Footwell lights not working

eneka said:
huh, I swear I've noticed the ambient footwell and under console lighting on my '19 BEV and never thought they were too dim; I generally turn all lights to the lowest setting anyway haha.
Gonna go check later tonight to see how mine are!

Keep us updated on the headunit mod! Love tinker with things as well.

FYI honda does have official resources for their maintenance and electrical manuals, though you do have to pay for them. Used to be able to get OEM Service manuals on ebay for cheap when dealers retired them, but they've transitioned to all online now.
https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/logon.aspx?AHM=y&logout=Y&ValidUser=
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Fyi this has jumped from $10/day to $25. Still worth it IMO.

In the last hours of my 24 I did go back in and get the schematicsfor the drive shift control pad. Will post from desktop.


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just a better shot for Ekena so he can see the difference. The center console light is much more visible now.

full smal.webp
 
Mitter__Mitch said:
BTW the android system is running a little slow so I just took a look and it is SD card based. The older Hondas were SDHC memory so I think that I might have a go at replacing the 4G sd with a larger 32 FAT formatted SD card. The extra size is not important. It is the 100MB/sec speed plus A1 file access random seek times that matter. It my make the head unit faster. Not all speed problems are the fault of the processor. Very often they are the storage system. I just may get better boot times.
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Where's the card slot? Under the console?
 
OK, here are the schematics for the shifter.

Mitter_Mitch, any chance you could check the footwell lighting schematic sent earlier and confirm that the "blue wire" you put to ground to brighten the footwell is the shared sink from all the LEDs?

P.S. There were also some documents I found about the gearing and shifting philosophy. Will post in a separate thread.
 

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And the details of the Gear schematic:
 

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Mitter__Mitch said:
Greek? Nope, that's just good old silicon valley talk. I am a HW engineer and do some work for Volkswagen and Tesla. You can tell I am an engineer because I own a Volt and a Clarity. :)

BTW the android system is running a little slow so I just took a look and it is SD card based. The older Hondas were SDHC memory so I think that I might have a go at replacing the 4G sd with a larger 32 FAT formatted SD card. The extra size is not important. It is the 100MB/sec speed plus A1 file access random seek times that matter. It my make the head unit faster. Not all speed problems are the fault of the processor. Very often they are the storage system. I just may get better boot times.
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That is one thing I really would like to replace if I knew what connector I needed to hook a new tablet to the car and just clone Honda's apps for the radio and TPMS and various vehicle settings (which I assume are via some USB-CAN adapter behind the thing). Would be nice to put a modern tablet in there that performs less like molasses (and especially isn't an Android version that has posted bluejacking CVEs)...
 
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It's funny but I have a Volt too and if I put the USB flash drive for itunes in the usb connector the volt's head slows waaaay down so I looked at my Clarity and sure enough I had moved the usb stick from the volt to the clarity and when I pulled it out I got much better boot times and response. I will take it apart to see if there is a path towards improvement, but fist I want to do the automatic sport/regen change.
 
Mitter__Mitch said:
359,

It's funny but I have a Volt too and if I put the USB flash drive for itunes in the usb connector the volt's head slows waaaay down so I looked at my Clarity and sure enough I had moved the usb stick from the volt to the clarity and when I pulled it out I got much better boot times and response. I will take it apart to see if there is a path towards improvement, but fist I want to do the automatic sport/regen change.
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Sorry Mitch, excuse my technological illiteracy, I got a bit lost. What do you mean with "USB flash drive for iTunes?" I tried to find out in my iTunes (Windows) and didn't see any option for creating that. Is it something you do on a Mac? How is that different from a regular USB drive with .mp3 files? On the other hand I'm extremely interested in whatever you do to improve the Android tablet. Thanks!
 
Yes I moved my iTunes library to the USB on my Mac. The tablet slows down because every time you reboot the processor re-indexes the contents of the USB drive. Since I have 21 GB of music on a 32 GB usb drive this takes quite a while and ties up the head unit. It would be better if upon completion of the indexing they wrote a index file, but that would disallow for new content so I guess that is why they don't do it. Anyway, if you just have a few MB of songs it shouldn't be too noticeable.
 
The jumper overriding the PWM for the panel lights doesn't affect the LCD back panel lights. I am still enjoying the effect so this mod is a keeper.
 
Mitter__Mitch said:
Yes I moved my iTunes library to the USB on my Mac. The tablet slows down because every time you reboot the processor re-indexes the contents of the USB drive. Since I have 21 GB of music on a 32 GB usb drive this takes quite a while and ties up the head unit. It would be better if upon completion of the indexing they wrote a index file, but that would disallow for new content so I guess that is why they don't do it. Anyway, if you just have a few MB of songs it shouldn't be too noticeable.
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Thank you. I see you moved the entire library. That wouldn't work for me, I have a 120GB library. I was thinking of "exporting" select playlists from iTunes to a 16 or 32 GB drive but I couldn't find a way. I currently use a 16 GB drive with around 10GB of music that I have to "manually update once I heard everything on it, which is tiresome.
 
petteyg359 said:
That is one thing I really would like to replace if I knew what connector I needed to hook a new tablet to the car and just clone Honda's apps for the radio and TPMS and various vehicle settings (which I assume are via some USB-CAN adapter behind the thing). Would be nice to put a modern tablet in there that performs less like molasses (and especially isn't an Android version that has posted bluejacking CVEs)...
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That would be a not-so-small step for men but a great lap for Humanity! Can you keep us posted of any progress?
 
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