My plan is to use the CAN bus shield and do all of my control through the Omega. Since I can't connect to the Bluetooth I'm thinking I'm going to use the WiFi and a cellular connection to control it. Someone published the GMLAN Bible which has a comprehensive list of controls and codes for GM cars. I'm going to be installing this in my new Pontiac G8. I'm pretty stoked.

I'll definitely look into Blynk. Thanks!

You can connect to a wireless network and use the cellular connection on your phone at the same time by assigning a static IP but not entering an address for the router. This allows access to devices on that network but your phone will reach out to the web over the cellular connection. Now sharing it to the Omega is a different thing entirely. Maybe setting up personal hotspot?

I'm looking into setting up Hologram for a cellular connection for the Onion itself, as well as a GPS tool. I'm probably getting in way over my head but it's fun to try and figure this out.

So if the Bluetooth option won't work I wonder if I should find a way to connect and control through wifi instead. I can see the network from my iPhone with no trouble.

Thanks Allison! I don't have much code currently. All I have is the following to start up the bluetooth module.

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/hciconfig hci0 up
/usr/bin/hciconfig hci0 piscan
/usr/bin/hciconfig hci0 sspmode 1
/usr/bin/hciconfig hci0 noauth
/usr/bin/hciconfig hci0 leadv 0

The weird thing is that I can use bluetoothctl and pair from the Omega to the phone, but after rebooting the Omega it will not reconnect. I have to go in and pair it again from the Omega end.

Long story short my goal is to interface with canbus in my car and get control of some of the features that aren't easily accessible otherwise. I have a friend that is versed in Arduino and canbus, but not the Omega.

Hey all, this is my first attempt at anything IoT or Linux so I'm a level 1 newbie. The problem I'm having is that I can discover, pair and connect my Omega2+ to my Windows PC with external Bluetooth dongle but none of the 4 iPhones (different models and software) cannot discover the Omega. What am I missing?

I've got a shell script that starts up Bluetooth at boot. I've tried changing the class thinking that Apple will only connect to certain classes. That didn't do it. Any help? Thanks in advance!