I finally received the Bluetooth OBDII reader that I bought from eBay ($22
shipped). It works just fine. There are several supplied software packages with
it. One called scantool_net, V1.13 is the only one without licensing
requirements. It is a bit rudimentary, giving only straight data numbers for
various sensors in a read sensor mode. No analog gauges or anything like that.
It is however an open source program, so you programming geniuses could probably
get a better go of it. It will read codes and reset them, and give a real time
input of sensor data.I ran it on my netbook, and after the car got moving, I got
a processor usage high message shortly before the program locked up(computer
still running). I am running a lot of other "side bar" monitors on the net book,
and I figure they eat up a lot of the processor overhead. Will try again with
them turned off.
There are also 4 third party OBD programs supplied. They are demo versions and
will require licensing. Haven't tried any of them yet, nor have I tried to use
this on my dual core laptop yet.
It uses the ELM 327 chip. eBay item no. 290518654433
Source forge has a few open source programs on it, again I have not yet tried
them. The scantool program appears to have been "highjacked" and versions later
than 1.13 require proprietary hardware. So much for open source. I'm looking for
more options too as time permits. But for basic code finding and resets, it is
quite a bargain.
C. Smith
Wow that is cool. Blue Tooth OBD II to your cell phone? :)
Paul Lamar
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