Thread: GaugeDisplay - Got an ELM? Let's talk.

I just seen the new pictures.. wow !

can u add calculations for l/100km and/or mpg
like OBDMPG for rr

Looks better and better everytime I visit this thread. I can´t get my ELM device to connect with your software. What baudrate is it running? If other than 38400 could you possibly add a config parameter for it so that I can get my device connected?

THX!

Originally Posted by pat_vrs

can u add calculations for l/100km and/or mpg
like OBDMPG for rr

Yep, turns out the function parser in the current version is broken, but in the next one you will be able to set a gauge to calculate something (like l/100km or mpg).

Originally Posted by michbound

Are you thinking of adding polygon shapes so you could do irregular shaped gauges ?

I don't think that would be particularly difficult, I am eventually adding support for people to load their own images for gauges so perhaps I'll hold off on irregular shapes until that's in.

Originally Posted by tom_rosenback

Looks better and better everytime I visit this thread. I can´t get my ELM device to connect with your software. What baudrate is it running? If other than 38400 could you possibly add a config parameter for it so that I can get my device connected?

That's gonna require a change in my library, so that may be a ways off, most ELM devices can connect at 9600 which is why I started there. I'll add it to the request list though


I should have a new version up either later tonight or tomorrow with the fixed function parser and a MPG example included.

New version in the top post. I didn't get the faster baud rate working yet, but I'd be curious to see what kind of response times people are getting from this.

Just found this thread. Looks interesting. I am about to order an OBDII interface so will give it a go later.

In relation to Baud rates, maybe you could just add a new XML tag so this;
<gauges count="5" xpos="0" ypos="0" width="800" height="600" bgcolor="200:200:200" comport="COM6">

looks something like:
<gauges count="5" xpos="0" ypos="0" width="800" height="600" bgcolor="200:200:200" comport="COM6" baud="38400">

I would not have thought that changing the baud rate was too hard, copy it to a global variable and use this variable when you open the comm port. What language are you programming this in?

It wouldn't be too difficult. The main program is written in c# and the odb library in c++. In the next release or two I will be adding that.

Originally Posted by malcom2073

It wouldn't be too difficult. The main program is written in c# and the odb library in c++. In the next release or two I will be adding that.

Cool, then I will be able to help you then. I know C and some of the newer flavours quite well, it is all the mucking about with the Windows API that I struggle with. I have Visual Studio 2003 here at home. I Gave up on Basic 25 years ago so never got into VB.

Originally Posted by rodweb

Cool, then I will be able to help you then. I know C and some of the newer flavours quite well, it is all the mucking about with the Windows API that I struggle with. I have Visual Studio 2003 here at home. I Gave up on Basic 25 years ago so never got into VB.

I appreciate the offer but the program is not open source.

Good effort! One thing, can you make the com port this is suppose to connect re-configurable in the xml file?