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Well hang on there! When the Camaro v5 first came out (2009) there was a pretty decent online community and what we discovered was dealers were completely unrea

Well hang on there! When the Camaro v5 first came out (2009) there was a pretty decent online community and what we discovered was dealers were completely unready to handle software updating and versioning. At the time, iPod/ iPhone/ general mp3 player software kept having breaking updates, so being able to obtain car stereo updates was important but impossible for large portions of the user base. Which is how I wound up downloading 2 files from a person who apparently wrote the C# code for the radios and was saddened by the situation. The weirdest part was doing the upgrade: stick the files on two usb keys, turn the car on, stick the first key in the one port, remove it, open the driver side door as an indicator and then finish with the second key. I've thought about that level of ... security every time I read about some malicious car hack.

runlevel1 5y ago
> turn the car on, stick the first key in the one port, remove it, open the driver side door as an indicator and then finish with the second key I'm reminded of the farcical firmware reset procedure for C by GE Light Bulbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo Though, in GE's defense, light bulbs do have a pretty limited interface.
- dwaltrip 5y ago
  Such a crazy process heh. I'm guessing it would cost too much to add a physical button for factory resetting?
- xmprt 5y ago
  That video made me laugh. It almost sounds like a parody of a reset procedure. Every time you expect it to be done, he comes back with another cycle of off for 2 seconds and on for 8 seconds. It's also unfortunate that the dislike button stopped working on YouTube because I'd love to see how many people disliked that.
  - Noturos 5y ago
    Using the Return Youtube Dislike extension tells me that it is sitting at 12k dislikes to the 11k likes.
- smarx007 5y ago
  -.-.-.-.-. or 1010101010, sounds right to me when you only have a 1-wire control. Though 10 signals/bits may be a bit excessive? Though .-....-, Morse for RST, should have been enough.
- JKCalhoun 5y ago
  When your input device is a car door...

runlevel1 5y ago

> turn the car on, stick the first key in the one port, remove it, open the driver side door as an indicator and then finish with the second key I'm reminded of the farcical firmware reset procedure for C by GE Light Bulbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo Though, in GE's defense, light bulbs do have a pretty limited interface.

dwaltrip 5y ago
Such a crazy process heh. I'm guessing it would cost too much to add a physical button for factory resetting?
xmprt 5y ago
That video made me laugh. It almost sounds like a parody of a reset procedure. Every time you expect it to be done, he comes back with another cycle of off for 2 seconds and on for 8 seconds. It's also unfortunate that the dislike button stopped working on YouTube because I'd love to see how many people disliked that.
- Noturos 5y ago
  Using the Return Youtube Dislike extension tells me that it is sitting at 12k dislikes to the 11k likes.
smarx007 5y ago
-.-.-.-.-. or 1010101010, sounds right to me when you only have a 1-wire control. Though 10 signals/bits may be a bit excessive? Though .-....-, Morse for RST, should have been enough.
JKCalhoun 5y ago
When your input device is a car door...