Standalone motorized seats from a BMW?

Hello,

I am looking for a simple way to be able to electrically adjust (fully electric) seats from a BMW 1 Series outside of the vehicle. It sounds very absurd, but I have two seats from a well-equipped 1 Series that was totaled, and I want to attach them to a base in my home office using the mounting rails .

'Simple' electric seats directly control the motors via a panel on the seat itself. However, in this case, it seems that the information from the button controls is first sent via CAN bus to a control unit, which then generates the motor signals (likely due to features like seat memory or similar).

Has anyone in this forum had any experience with this? I could also imagine using an ARDUINO or a Raspberry Pi as a 'replacement control unit' .

Greetings to everyone.
C.

An Arduino with a CAN shield should work if you send the correct messages (wake-up signal, ignition on, etc.).