This is awesome! I desperately want to replace the stock firmware, an open source alternative would be fantastic. Have you poked around the stock firmware to see how the telemetry is delivered via the modem, out of curiosity? For me that's the number one thing to stop while building out an open alternative in the meantime.

Not working yet: * Audio

Yeah, you already said it was running Linux. (I love Linux, just funny how audio always seems to be so difficult to get working properly)

Very cool, I like it!

Love a big Donate button on my car dashboard. BMW needs to get on this

I'm going to take a wild swing here and say that's probably because there's still a load more audio controller ICs out there than for other interfaces and/or the other interfaces are more standardised on the firmware drivers. Therefore not all drivers cover all audio ICs so it's a bit of a faff to find the right one.

That can be true with the car OS. But he is talking about the "infotainment" tablet OS.

The only reverse engineered Android Auto solution I'm aware of that runs on the phone side is Flywheel, but that's Android only.

https://github.com/Benjamin-Wiegand/Flywheel

For Google-certified head units, it requires extracting keys every 3 months from a rooted Android phone with Google apps installed (with an up-to-date installation of the official Android Auto). Alternatively, it may also be possible to roll the clock back on the head unit.

This is amazing. If you keep working on this I would follow it with great interest!

Tbd, still figuring that out

I have a 2013 Nissan Leaf that runs WindowsCE, I gotta try that next lol

It has been suggested before lol

Currently I don't see a way to monitor CAN bus from the head unit, it just talks to the MICOM over serial, so unless that can relay CAN, it might not be possible.

Yeah... to an extent.

Man, don't get me wrong: for an early project this is cool. I am not trying to rain on someone's parade.

It's cool! Super cool! I am glad they had fun.

But dude, I am a systems engineer. You wouldn't believe the shit I have recompiled kernels for.

That's the thing. Super happy for them. Awesome! And I am sure they learned some shit along the way, and that is so great!

I deeply encourage people to learn, experiment and create.

But I am getting a lot of backlash, but lets make this clearer:

I have been working professionally in systems, networking, and programming hands on for 30 years. Cool, and neat, and an interesting thing to try when we have a weekend and a 12 pack.

Curious where they hit the brick walls. No details there. Just pics and some base notes.

Props to OP, and I apologize for I guess being a dick for half-shrugging... while I worked today as a systems engineering manager.

So many responses: do you all go to work or sleep or have social activities? Just read? Man, but I am a troll; not you, just what others have said.

You know, I took an old iphone and made it a webserver. Why? I was high, to be honest.

Why? Because the dude on my couch challenged me. It even ran wordpress (though the db was running off my server). Why? Man, we were fucking stoned.

And it was annoying because he wasn't helping, just there. Like when playing basketball and someone is trying to block your shot and all you wanted to do was play Horse.

Not really? So OP compiled the Linux kernel to the chip architecture, which was the real feat, and that is admirable, and then played Doom. Cool!

Cool, man. I am getting heat because I am asking what they would do with it, as running a custom OS on your damn death machine is alone dangerous, but let's test it out by playing the most opened source and well optimized code on the fucking planet.... that is the predessor to the real grandpa of FPS... on your fucking car screen... hold up: what is the make, model, year, bluetooth adapter hardware ID or at least which chipset, the wifi chipset, the video chipset, how were each of these compiled to... hold up, what is the CPU used in this year, make, and model of car?

One of these days, people are going to figure out why I said what I said. Not holding my breath.

Edit: to be VERY clear, the structure of the comment was to literally mock you.

Just didn't want you to assume that I don't know how to write. And I am not upset. Just being sardonic.

Drunk ramble?

screams in pipewire

I had that experience, too. Then, some years back, I just stopped having issues with audio in Linux, it Just Worked.

But, maybe a year ago, my desktop machine started this thing where there is noise when the audio driver is active (I'm guessing, I don't really know). That is, if the system plays a sound, for some seconds after that, I'll hear noise from the speakers. Then it cuts off, until the next sound is played.

I've done some searching on the issue, without useful results, everything is about the power saving setting, which has had no effect for me. And the issue those people are having is different than mine, and I haven't hit on quite the right search terms to distinguish.

What would be really cool is if Doom responded to the steering.

Maybe I’m mistaken but I thought qnx was also running the default infotainment systems too

Very cool! I'll be paying attention to the development efforts!

Ladies and gentlemen, this might actually be the most pretentious poster on Lemmy. I propose a toast to witnessing this great moment. Huzzah.

Lol - it runs Doom! I love it

Kia ...subscription?!

Eww

KDE gotta make a vehicle infotainment UI now

Plasma Auto

it depends

Glorious Gnome as all things should be.

They’re the only user I’ve used user tags for on the site. They should be proud.

Oh man, is that the Gen5w head unit that's also on the ioniq 5 and 6? Don't put dangerous ideas in my head...

If yours Android based, maybe? I'm still learning about the broader ecosystem

Why, did you get it working on the BSD kernel?

Tesla has a racing game that does exactly that, but most of the vehicles still have mechanical steering linkage, so the actual wheels turn along with the game. It's not as bad for the tires as you'd think, but it's still ridiculous.

heeeell yeah

no, it was a word play

"You wouldn't download a car!"

Yes I would.

Anyway, I'm glad to finally see something like this. Finally, the start of open source software in vehicles.

Linux is my daily driver guy

Getting Nura running on a car head unit isn't just "compiling the kernel for a different architecture" and if you knew half of what you claim to know, you'd know that. That is, in fact, the easiest part and not "the real feat" by any means.

Hah! We have the exact same car garage!

Similar thing happened to me, I think it was the switch to pipewire that made everything just work.

Finally, the future of automotives we all actually want. This is AWESOME. :D

I’m daily driving Linux

Your daily driving Linux

We’re not the sane

Amazing 👏

I was looking atthe dash, excited to see my car! Is it a projection from a phone or flashed onto the head unit?

Like, I built an MP3 player from hardware scratch, like I actually started with a custom PCB. My coworker's kid wasn't allowed to have his phone in class, the father had a 3D printer, so I threw some shit together.

Oh do go on, tell us about how cool you are. You should get ALL the praise and attention, and all projects must be ridiculed for not being as cool as yours.

Wait, you forgot to list that one project where you got a Linux distro running on a car infotainment unit but ran Crysis on it instead of stupid doom and shared the details with the community. You forgot to bring that up, right?

Congrats! Your changes will not be accepted, though: https://docs.nura.eco/policies-and-processes/development/ai-policy.html

Not that anyone there would buy or borrow a car to make sure the port isn't a hoax. I know it's just the head unit but I don't know if Android will boot out of chassis (it's usually picky like that) and you said you are kexec-ing.

I'm fascinated by all the humans dunking on the obvious LLM trollbot, over and over again, elsewhere in this post.

No, I didn't. That shit won't run Crysis.

Stop being a dick. You are projecting your dickness onto me.

I know it isn't. But it is a necessary step. And you should know that as well.

The cool part is that they figured out how to interface with it.

Why is everyone just trying to be the bigger asshole? Are you just begging for it because you think I am the biggest prick?

You can run Doom on a fridge. I am not saying the feat isn't admirable. I bet it was tough to get Doom to run on a C64. That's very cool, as is the achievement that this post is about.

I don't understand the itch in your ass.

Yup. You won.

No.

It can be. But I think it's easier to use a limited version of Android. QNX after all is a RTOS.

I'm about to pay 20 dollars for 1 month of Claude, plug that shit into my BYD, and have it hack the shit out of it. I can't code to save my own life, so I guess I'm tossing those 20 bucks over to Dario and see how my car battery melts in the middle of the night (on the cameras, I'll either be sleeping or watching animé).

But does it run Doom?