willcasp
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- William
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Has anyone built a hardware interface to get into the Uconnect system? I want to understand the garbage that is the USB stack and see if I can fix it myself. I see various adapters to connect third party radios into the uconnect harness, so I think that may be a starting point.
If anyone questions the legality of this, FCA is making it possible by not supporting us. FCA could always do the right thing here, and make the firmware updates available for those of us who did not get factory installed units. The protection is the library of congress three year exemption on DMCA, which they published in 2018...
"The Library of Congress, as part of its three-year review of exemptions to the DMCA, approved an exemption in October 2018 that would allow for one to bypass copyright-protection mechanisms used in either land vehicles, smartphones, and home appliances for the ability to maintain ("to make it work in accordance with its original specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized for that device or system") or repair ("restoring of the device or system to the state of working in accordance with its original specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized for that device or system") the device. (83 FR 54010)[28]"
If anyone questions the legality of this, FCA is making it possible by not supporting us. FCA could always do the right thing here, and make the firmware updates available for those of us who did not get factory installed units. The protection is the library of congress three year exemption on DMCA, which they published in 2018...
"The Library of Congress, as part of its three-year review of exemptions to the DMCA, approved an exemption in October 2018 that would allow for one to bypass copyright-protection mechanisms used in either land vehicles, smartphones, and home appliances for the ability to maintain ("to make it work in accordance with its original specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized for that device or system") or repair ("restoring of the device or system to the state of working in accordance with its original specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized for that device or system") the device. (83 FR 54010)[28]"
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