Introducing Bluepilot! A Ford specific fork for Comma3X / OpenPilot

[scott011422]

I do not. I'm all permanent installed using the provided cables. I am also using the OBD power cable. I can unplug the cable from the Comma, wait 10 seconds and plug it back in and everything is fine. So figured a reseat might be good.

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[H2OSki]

I am pretty consistently getting two issues. The first issue is my Comma 3X when it boots up will sometimes go into dashcam mode saying the vehicle isn't recognized. I reboot the device and it might take 2 reboots before it recognizes the vehicle.

I did a search and found a comment saying the Radar Error was a known issue that doesn't have a fix. The second issue is I get an Alarm from the Comma 3X with a screen saying "Take Control Immediately Radar Error: Restart the Car." This error will go away after a few seconds and might come back a few seconds later then go away again and be fine for the rest of the trip.

I have tried reinstalling the latest Bluepilot but the issues still persist.

I had one Comma 3X that died just before the one year warranty and this is the replacement. Any idea of this is a hardware issue or USB-C cable issue?

 

[Ajzride]

I am pretty consistently getting two issues. The first issue is my Comma 3X when it boots up will sometimes go into dashcam mode saying the vehicle isn't recognized. I reboot the device and it might take 2 reboots before it recognizes the vehicle.

Make sure you are selecting your vehicle in the "BluePilot" menu and not the "vehicle". There was a bug in the stock sunny menu that caused it to be intermittent. Using the BluePilot selector should be solid.

I did a search and found a comment saying the Radar Error was a known issue that doesn't have a fix. The second issue is I get an Alarm from the Comma 3X with a screen saying "Take Control Immediately Radar Error: Restart the Car." This error will go away after a few seconds and might come back a few seconds later then go away again and be fine for the rest of the trip.

I have tried reinstalling the latest Bluepilot but the issues still persist.

I had one Comma 3X that died just before the one year warranty and this is the replacement. Any idea of this is a hardware issue or USB-C cable issue?

Usually that is harness or USB-C cable issue if the radar error doesn't clear itself and you have to restart the car. The Q4 IPMA connectors are really tiny, and Comma has had quite a few bad harnesses ship over the years with a loose connection. If a restart is required that means the actual ACC radar generated a DTC (diagnostics trouble code) which usually happens with the canbus comms are interpreted for more than a scan.

 

[scott011422]

So 3 ignition cycles since reseating the cables and no CANBUSS messages. So thats good. Setting the cruise to the speed limit signs is also working now. Have one new issue now that I need to play with to see what's causing it.

On my last 2 trips, When using cruise control ONLY, the truck hits the brakes, lets off, hits the brakes, lets off and so on. I'm out in the middle of nowhere. Nothing on the road. I had no body behind me this morning so I just let it do it and it did it until the truck stopped. Truck does not do it in full self driving mode.

I don't remember the setting, But right before this started I did disable a setting that turned on self driving with the cruise button and the self driving button. it was turning on self driving every time I hit the cruise button. So every time I hit cruise I had to hit the self driving button to turn the self driving off. Every. Time. Now they are separate.



On another note, Is there a way to disable the colored status border on the Comma? The green in full self driving at night is alot, and driving normally it turns purple whenever you are going straight. SO thats constantly flashing purple and grey as you make corrections. Can this just be turned off all together??

 

[Ajzride]

On my last 2 trips, When using cruise control ONLY, the truck hits the brakes, lets off, hits the brakes, lets off and so on. I'm out in the middle of nowhere. Nothing on the road. I had no body behind me this morning so I just let it do it and it did it until the truck stopped. Truck does not do it in full self driving mode.

Were your hands on the wheel?

 

[scott011422]

Were your hands on the wheel?

Yes, I was driving manually, with the steering wheel, Just using cruise control.

 

[Ajzride]

Ford ACC or SunnyPilot Longitudinal control?

 

[scott011422]

Ford ACC or SunnyPilot Longitudinal control?

I'm too new to this, I don't know what that means yet. Still learning all the terms

On that note, Is there a guide or something that describes in detail everything thats going on? Each option and button and so forth?

 

[Ajzride]

Then you are probably using ford ACC. What you describe sounds exactly like what happens when you are using BlueCruise and the Eye nanny gets mad at you (you can find videos on youtube of BlueCruise handles a passed out driver). Normally Comma lateral overrides the eye nanny, i've never tried driving with just ACC and not lateral while the comma is connected. Sounds like perhaps it is confusing the eye nanny system.

 

[scott011422]

Then you are probably using ford ACC. What you describe sounds exactly like what happens when you are using BlueCruise and the Eye nanny gets mad at you (you can find videos on youtube of BlueCruise handles a passed out driver). Normally Comma lateral overrides the eye nanny, i've never tried driving with just ACC and not lateral while the comma is connected. Sounds like perhaps it is confusing the eye nanny system.

I think you on to something there. Back when i first got the truck I ignored the nanny just to see what happened and the truck did stop on its own. I can easily unplug the Comma and ignore it and see exactly how is behaves. If that is the case im surprised I didn't get any notifications. Dash was happy and so was the Comma

 

[Ajzride]

I think you on to something there. Back when i first got the truck I ignored the nanny just to see what happened and the truck did stop on its own. I can easily unplug the Comma and ignore it and see exactly how is behaves. If that is the case im surprised I didn't get any notifications. Dash was happy and so was the Comma

Well the comma is blocking the dash alerts for the hands on wheel and eyes on road because it sends it's own. But those wouldn't kick in if you had lateral disabled and were running ford ACC.

 

[scott011422]

Went out during break. Seems to only do it in town. Once I get out of town it drives normally. Starts acting up once I get back into town. When in town it does it immediately, as soon as I hit the button. I turned off that cruise sync option and that had no effect. I went back into Chill mode and it went away.

When in experimental mode, in town and having this issue, The projected path on the comma is still grey. Its not turning red, so I don't think the comma is seeing driveways as places to stop.

 

[Ajzride]

Went out during break. Seems to only do it in town. Once I get out of town it drives normally. Starts acting up once I get back into town. When in town it does it immediately, as soon as I hit the button. I turned off that cruise sync option and that had no effect. I went back into Chill mode and it went away.

When in experimental mode, in town and having this issue, The projected path on the comma is still grey. Its not turning red, so I don't think the comma is seeing driveways as places to stop.

If it only happens in experimental mode, then it's just the model detecting things wrong. There is a reason it is called experimental and most people rarely use it.

 

[scott011422]

By model, do you mean like Filet-o-Fish and Tomb Raider?

I ask because i did change that the other night, but didn't drive it till yesterday. I was having some Ping-Pong issues and saw on a reddit that changing the model could fix that. Then I found out that the model that installs with bp-4.0 isn't the recommended model.

So right now im running the Filet-o-Fish Liquid Crystal model.

 

[Ajzride]

By model, do you mean like Filet-o-Fish and Tomb Raider?

I ask because i did change that the other night, but didn't drive it till yesterday. I was having some Ping-Pong issues and saw on a reddit that changing the model could fix that. Then I found out that the model that installs with bp-4.0 isn't the recommended model.

So right now im running the Filet-o-Fish Liquid Crystal model.

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