Hijack
Member Since: 19 Jul 2006
Location: Hampshire
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Found this today
http://carman.garage.maemo.org/
If there is a CAN-bus socket somewhere on D3 (cannot check until Friday  ) then this could give loads of information - as described there. Possibly some enthusiasts or even tuning people could use this.....
Enjoy! 
HJ. D3 XS Manual - gone
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BarryG
Member Since: 30 Apr 2006
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Hijack .let us know how you get on on Friday..... I want one ... had something like this before in a
car.. handy for keeing an eye on the turbo after increasing the boost..
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| 29th Mar 2007 11:32 am |
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Hijack
Member Since: 19 Jul 2006
Location: Hampshire
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On Friday ( TOMORROW !!!!  ) I'm only collecting my new D3
Unfortunately do not have Nokia N700 nor the dongle to plug to the car CAN-bus... 
But I guess the info would be useful for someone who likes (and most importantly has got time) to play with these kind of things.... (hope you are one of them BarryG)   D3 XS Manual - gone
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| 29th Mar 2007 8:19 pm |
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10forcash
Member Since: 09 Jun 2005
Location: Ubique
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CAN bus is available via the OBD2 socket (bottom of dash trim in line with the brake pedal) the Prius owners site has been at this for a while but there is a question over the accuracy of the reported figures
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| 29th Mar 2007 8:24 pm |
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Gareth
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So TFC, thats where yuv'e been 
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| 29th Mar 2007 8:29 pm |
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10forcash
Member Since: 09 Jun 2005
Location: Ubique
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sort of similar involves OBD2 interfaces anyway 
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| 29th Mar 2007 9:26 pm |
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10forcash
Member Since: 09 Jun 2005
Location: Ubique
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yer, but we need a right - angled connector otherwise the  thing is going to become a new brake pedal cover....
i'm not too hot with source code but there's a few apps for OBD2 that are 'handy'
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| 30th Mar 2007 10:10 pm |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
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10forcash,
Do you have any links to the "handy apps"
Also what lead would you recomend..there seems to be so many ..do you need just a lead or are there any other produsts needed (apart from laptop and software)
Thanks G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 3rd Apr 2007 3:20 pm |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
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thanks G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 3rd Apr 2007 4:16 pm |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
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can any body say for definate that this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ELM327-USB-Pro-OBD-2...dZViewItem
will work on disco 3?
I have one and i cant get anything from it ..tryed varioius software ...i have also tryed it on a 2002 mini cooper with no joy either.
Dont know if its not compatable or the units faulty  G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 20th Apr 2007 5:58 pm |
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Gurvan
Member Since: 02 Jan 2005
Location: Germany... Not far from both the US and Hard German rock...
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I have tried these :
- http://www.qcontinuum.org/obdgauge/index.htm
- http://www.auterraweb.com/
Not tried this one :
- http://www.car-pal.net/index.htm
But I must say that I am not really convinced... It seems that the CAN Bus and the OBD2 system are quite separate and even if you can usually interrogate the OBD2 system the other one is closed to us ! But, if someone has a system that works, I am interested... Georgia On My Mind...
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| 20th Apr 2007 6:13 pm |
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stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
Location: Swine Town
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Wiggs, I have heard that some laptops do not provide quite enough juice (either Volts or Amps) at the USB port to power some of these devices correctly. If it's an option, can you try it on another laptop, or drag a desktop machine out just to trial it?
If that does turn out to be the issue, you can buy a cheap mini USB hub and a 12v to 5v cigarette lighter power converter to power it and buffer the power/data between your laptop and the device when you're on the move.
USB devices need 5V and up to a maximum of half an amp to work - some laptops fall short of either or both of these levels; resulting in things like external USB powerd hard-drives failing to spin up.
Also, I know that in spite of the supposed backwards compatibility for USB standards, I know of at least one device I've used that refused to work on a USB2 port, but would work if you changed it to be USB1.1 in the PC BIOS. That too might be worth a shot if it's an option available to you.
Let us know! Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
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| 20th Apr 2007 6:21 pm |
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10forcash
Member Since: 09 Jun 2005
Location: Ubique
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most devices will initially draw USB power, then change over to OBDII power, this can be checked by unplugging the USB lead once the OBDII connection has initialised
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| 20th Apr 2007 6:27 pm |
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