Car Puter

[joshhorn16]

I have been researching this for ages lol the best way is to get wats knowen as a thin client pc and then just wipe the operating system. the reason i use this is because instead of using standard 220v its normally power by a 220v AC to 12v DC so that means that yu can just cut the cable (its a ver generic connector) and then wire it to your 12v in yur car. For the screen i also wanted to use a double din but i had no way of puttting the video signal into it.

[AdamOst]

What cable did you use to connect? i cant get my phone to pick up the obd2 data over a bluetooth adapter, it says connected but shows no data. Romraider on my laptop just says "unable to receive ecu init" please check cable etc.

[Kiwi_Fozze]

You need either a tactrix cable or a vag-com cable version 1.3 or newer

[AdamOst]

One of these cables? http://evoscan.limitless.co.nz/evoscan-gps-obdii-cables/details/15/1/performance-vehicle-pc-diagnostic-interfaces/openport-13u-universal-usb-datalogging-and-reflashing-cable

-e- or since i dont need reflashing or anything, this will work im assuming? http://evoscan.limitless.co.nz/evoscan-gps-obdii-cables/details/13/1/performance-vehicle-pc-diagnostic-interfaces/openport-13d-usb-obdii/mutiii/ssmii-datalogging-cable

[Kiwi_Fozze]

should work. however:

http://www.tactrix.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=17&category_id=6&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=53

designed to work directly with rom raider

[AdamOst]

hmm 77$nz vs 170US$

[Kiwi_Fozze]

170 us WILL work though, and future proofing yourself, cas it will reflash right up to and including the can-bus models.

[joshhorn16]

 AdamOst said:

What cable did you use to connect? i cant get my phone to pick up the obd2 data over a bluetooth adapter, it says connected but shows no data. Romraider on my laptop just says "unable to receive ecu init" please check cable etc.

before spending more money check your port settings completely. these can change over and over again and no fixed setting can be locked in on an emulator. failure to keep an eye on port settings caused me heaps of headaches

[AdamOst]

I did actually notice in romraider it only shows port 6, but the device is mapped to port 5. On my phone the two programs I have show the device as connected, but cant find the ecu.

I tried the device in my bmw and it worked fine with torque for android.

What cable did you use? just a normal odb2 one? and did you do anything different to the setup of rom raider?

[joshhorn16]

lol i actually dont even know what cable i have kinda permanently borrowed it from my boss who was trying to remap his vw passat ;D

[Kiwi_Fozze]

you have a vag-com cable. pick them up from ebay for like, 15 bux delivered