Land Rover Freelander 2 > 2012 - Infotainment System

Work in progress

A Electron-Vite-React App to one day replace the Infotainment Module of my Freelander 2!

Features

- Decode IDs from the Medium Speed Can-Bus network
    - Work in progress
    - VIN Decoding
        - Parse the VIN and decode the age/make/model of the vehicle
        - The first time the app launches, this will take a moment to configure
- Decode IDs from the "Entertainment Bus"
    - The special bus between the "Audio Head Unit" and the Headunit Display
    - Decipher Radio Source (FM/DAB/AM/Aux/BT/[CD Pending])
    - Radio Station Name + Additional RDS Data
    - Volume Level (Pops up when using the cars original hardware rotary switch)
    - Bluetooth Media Song Title/Artist
- Personalise the theme settings
- Create a CanDump from the vehicles MS/HS CanBus (used for debugging and development)

Upcoming Features

- Apple CarPlay/Android Auto integration
- Car Configuration File parsing
    - ~~The app will then only show options relevent to the current vehicle~~ TBC .. Is it needed?
- Bluetooth connection
    - Notifications
    - Music

Install

1. Make sure RPi is running latest version

2. Install NodeJs: This has only been tested on the latest 20.10.0

3. Install CanUtils: sudo apt-get -y install can-utils libsocketcan2 libsocketcan-dev

4. Modify /boot/config.txt to include

   • CAN bus controllers

   dtparam=spi=on
   dtoverlay=mcp2515-can1,oscillator=16000000,interrupt=25
   dtoverlay=mcp2515-can0,oscillator=16000000,interrupt=23
   

5. Modify /etc/rc.local to include the next lines BEFORE "exit 0"

   sudo /sbin/ip link set can1 up type can bitrate 500000
   sudo /sbin/ip link set can0 up type can bitrate 125000
   

6. Reboot Pi

7. Download FLos Repo

8. run npm i

9. Run npm run + either

   • pi64-build - For RPi 4 - 4GB+ (npm run pi64-build)
   • pi32-build - For Rpi 3 or Rpi 4 < 4GB (npm run pi32-build)
   • electron-build - For Ubuntu (Testing ONLY) (npm run electron-build)
     • This requires an additional step, see below

10. Locate the /dist folder and run the .AppImage

Local Host vCAN for Testing

sudo /sbin/ip link set can1 down

sudo /sbin/ip link set can1 up type can bitrate 125000

Can also be tested on Ubuntu by running the same commands above but this needs to be ran before loading AppImage: (Can be copied and pasted in one go)

sudo modprobe vcan && sudo ip link add dev can0 type vcan && sudo ip link add dev can1 type vcan && sudo ip link set up can0 && sudo ip link set up can1 && sudo modprobe can-gw && sudo cangw -A -s can0 -d can1 -e && sudo cangw -A -s can1 -d can0 -e