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audi-mlb-evo-lin

Reverse-engineered LIN bus protocol of Audi MLB evo (B9 A4/A5/Q5/Q7) — center console switch panel E791: frame maps, CRC-8/AUTOSAR, rolling counter

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Details

External ID
1363584540
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
audi-mlb-evo-lin
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Sept. 10, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
8
Upvotes percentile
0.14045078527754465
Tags
audi, audi-b9, automotive, car-hacking, embedded, lin, lin-bus, mlb-evo, reverse-engineering, vag
Fetched at
Sept. 14, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 14, 2026, 5:29 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
custom CarPlay and infotainment mods
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
lin bus protocol documentation for audi switch panels
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Reverse-engineering vehicle bus protocols requires physical automotive hardware, specialized oscilloscopes or transceivers, and manual packet sniffing.

What it would actually take: Building this requires physical access to an Audi MLB evo vehicle or standalone E791 console module connected to a hardware LIN/CAN transceiver and logic analyzer. The developer must physically capture raw bus frames while actuating buttons, then reverse-engineer the proprietary payload layout, AUTOSAR CRC-8 polynomials, and rolling counter logic through manual signal analysis. This requires automotive engineering and embedded systems reverse-engineering expertise.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #20 of 29 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 199 days after the earliest competitor.

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