Comment by post_break
3 years ago
Would love if this ported to the 2021 Honda Accord as well. I would love a custom button to turn on the rear camera for easier parking, longer dwell time after shifting into drive, etc. Keep up the good work!
3 years ago
Would love if this ported to the 2021 Honda Accord as well. I would love a custom button to turn on the rear camera for easier parking, longer dwell time after shifting into drive, etc. Keep up the good work!
As far as I currently understand it, most of the code on my headunit is probably 99% identical to the code on 2021 Accord units. Same goes for Acura cars; I can't publish the APK files themselves but there are Acura versions of Honda logos in most of the APKs. Also check out some of the APK filenames: https://github.com/librick/ic1101/blob/main/docs/apk-hashes.....
I welcome PRs/contributions from the community; things like Honda-internal model numbers represent a non-technical obstacle for me as a lone developer. It'd be great to see boot/recovery images for similar vehicles, Accords included.
One of my goals is right-to-repair adjacent. I bought a Honda in the first place because they have a reputation for having an active modding scene and I see value in that positive feedback loop. Hopefully having the repo as a resource helps other people do more hardware mods or manufacture cheaper/consumer-friendly replacement parts.
I've considered trying to make an open source replacement of the /sbin/earlyrvc binary for rear camera hacking specifically. I caught a lucky break because the binary includes logging messages left in by the Honda devs and the messages include method names.
Thanks for the kind words and encouragement :)
What would be really nice is to use the rear camera as a dash cam when driving.
The apparent jankiness of the rear camera was one of the first reasons I started hacking on the car tbh. It was weird to me that the yellow guidelines/overlay don't appear on the camera feed until a little while after the camera feed first shows up. I've confirmed that it's a two stage process controlled in part by the /sbin/earlyrvc binary and later accessed via an Android service. But I'm not sure why the Honda devs didn't include rear camera dash cam functionality. Especially because you can use the side camera while driving, but not the rear camera. My working theory is that there's some sort of limitation with frame buffers or processing power but . I definitely encourage other devs to look into this too
Ahh, didn't realise some Civics have side cameras. My 2020 Civic only has a rear camera. FWIW I haven't noticed much jerkiness from it so far.
I wonder if I could write a little binary that would continuously record the rear camera, at least the last minute or so, and then hook it up to some button in the UI to store the last recording.
How tough is it to root the head unit and work with it?
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