digitmoto.com or autoenginuity.com

**acura cl** · 06-28-2004, 02:20 PM

it's my b-day tomorrow so i'm going to buy myself an OBDii reader/scanner.

which one of these is better from everyone's experience?

i know the autoenginuity one is a bit more expensive but i don't mind paying if its a better product.

i want something that refreshes fast and shows me everything.

thanks all.

**acura cl** · 07-05-2004, 03:37 PM

90 views no reply?

**Marsupial** · 07-05-2004, 03:56 PM

I guess you're not the only one wondering about it

**arkadiyp** · 07-05-2004, 04:11 PM

Modis from Snapon is veeeeeeery good, and its only like 8 grand or so

**god_of_cpu** · 07-05-2004, 04:38 PM

All I can say is that I have a OBD II reader that uses the ELM chip like digimoto.com and it only gets 2.5 updates a second and that is split between all the parameters you are watching.

**jrtf83** · 07-20-2004, 12:37 PM

is the software from either compatible with the hardware from the other? how are they getting the dyno functionality.

**DjBac** · 07-21-2004, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by god_of_cpu

All I can say is that I have a OBD II reader that uses the ELM chip like digimoto.com and it only gets 2.5 updates a second and that is split between all the parameters you are watching.

I have the same interface and it won't work with all the available software!!!

Is there a better one that will work with ALL the available softwares??

**god_of_cpu** · 07-21-2004, 02:52 PM

There is no hardware interface that will work with all software. The problem is that the OBD II protocol is not directly compatible with a serial port so the hardware interface needs to convert from the OBD II protocol to something that will be readable on the serial port. All the hardware interfaces take a slightly different approach to this conversion so code needs to be written that is compatible with converted format, not the standard OBD II data format.

**Chairboy** · 07-21-2004, 02:53 PM

I really like my obddiagnostics.com BR-3, it was cheap ($90) and supports all the OBD-II interfaces so it will work on any car, unlike scantool which needs special hardware for each.

**[iG]** · 07-21-2004, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by god_of_cpu

All I can say is that I have a OBD II reader that uses the ELM chip like digimoto.com and it only gets 2.5 updates a second and that is split between all the parameters you are watching.

Thankfully most new cars are switching to CAN interface now, so that shouldnt be a problem. However.. there are no cheap scanners that support CAN as of yet, sigh...

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