List of OBD2/OBDII software that works on Linux, native or with Wine

**arcturus38** · 03-10-2010, 07:26 AM

Originally Posted by boltun

There is nice open source python based application that could be easily used in linux.
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~donour/cars/pyobd/
I think it was originally written for Mac, so I had to change it to make it work on my Ubuntu laptop. I also changed the port to /dev/ttyUSB0 since I am using a USB device for communication (obddiag.net). The archive contains the script with my changes. I was able to read the DTC and display some sensor data for my Tercel.

hi everybody
I'm trying to make working pyobd on Ubuntu.
When I launch pyobd I get :

COM port /dev/ttyACM0

but my ELM is on /dev/ttyUSB0

I think that I have to change ttyACM0 by ttyUSB0 in a config file, but I don't know where is this file.

If somebody can help me it would be very nice !

NB
I'm newbie on Ubuntu and I have poor english.

Thank in advance for all kind of help.

**kalashnikov3dx** · 04-06-2010, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by chunkyks

Hahahah "claims". I've probably done 75% of its development under Linux :-)

Gary (-;

I'm running this under Gentoo 64bit, works great

**chunkyks** · 04-06-2010, 04:14 PM

Yay! Post google earth pictures!

Gary (-;

**johnvan** · 04-07-2010, 01:16 PM

I just bought an OBD scanner and have a few programs working in Wine, I'm using Ubuntu 9.10.

ScanTool.net for Windows v1.13 (I had the best luck with this, detected and reset a Check Engine light)

Easy OBDII (works well in wine but didn't detect the Check Engine light)

wOBD v1.4.0 (looks like its going to work but I haven't plugged it into the car yet)

Here's a link to a lifesaver post if you're trying to get a USB scanner to work in Ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1264807