How to Show Oil Temp on Facelift Cars with Telemetrics

[Rob_RCF]

After I bought my GT I became convinced the Alpine Telemetrics option was a waste of money due to the apparent lack of oil temperature readout (which is the main reason I spec'd it). I did look for it a few times and it was certainly nowhere obvious. I asked around at meets and such, no one I spoke to knew how to get it to show up on the facelifted cars. Well today I decided to have a more thorough dive through the telemetrics software, and low and behold it does have oil temp, it's just a bit hidden away. Here's what it looks like:



I realise this is probably old news to some, but for anyone else like me who has looked for it to no avail, here's the procedure. And yes the Telemetrics software and UI is a bit annoying and unintuitive, but it's not too bad once you know what to do.

1. Start your engine first, then open Alpine Telemetrics.
2. You have 4 screens you can swipe left and right to change. I'd recommend staying on the first screen for your oil temp so it shows up straight away the next time you open the app.
3. Press the 3 dots at the bottom left and go to "Widgets configuration".
4. Press the lower icon which looks like two boxes. Now press one of the "edit" icons depending on which side you want to show oil temp.
5. Here you will see a load of options to pick from. Make sure you swipe over to the second page, this is where oil temp is hiding.
6. Add something to the other side if you want. There are three pages worth of options so take your pick.
7. Finally click "Save" and admire your live oil temperature display.

Another tip, if you use Android Auto or Apple Carplay it kind of takes over your infotainment screen. You can go to what looks like the app menu at the bottom right and then click "Alpine" which will put you back into the main Alpine software. Then you can access Telemetrics without having to disconnect from Android Auto.

Also although you need your engine running to start up the Telemetrics app, once the app has loaded fully you can actually shut off the engine and the app will stay open while you configure it.

[Terminator X]

Adam from Winchester set up my oil temp display before I left the dealership!

TX.

Ps is there tyre temps anywhere?

[Hoofty]

Terminator X said:

Ps is there tyre temps anywhere?

There won't be, sorry - the sensor set just isn't there (and I'd be amazed if it was on any road car as they need mounting to suspension uprights to read consistently across a tyre - bit of a frailty and package nightmare).

Nick

[igzorn]

The data of the TPMS can be acquired via OBD, so technically they could be made available in telematics. One can read them via Torque pro and an BT OBD dongle. Unfortunately, there is only little room to leave it permanently installed.

[Rob_RCF]

Terminator X said:

Adam from Winchester set up my oil temp display before I left the dealership!

TX.

Ps is there tyre temps anywhere?

Yeah it's one of the things I should have asked about when I picked up the car, but it was a big day for me and "minor" things like showing the oil temp were just not in the forefront of my mind I guess.

Couldn't see tyre temp anywhere unfortunately.

igzorn said:

The data of the TPMS can be acquired via OBD, so technically they could be made available in telematics. One can read them via Torque pro and an BT OBD dongle. Unfortunately, there is only little room to leave it permanently installed.

Huh, it's news to me that the TPMS have temp sensors built in. I guess it won't be as accurate as Cup 2's sensors which are built into the back of the tread material, but still, would at least give an indication or how "warmed up" the tyres are.

[igzorn]

I ran a similar setup in my MX-5 before. The MX-5 was very sensible to tyre pressure. Seeing the tyres got warm is quite nice as well.
Source for the PID: https://forum.alpinerenault.com/viewtopic.php?t=40...
You can put these data into a CSV to import them into torque. Mine looks like this:

"Name", "ShortName", "ModeAndPID", "Equation", "Min Value", "Max Value", "Units", "Header", "startDiagnostic", "stopDiagnostic", "scale","minimumRefreshDelayMillis"
"Brake Pressure","Pressure KPa","0x22223e","A",0,0,"KPa","","","",1,0
"Current Gear","cGear","0x222c04","A-7",0,0,"-","","","",1,0
"Next Gear","nGear","0x222c03","A",0,0,"-","","","",1,0
"Steering Angle","Angle","0x220104","180-180*((A*256+B)-32768)/32768",0,0,"-","742","","",1,0
"Temp EGR","T° EGR","0x221143","A-50",0,0,"°C","745","","",1,0
"Tyre Pressure 1","P1 mBar","0x228010","7.5*(A*256+B)",0,0,"mbar ","745","","",1,0
"Tyre Pressure 2","P2 mBar","0x228017","7.5*(A*256+B)",0,0,"mbar ","745","","",1,0
"Tyre Pressure 3","P3 mBar","0x228024","7.5*(A*256+B)",0,0,"mbar ","745","","",1,0
"Tyre Pressure 4","P4 mBar","0x228031","7.5*(A*256+B)",0,0,"mbar ","745","","",1,0
"Tyre Temp 1","Temp. Tyre 1","0x228011","A-30",0,0,"°C","745","","",1,0
"Tyre Temp 2","Temp. Tyre 2","0x228018","A-30",0,0,"°C","745","","",1,0
"Tyre Temp 3","Temp. Tyre 3","0x228025","A-30",0,0,"°C","745","","",1,0
"Tyre Temp 4","Temp. Tyre 4","0x228032","A-30",0,0,"°C","745","","",1,0
"Voltage","Bat. V","0x221103","A",0,0,"V","","","",1,0
"Time","HH:DD","0x222500","A*60+B",0,0,"Min","","","",1,0
"Oil Temp","T° Mot.","0x22111f","A-50",0,0,"°C","745","","",1,0