maybe show it actually doing stuff to the vehicle. right now the only way we know it works is your words, and the led's changing color.. showing it working helps visually show that it does work. *EDIT* it's also not home assistant, sure it might be compatible, but thats just a webui hosted on the ESP.
Thanks for the feedback. I will provide more updates including a video of it starting the vehicle. I do have screeshots of home assistant integration on github, but I will add more video showing that integration aswell.
You could just take his word for it... I know it's a ludicrous idea. He repurposed a keyfob and hooked it up to an esp. It's not rocket science but it's definitely a cool idea worthy of sharing.
@@bdot02 while true it's not rocket science, it could all still be BS.. i have no clue what an f150 key fob looks like inside, the wires could just be going behind the fob and do nothing, and the only thing connected was the lights in a 3d printed case. its not home assistant, hence why i made my point. another guy also pointed out how it could be fake, i don't see you commenting on his comment about it. now in my defense, i only believe what i see. and here i see a webui and some lights, not a car locking, unlocking and starting. so until i see that, i don't believe its working, even if i can see on the github it all SHOULD work.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing the idea! I'd say it's ingenious as it's one of those ideas that are so simple in retrospect but probably wasn't as obvious when coming up with a way to interact with the car. I know other people have used APIs to talk through their cars which have required reverse engineering of the app protocols and stuff, this approach is just beautifully simple!
How do we even know you have a truck? Maybe this all a (very) elaborate ruse to make us random internet strangers think you're a cool person who owns a truck!
My plans were foiled again. Dastardly internet sleuths uncovered my cunning plan.
This is really cool! Any chance you could do a video showing how you figured out connecting the 8266 to the key fob?
Great idea. I'll consider it. Basically I just used a multimeter in probe mode and figured out if the buttons were connected to 3.3v or GND. I then connected the wires to the side of the button that was closer to the microcontroller. If the button shorts 3.3v to microcontroller then I connected it to a PullUp GPIO, if the button shorts to GND, then I connected it to a PullDown GPIO.
in the future, maybe show it actually doing stuff to the vehicle. right now the only way we know it works is your words, and the led's changing color.. showing it working helps visually show that it does work.
*EDIT* it's also not home assistant, sure it might be compatible, but thats just a webui hosted on the ESP.
Thanks for the feedback. I will provide more updates including a video of it starting the vehicle. I do have screeshots of home assistant integration on github, but I will add more video showing that integration aswell.
You could just take his word for it... I know it's a ludicrous idea. He repurposed a keyfob and hooked it up to an esp. It's not rocket science but it's definitely a cool idea worthy of sharing.
@@bdot02 while true it's not rocket science, it could all still be BS.. i have no clue what an f150 key fob looks like inside, the wires could just be going behind the fob and do nothing, and the only thing connected was the lights in a 3d printed case. its not home assistant, hence why i made my point. another guy also pointed out how it could be fake, i don't see you commenting on his comment about it.
now in my defense, i only believe what i see. and here i see a webui and some lights, not a car locking, unlocking and starting. so until i see that, i don't believe its working, even if i can see on the github it all SHOULD work.