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Makes And Models => Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ => Topic started by: giacomo on July 16, 2018, 10:53:14 PM

Title: Bluetooth interface with Zero Motorcycle
Post by: giacomo on July 16, 2018, 10:53:14 PM

Hello,

Does anyone has some SW experience interfacing with Zero motorcycle through bluetooth?

I am looking to a simple way to read the SOC or Battery voltage through bluetooth. I am guessing they use SPP profile to communicate with the App.

I will use it on a rasberryPI to stop charging at the desired SOC or Voltage level.

Thanks,
Giacomo

Title: Re: Bluetooth interface with Zero Motorcycle
Post by: BrianTRice@gmail.com on July 16, 2018, 11:02:24 PM

The bike has a protocol over BLE, not Bluetooth SPP. It’s a custom binary message encoding.

Available existing apps for the Zero:
https://zeromanual.com/index.php/Mobile_Applications

Android apps can be fielded without permission from Zero to use this interface, so it has a lead compared to iOS.

Title: Re: Bluetooth interface with Zero Motorcycle
Post by: giacomo on July 17, 2018, 02:03:20 AM

Thanks Brian,

I guess there is no info available around been proprietary.

If anyone has some extra info I would appreciate it :).
I don't like to spend time try to reverse engineer ...

Thanks,
Giacomo

Title: Re: Bluetooth interface with Zero Motorcycle
Post by: BrianTRice@gmail.com on July 17, 2018, 02:15:25 AM

It has been reverse engineered, but the results have not been published, only used in code. I would like to have it published as well, because Zero's app is not satisfactory for a number of purposes and I'm tired of waiting for them to field a real update.