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



I just received mine the other day, however they told me there was OSX software
on the disk which there is not.
An iPhone App would be excellent. Haven't fund one yet.

Steve Izett
Perth Western Australia


There are 2 apps for the iPhone, OBDspy mobil runs on Java, so I would guess
that any phone with Java should work
http://www.obdspy.es/obdspy/obdspy_mobile.php although they list only certain
models.

The trick is you have to really dig around the Internet to find other software.
As far as the basic tool running on the net book, I think the trick is to shut
down the PIDs that aren't in use. I'll be playing with this for a while, testing
software etc. Right now I'm collecting links, and downloads for later testing.
Gotta be careful, as I don't want to install any malware.
C. Smith


Correction!
Don't mean to beat this to death, but found that iPhone apps need a wiFi reader,
does not support BlueTooth for some reason. Sorry for misinformation.
C. Smith


Thanks
So maybe the iPhone is no good with the Elm bluetooth.
I'll keep looking then for some OSX software.

Steve Izett