Just needing some clarification...

[mattfrayage]

The Novero HT-5 Hack looks Very cool and being that we have one installed in our 2013 North American Region only NMS Passat, I was hoping you could help me... I live in the United States,where it was never sold, which makes the SOS function not work properly as it calls the Euro emergency services number instead of American 911... the whole Micro-USB root task looks easy... but the whole serial port install tear-down not so much... just wondering if there is any way to access changing this number or turning on some of the boxes other features (TMC,parking,etc...)
perhaps there is some way to reconfigure the Micro-USB port to act as the PC- to-ht-5 dongle while leaving the ht-5 module plugged into the car?
the thing that scared me though was python... the most complicated programmer I have ever Used is VCDS... which I am pretty sure means this may be going into uncharted waters as far as my programing experience goes(or lack thereof) any way to make this thing work is a great improvement but no matter the crash course, the 911 thing i really need to change!
thanks to anyone who can help!
Matt

[tmbinc]

Hi,

First, I see that "callprovider" has a hardcoded "112" number for
"ACTION_CREATE_EMERGENCY". This for sure can be hex-edited though.

However there's more - when the phone (i.e. the part that does the GSM
connection in RSAP case) detects that an emergency number is dialed, it
switches away from the phone's SIM card and issues an emergency call on
the network. From what I've heard this can be an issue because some
networks do require a SIM card for emergency calls.

I'm afraid I can't fully help you. I'd try by doing the noveroexec.sh
hack (enable the rndis line) and attempt to SSH into the HT-5 via
USB/rndis. You can try changing the "112" string in callprovider to
something else, and see if it successfully dials that number (maybe
start with something else than 911 first :).

Felix

On 6/30/2014 6:23 AM, mattfrayage wrote:

The Novero HT-5 Hack looks Very cool and being that we have one
installed in our 2013 North American Region only NMS Passat, I was
hoping you could help me... I live in the United States,where it was
never sold, which makes the SOS function not work properly as it calls
the Euro emergency services number instead of American 911... the whole
Micro-USB root task looks easy... but the whole serial port install
tear-down not so much... just wondering if there is any way to access
changing this number or turning on some of the boxes other features
(TMC,parking,etc...)
perhaps there is some way to reconfigure the Micro-USB port to act as
the PC- to-ht-5 dongle while leaving the ht-5 module plugged into the car?
the thing that scared me though was python... the most complicated
programmer I have ever Used is VCDS... which I am pretty sure means this
may be going into uncharted waters as far as my programing experience
goes(or lack thereof) any way to make this thing work is a great
improvement but no matter the crash course, the 911 thing i really need
to change!
thanks to anyone who can help!
Matt

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