Android OBDII interface

[Chadwick]

I have been waiting for this kinda thing for a while now. I always wanted a ScangaugeII or Dashhawk for monitoring engine stuff, primarily fuel millage, but also all the other stuff you can get from an OBDII interface.

http://scangauge.com/


http://www.dashhawk.com/


Phones being what they are nowadays, it seemed silly to buy a separate device when with some kind of bluetooth OBDII interface you could have your phone do all the work...with the right APP.

So, in the last few months people have started to use this APP for android. It's called Torque, and it does anything and everything I wanted, all customizable, including display, logging, etc. There is a free version of course, but i hate free version apps. Under $5 = no adds.

http://torque-bhp.com/

Downloadable from the android store.

What you need of course is an android phone with bluetooth and decent processing capacity. Then you need a bluetooth OBDII interface module.

There are a few of these:

http://torque-bhp.com/software/torqu...obd2-adapters/

The most expensive and "trusted" one is Kiwi, which i think comes with its own software. Dont know much more than that other than this is the well supported one that seems to have the best track record. But at $100 average it better be...

The other options on that page are various low buck Chinese made deals, mostly available on ebay. Going rate from a good seller seems to be $25-35. This is the one i got (ELM327) bluetooth OBD2 adapeter.

http://diydiagnostics.com/Wireless_Bluetooth_specs.htm

I have had no issues so far with it. It works great. Just no documentation so i had to search internet forums to find the PIN. The pin for the current version is 6789.


Again i primarily use it for the instant and average MPG but its also handy for any other parameter you want to monitor and log from an OBDII interface. It didn't make sense at even $70 much less $170-300 for scangaugeII or dashhawk. But for under $50 total it was worth it.

If you are an iphone (Lo)user, dont ask, I have no idea if this is available for iphone.....