Thread: OBDII Wifi Dongles?

Hrm. I hadn't found the kiwiwifi.

I think that if 150 bucks is the cheapest at the moment, I'll hang on a while for the price to drop a bit. Probably just implement a network plugin for obdsim for the fun of it while I wait :-)

Gary (-;

Am I right in my understanding at a high-level that using the wifi key is as simple as
1) {do wifi hoojery to make stuff able to talk to other stuff}
2) telnet to relevant port on the dongle [port 23, in the case of obdkey?]
3) Talk normal elm327

?

Gary (-;

Easy enough.

I don't suppose you have a posix-compatible system [ie, OSX, Linux, Solaris] sitting around and a few minutes to try something for me, by any chance?

Gary (-;

I just implemented a "Socket" generator for obdsim, which "may" work with wifi OBDII dongles.

To try it:

Code:

svn co svn://svn.icculus.org/obdgpslogger/trunk obdgpslogger
cd obdgpslogger
mkdir build; cd build # Separate build subdir
cmake ..
make
# Drops binaries in "bin" dir in top level checkout
PATH=`pwd`/../bin:$PATH ; export PATH
obdsim -g Socket -s host:port -o

The "-o" on obdsim causes it to launch obdgpslogger attached to the pty it creates. Needs cmake to build, but that's about it for base compilation.

Should work on any posix-ish machine that can address the dongle. All I've been able to do so far is set it up and use it with localhost:echo.

Thank-you! I greatly appreciate it. There's no hurry on this, just whenever you find yourself a few minutes to try it :-)

Gary (-;

OooooOOooo. That would be fantastic!

Do you have linux, cygwin, or mac boxes?

Thanks,
Gary (-;