garygid
Well-known member
The OBDLink SX device was built to be an interface to almost any
OBD2 in most fairly recent cars. In cars with a "standard" CAN bus,
It can be initialized to just Read the Messages that it sees on the bus.
It is fairly inexpensive ($50 now), and connects to a PC via a USB connection.
There is a version with BlueTooth, but it is more expensive, and it is not clear
that the data rate is sufficiently high to Log a busy CAN bus.
It is sold by ScanTool, and also available via Amazon.
The LEAF has a "car" CAN bus, and two others on its OBD port.
The iMiEV, in comparison, has only the "car" CAN bus, but it is
a rather busy bus, with perhaps 1600 messages per second.
Some folks are using this device with the RealTerm program in
the PC to gather information from the "car" bus and write Log files.
I modified CAN-Do to read these RealTerm Log files, and I have now
programmed CAN-Do to accept data directly from the OBDLink device.
More later.
OBD2 in most fairly recent cars. In cars with a "standard" CAN bus,
It can be initialized to just Read the Messages that it sees on the bus.
It is fairly inexpensive ($50 now), and connects to a PC via a USB connection.
There is a version with BlueTooth, but it is more expensive, and it is not clear
that the data rate is sufficiently high to Log a busy CAN bus.
It is sold by ScanTool, and also available via Amazon.
The LEAF has a "car" CAN bus, and two others on its OBD port.
The iMiEV, in comparison, has only the "car" CAN bus, but it is
a rather busy bus, with perhaps 1600 messages per second.
Some folks are using this device with the RealTerm program in
the PC to gather information from the "car" bus and write Log files.
I modified CAN-Do to read these RealTerm Log files, and I have now
programmed CAN-Do to accept data directly from the OBDLink device.
More later.