Thread: OBDroid, Android based bluetooth OBD2 scan tool

Man, I'm severely interested on this too.
I have a Moto Droid with 2.0.1 and the Bluetooth ODB-II from dealextreme (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.16921).
My bluetooth dongle uses the microsoft generic drivers.
Any way that I can help, I have a good history with programming, not so great with linux but I can sacrifice my device for this anytime!

Oh, and I can say for sure that it should work, it is an ELM 327 chip in there ( I know that cause I actually looked, lol).
It's been working fine with the Windows software like ScanXL with a lot of PID's so who knows, it may work with yours.

Originally Posted by avluis

Man, I'm severely interested on this too.
I have a Moto Droid with 2.0.1 and the Bluetooth ODB-II from dealextreme (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.16921).
My bluetooth dongle uses the microsoft generic drivers.
Any way that I can help, I have a good history with programming, not so great with linux but I can sacrifice my device for this anytime!

Oh, and I can say for sure that it should work, it is an ELM 327 chip in there ( I know that cause I actually looked, lol).
It's been working fine with the Windows software like ScanXL with a lot of PID's so who knows, it may work with yours.

Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the program to try out

Originally Posted by malcom2073

Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the program to try out

pm'ed, thanks!

Also, that's pretty clever of you to link RevFE as your avatar, good use of space!

id be interested in trying this too, i have a g1 with 1.6, but its rooted and as a previous poster said i would be more than willing to through 2.0 on there, let me know

Originally Posted by g1pete

Excellent, I'd be interested in trying your app with the ODBLink (with BT option)
My G1 is on 1.6 but I always can grab an Eclair Rom from the XDA site and load it on my phone (it's rooted).

Also, there is a backport of the Bluetooth API from 2.0 available to work with the SDK 1.6. I just tried the Google BluetoothChat sample with it and can actually connect to the ODBLink.
This would give you a broader pool for testing.
here is the link: http://code.google.com/p/backport-android-bluetooth/

That's awesome, I'll look into that I don't speak legalese, so I'll have to find someone to explain if I can use apache licensed code in a closed source project... but I doubt it so I probably can't use it.

I'd love to give this a whirl... got a Droid and this BT OBD dongle... just curious, does the app display trouble codes at this point?

Originally Posted by TheSovereign

I'd love to give this a whirl... got a Droid and this BT OBD dongle... just curious, does the app display trouble codes at this point?

Not yet, no it does not. I am working on a new version that should work with a wider variety of scan tools, I hope to have it ready by the end of the week. If you PM me your email address I'll shoot the .apk file of to you when it's finished.

Done, thank you!

I too have a G1 1.6 as well and as soon as I get another car (hopefully next week) I would like to have a shot at this because a Scanguage II is $160 and if more can be had with this app something like what's on Garmin Nuvi GPS units with BT that was shown at CES today



EchoRoute on Garmin's Corp Blog

Thanks for the work, I am sure the Android community will love your hard work.

BTW have you seen the Performance Meter for the Android? -

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