Thread: Vehicle Maintenence Plugin

Are you saving off the information about each refuel, so that one can look at a history of their fill ups and see miles/gallon, $/gallon, etc. over time?

Also, the mpg and cost per mile should probably say over what interval (last 10 fill-ups, 180 days, whatever).

Edit:
Also current odometer might be handy, to see if it's drifting from the real thing.

Originally Posted by spamminator

Are you saving off the information about each refuel, so that one can look at a history of their fill ups and see miles/gallon, $/gallon, etc. over time?

Also, the mpg and cost per mile should probably say over what interval (last 10 fill-ups, 180 days, whatever).

Edit:
Also current odometer might be handy, to see if it's drifting from the real thing.

i'm not currently but i can add a command that will save to log i spose.

The current MPG is calculated at each fill up. Its not a real-time calculated value at this point. Does it need to be? How would i go about calculating a live MPG

The current odometer is available as a label its just not displayed on that sample skin.

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

i'm not currently but i can add a command that will save to log i spose.

The current MPG is calculated at each fill up. Its not a real-time calculated value at this point. Does it need to be? How would i go about calculating a live MPG

The current odometer is available as a label its just not displayed on that sample skin.

I'm not sure you could calculate the instantaneous MPG without a OBD connection, and the OBD plugin can already do that.

Instead of just labels for the last fillup, I think it would be better to have a list with the values for the last X fill ups.

Date Fuel Amt. Price. Odometer
Date Fuel Amt. Price. Odometer
Date Fuel Amt. Price. Odometer
.
.
.

And from that you could calculate the MPG and $ per mile over whatever range you wanted -- lifetime, last 10 fill ups, last fill up, etc.

Ideally I'd love it to store an unlimited number of entries, but you could have a variable in the .ini which limits the size of the log file.

Hi

I am very much looking forward to this! I was just wondering if you could implement the option of entering fuel in litres but have the fuel consumption still given in mpg - I think I am right in saying that there are about 4.5litres to a gallon. In the Uk fuel is sold by the litre but we still use mpg for consumption - Yes we do do some strange things

Thanks

Peter

Originally Posted by spamminator

I'm not sure you could calculate the instantaneous MPG without a OBD connection, and the OBD plugin can already do that.

Instead of just labels for the last fillup, I think it would be better to have a list with the values for the last X fill ups.

Date Fuel Amt. Price. Odometer
Date Fuel Amt. Price. Odometer
Date Fuel Amt. Price. Odometer
.
.
.

And from that you could calculate the MPG and $ per mile over whatever range you wanted -- lifetime, last 10 fill ups, last fill up, etc.

Ideally I'd love it to store an unlimited number of entries, but you could have a variable in the .ini which limits the size of the log file.

i like that idea... i'll go ahead and implement it that way.. that way the MPG is an average and doesnt need to be immediately calculated.

Originally Posted by frangolfgt

Hi

I am very much looking forward to this! I was just wondering if you could implement the option of entering fuel in litres but have the fuel consumption still given in mpg - I think I am right in saying that there are about 4.5litres to a gallon. In the Uk fuel is sold by the litre but we still use mpg for consumption - Yes we do do some strange things

Thanks

Peter

the initial version will only have gallons/miles.. just to insure it works. Once all the bugs are kicked it'll be possible to switch to liter/km, and liter/miles

Something along the lines of this?



Top MPG is so low because its based on the current distance traveled... which in most cases will be less than a full tank of gas. Should i throw that figure out of the average MPG calculation?

In any event.. the list goes backwards from your most recent refuel and will keep 20 entries.. i doubt there's a need for any more than that right?

I took a sec and added in Johns request to have the total distance clickable and edit it to keep it in sync with the odometer.

sub'd with much interest. I can retire my hacked together personal solution.

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

Something along the lines of this?



Top MPG is so low because its based on the current distance traveled... which in most cases will be less than a full tank of gas. Should i throw that figure out of the average MPG calculation?

Perfect!

Yeah, I think you can throw away the top most MPG calculation, since there's no way to know exactly how much fuel you're using until your next fill up.

Originally Posted by spamminator

Perfect!

Yeah, I think you can throw away the top most MPG calculation, since there's no way to know exactly how much fuel you're using until your next fill up.

ok.. i'll show it in list but it will not be calculated in the average.