• CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Heated seats use a heating element which just needs power and ground. They can’t encrypt that.

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      11 months ago

      Yes you can run your own wire and glue a switch to the console. But it won’t work in the car’s ui. And I bet everything over 5v for USB is off a computer controlled relay. So you’d have to patch into the high voltage battery and do your own dc to dc conversion.

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          11 months ago

          If it was easy and cheap, everyone would be doing it for all their controls instead of complaining about Tesla’s touch screen.

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              11 months ago

              I didn’t say I couldn’t do it. I implied it would be expensive to do it commercially. Home users who do it as a hobby so their hourly rate doesn’t matter can do it legally anyway.