Tinkla Buddy

Coming Soon

Tinkla Buddy is now in beta stage. Info coming soon!

Creating the SD card

• On Windows PCs you can use Win32DiskImager to create to burn the image to the SD card for your Tinkla Buddy.
• On Linux flavors (including Mac OS) you can just use the dd command.

dd if=tinkla_buddy.img of=/dev/dse status=progress

where tinkla_buddy.img is the name of the disk image you downloaded from this site and /dev/sde is the device corresponding to your SD card mounted on Linux.

Disk Images

Please select the appropriate image for your device.

Device	Image	MD5sum
R1S H5	v1.21-H5 (built 03/20/2020)	6cafad602e2a07d87116f144862935e9
R1S H3	v1.22-H3 (built 03/22/2020)	38181aa0f508f2e599806e9a94ade3ca

Note: the image file is very large (650+ Mb compressed) and will take some time to download. Also, depending on the speed of your SD card, it may take a long time to burn.

History

v1.21

• Fixes issue with starting persistence mode
• LEDs now show status of tinklaBuddy and availability of valid cert

v1.20

• Menu button trigger for Tinkla Menu for older (LIN based) steering wheel controls
• Fixes brightness control
• Resolves issue with crash when car would go in sleep mode

Buddy Installation

The hardest part of installing a Tinkla Buddy is finding an always-on power source. The three most viable options are (a) if you have a Tesla with the Cold Weather package there is a fuse box near the accelerator which makes this a 30 minute install, (b) if you have a fuse box behind the passenger kick panel (2016 and later) and you'll need to re-crimp your 12v red wire for an hour install, or (c) if you don't have a fuse box in the cabin pull a wire through a gasket on the firewall behind the washer fluid reservoir in the Frunk which can take 1-2 hours.

Tesla w/Cold Weather Package

If you have a Tesla with the Cold Weather package then there is a fuse box near the accelerator which makes this a 30 minute install.

Tesla built 2016+

If you have a 20016 or later Tesla then there should be a fuse box behind the passenger kick panel and you'll need to re-crimp your 12v red wire whhich will make this about an hour install.

Tesla w/o Fuse Box in Cabin

If you don't have a fuse box in the cabin then pull a wire through a gasket on the firewall behind the washer fluid reservoir in the Frunk. Depending on your method of poking a hole in the gasket and your method of pulling your 16-18 gauge wire through your hole, this can take between 1-2 hours if not longer.

Tools required:

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