ECU Diagnostic Software Re-Write

[C3BER]

You can have my order right now.

[optimax sniffer]

Well done, bloody good work

:nextphonemaybeandroid:

[aide]

julian64 said:

Its an old HTC desire. Was using GPS data for positioning, but it jumps around too much to use for flight at the mo.

Have you looked into bluetooth, its fairly easy to get the com running once a bluetooth connection is established, and it would allow you to be more hands free with the phone.

It seems to be the preferred option with OBD in these car monitering devices you can use. If you look on the andriod store for 'torque' I run that for the BMW and it gives pretty much everything your talking about but for obd cars rather than the MBE. Howvever I'm sure making your system duplicate it for the MBE would be a good seller.

PPS the MBE you bought on ebay, was it the locked TVR version or the open anycar mapping system?

The HTC desire might be a bit heavy for a helicopter as well?

I have an rs232 bluetooth dongle - I'll release support for it in v2 or v3..

The torque app is great, I have it for my other car, one very useful features it has is the ability to show the min/max values seen on a dial.

I have a stack of ecu's at home, my wife will probably divorce me if I buy another one!

[julian64]

aide said:

The HTC desire might be a bit heavy for a helicopter as well?

Its a very big Heli

[gruffalo]

question, WHEN!!!!!!

[aide]

gruffalo said:

question, WHEN!!!!!!

I should have a demo version ready for Chatsworth

eta: 3h1t! did I just say that out loud!

Edited by aide on Wednesday 17th April 17:14

[C3BER]

I'm sending the wife into the house at that point.

[aide]

Sitting in bumper to bumper up hill traffic on Western Avenue, on my way to Ace Cafe, with my S3 looking at coolant temperature in real time from the ecu..

[Ant.]

aide said:

Sitting in bumper to bumper up hill traffic on Western Avenue, on my way to Ace Cafe, with my S3 looking at coolant temperature in real time from the ecu..

Add me to the list!!!!

[gruffalo]

aide said:

gruffalo said:

question, WHEN!!!!!!

I should have a demo version ready for Chatsworth

eta: 3h1t! did I just say that out loud!

Edited by aide on Wednesday 17th April 17:14

I would like details of how to order as well please although I need to get an Android phone as well:-)

[aide]

gruffalo said:

aide said:

gruffalo said:

question, WHEN!!!!!!

I should have a demo version ready for Chatsworth

eta: 3h1t! did I just say that out loud!

Edited by aide on Wednesday 17th April 17:14

I would like details of how to order as well please although I need to get an Android phone as well:-)

Once version 1 is finished I'll release it on the Android Play Store.

I designed it to run on my Samsung Galaxy S3, so if you haven't got an Android phone you can't really get much better than the S3. (Ok, there is a newer S4 out, but the best thing about it is that it will make the S3 Cheap!)

[alex_gray255]

Looking forward to seeing it!

I use "dash command" and "torque" for my Lotus and was thinking about something in this area for the TVR as well.

[Jhonno]

aide said:

Once version 1 is finished I'll release it on the Android Play Store.

I designed it to run on my Samsung Galaxy S3, so if you haven't got an Android phone you can't really get much better than the S3. (Ok, there is a newer S4 out, but the best thing about it is that it will make the S3 Cheap!)

What about an N4..?

[aide]

alex_gray255 said:

Looking forward to seeing it!

I use "dash command" and "torque" for my Lotus and was thinking about something in this area for the TVR as well.

Thanks Alex, I haven't seen dash command. I do use Torque for my XJR which is pretty good. This app is new so Version 1 won't be near as polished as Torque etc.. but the nice thing is that since there is a small community of users I'll be able to releae features and updates to cover all requests pretty easily. (Bearing in mind that I wrote it for my Cerbera so I guess feature requests from your guys should interest me as well!)

[aide]

Jhonno said:

What about an N4..?

Do you mean a google nexus 4?

[alex_gray255]

aide said:

Thanks Alex, I haven't seen dash command. I do use Torque for my XJR which is pretty good. This app is new so Version 1 won't be near as polished as Torque etc.. but the nice thing is that since there is a small community of users I'll be able to releae features and updates to cover all requests pretty easily. (Bearing in mind that I wrote it for my Cerbera so I guess feature requests from your guys should interest me as well!)

Dash command has some nice features in it...

http://www.palmerperformance.com/products/dashcomm...

Also allows you to work with different skins, plus muck around with the ECU and TCU settings, clear faults etc.

If you are after feature ideas

Edited by alex_gray255 on Saturday 20th April 18:42

[aide]

alex_gray255 said:

Dash command has some nice features in it...

http://www.palmerperformance.com/products/dashcomm...

Also allows you to work with different skins, plus muck around with the ECU and TCU settings, clear faults etc.

If you are after feature ideas

I might have a look at that later as it wouldn’t do any harm to check it out.

I've written this new app from scratch in Python, C and Java.

Version 1 will more than likely be just a like-for-like of the original– i.e. functionally the same as the old except displayed on a new GUI.

I have a few ideas (and requests) for features that I'll add in due course.

[alex_gray255]

I could port it/rewrite it for the iphone too if enough people are interested and I have the time.

Porting it to Objective C would not be too complex as long as I have the necessary MBE data.

And before people jump down my throat saying DO IT, I am only thinking out-loud and only if I get the time...

[Jhonno]

aide said:

Jhonno said:

What about an N4..?

Do you mean a google nexus 4?

Yup..

[V8 GRF]

julian64 said:

Aide, interested in how you are interfacing with the MBE. Is this an add on bluetooth 232 dongle, or are you actually attaching wires to the bottom of your phone.

The nine pin plug in the MBE is simple RS232 and to my knowledge that doesn't come out of a mobile phone to use.

Only asking cos I have a project I have been trying to do where a mobile phone is stuck onto a radio contorlled helicopter and it would be very useful if RS232 was available.

As I see it your software would need to be supplied with the means to attach. I'm just not clear fro mthe thread how that happens.

If you wanted to use the phone for recording translations something like this might be of interest rather than using a phone?

http://www.invensense.com/index.html