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Originally Posted by seanp
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Wow! :approve: What a wonderful gadget... I'd find most of that very useful indeed... Both as desktop and carputer...
What OBD software do you use? I'm about to acquire a CANScann and it would be great to be able to use that with the Axim! :D
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I use a cheap adaptor that only works with VagCheck (for PDA) and VagCom old versions (for PC). Still with VagCheck I have a lot of problems and I only able to run few tests. This is because mi car protocol uses 10400baud that does not meet any RS232 standard. Vagcheck does some sort of low level programming to get that speed, but with poor success at my PDA, it seems to be CPU speed dependant.
I am to buy any adaptor based on ELM chipset. It provides the right interface to communicate with the car and true RS232 to comunicate with computers. Adaptors based on ELM323 are only for OBD-II, but ELM327 is multiprocol. You probably need the last one. See:
http://scantool.net/
Search also at Ebay "elm323", "elm 323" or "elm327".
Using this sort of adaptors you will find a broad range of software to use with. Most of them are listed inside Ebay auctions.