Mini Cooper SE

Vehicle Type: Mini Cooper SE

This vehicle type supports the Mini Cooper SE. All model years should be supported.

The OVMS support was developed Nov 2022 from the BMW i3 module.

As of this release this vehicle support is read-only and cannot send commands to the car.

Support Overview

“tba” item are still on the to-do list and are not currently supported.

Function Support Status
Hardware Any OVMS v3 (or later) module.
Vehicle Cable OBD-II cable: left-handed cable worked best in my RHD car
GSM Antenna 1000500 Open Vehicles OVMS GSM Antenna (or any compatible antenna)
GPS Antenna 1020200 Universal GPS Antenna (or any compatible antenna)
SOC Display Yes
Range Display Yes
Cabin Pre-heat/cool Control tba
GPS Location Yes (from modem module GPS)
Speed Display Yes
Temperature Display Yes
BMS v+t Display Yes (including individual cells and modules)
TPMS Display tba
Charge Status Display Yes
Charge Interruption Alerts Yes
Charge Control tba
Lock/Unlock Vehicle tba
Valet Mode Control No
Others 12v battery voltage/current, battery true SOC, etc

WARNINGS

12V Battery drain

The Mini Cooper SE has a small 20Ah AGM 12v battery. Whilst care has been taken to minimize OVMS’ power usage, OVMS could eventually drain this battery if the car is left unplugged and locked. OVMS will also send an alert if 12V drops under 12V alert threshold. (See 12V Calibration section).

HOWEVER: If you are going to leave the car for a fews days, it is recommended to unplug OVMS.

Car status

The car is accessible over the OBD-II port when it is running (ignition on) and for a short time (40 seconds or so) after it is turned off or the car is “tweaked” (lock button pushed, connected-drive command received, etc).

Unfortunately this means that when your car is standing or charging OVMS only has intermittent access to data from the car.

By observation, whilst the car is charging it wakes up now and then (seems to be every 30 minutes). So at those times we can update our SOC etc.

Metrics “v.e.awake” tells you if the car is awake or not. Metric “xms.s.age” will tell you how many minutes have passed since we last received data from the car.

You may also refer to metric xms.s.pollermode as follows:

Mode Meaning
0 Car is asleep - no OBD-II data traffic
1 Car OBD-II is awake - we are seeing data traffic
2 Car is ready to drive or driving
3 Car is charging

Custom metrics

Metric name Example value Description
xms.s.age 5Min How long since we last got data from the car
xms.s.pollermode 0 OBD-II polling mode as explained above
xms.v.b.p.ocv.avg 4.0646V Main battery pack - average open-circuit voltage
xms.v.b.p.ocv.max 4.067V Main battery pack - highest open-circuit voltage
xms.v.b.p.ocv.min 4.063V Main battery pack - lowest open-circuit voltage
xms.v.b.range.bc 245km Available range per trip computer (based on current driving mode and style)
xms.v.b.range.comfort 217km Available range if you use Comfort mode
xms.v.b.range.ecopro 245km Available range if you use EcoPro mode
xms.v.b.range.ecoproplus 247km Available range if you use EcoPro+ mode
xms.v.b.soc.actual 85% Actual physical state-of-charge of the main battery pack
xms.v.b.soc.actual.highlimit 93.7% Highest physical charge level permitted (shown as 100% SOC)
xms.v.b.soc.actual.lowlimit 10.5% Minimum physical charge level permitted (shown as 0% SOC)
xms.v.c.chargecablecapacity 0A Maximum power capacity of connected charge cable per the charging interface
xms.v.c.chargeledstate 0 Colour of the “ring light” on the charging interface.
xms.v.c.chargeplugstatus Not connected Charging cable connected?
xms.v.c.current.dc 0A Power flowing on the DC side of the AC charger
xms.v.c.current.dc.limit 0.100003A Limit
xms.v.c.current.dc.maxlimit 16A Maximum limit
xms.v.c.current.phase1 0A Power being drawn on AC phase 1
xms.v.c.current.phase2 0A Power being drawn on AC phase 2
xms.v.c.current.phase3 0A Power being drawn on AC phase 3
xms.v.c.dc.chargevoltage 0V Voltage seen on the DC charger input
xms.v.c.dc.contactorstatus open DC contactor state (closed implies we are DC charging)
xms.v.c.dc.controlsignals 0 DC charger control signals (always see 0?)
xms.v.c.dc.inprogress no DC charging in progress?
xms.v.c.dc.plugconnected no Is DC charger plug connected (doesn’t seem to work)
xms.v.c.deratingreasons 0 Reasons why charging rate is derated
xms.v.c.error 0 Charging error codes
xms.v.c.failsafetriggers 0 Failsafe trigger reasons
xms.v.c.interruptionreasons 0 Charging interruption reasons
xms.v.c.pilotsignal 0A Charge rate pilot signal being received from EVSE
xms.v.c.readytocharge no Are we ready to charge
xms.v.c.temp.gatedriver 40°C Charger gatedrive mosfet temperature
xms.v.c.voltage.dc 8.4V Charger output DC voltage being seen (for AC charging, not DC)
xms.v.c.voltage.dc.limit 420V Maximum permitted DC voltge
xms.v.c.voltage.phase1 0V Voltage seen on AC charger input phase 1
xms.v.c.voltage.phase2 0V Voltage seen on AC charger input phase 2
xms.v.c.voltage.phase3 0V Voltage seen on AC charger input phase 3
xms.v.d.chargeport.dc no Is the charger port DC cover open (doesn’t seem to work)
xms.v.e.autorecirc no Ventilation is in “auto-recirculate” mode
xms.v.e.obdtraffic no Are we seeing OBD-II frames from the car?
xms.v.p.tripconsumption 127Wh/km Average consumption for the current or most recent trip
xms.v.p.wheel1_speed 0km/h Wheel 1 speed
xms.v.p.wheel2_speed 0km/h Wheel 2 speed
xms.v.p.wheel3_speed 0km/h Wheel 3 speed
xms.v.p.wheel4_speed 0km/h Wheel 4 speed
xms.v.p.wheel_speed 0km/h Average wheel speed

To be researched

Can we start/stop charging?

Can we pre-heat?

Can we lock/unlock the car?

Can we disable the OBD-II alarm

Still looking for the trip regen kWh

Can we get the voltage state of each individual cells rather than just the battery min / max / average?