TazzI
Envyous Customs
- Joined
- May 24, 2011
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- Location
- Western Australia
- Website
- www.envyouscustoms.com
- Members Ride
- Holden VE SS Ute
No worries :beer chug:The cable I bought has OBD2 capability but not I suspect ALDL . I was asking if a software program might get it working with ALDL too ?
Unfortunately you cant rig an OBD2 cable (such as an ELM327) to work over ALDL. They are completely different protocols that use completely different chips to "interpret" the incoming signals from the car on different pins of the diagnostic port. As nice as it would be, software cannot help here either as it is the actual hardware that is the issue.
Stupid bluetooth units are temperamental, seems the smaller they are.. the more dodgy there connection is! I highly recommend everyone to use a legit Scantool.net cable as they are very high quality units, there bluetooth units actually work perfectly at high speeds too which is a big help. Torque app works brilliant, just recently used it on my android nexus 7, you can even upload custom themes/gauges made by others which look really mint!So what I'm reading is this will work with apps on android on a VX LS1? Looks like a good piece of kit - I stupidly bought one of those generic $20 things on ebay which of course didn't work (I know, I know) was hoping someone would release a good one.
Also big props to the OP, great writeup.