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?