Vehicle Maintenence Plugin

**Sonicxtacy02** · 07-01-2009, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by carputer1

This is really looking outstanding sonic

Lets just hope it works as well for you guys as its been for me the last couple weeks

. The mileage counter has stayed accurate. And all the counters are doing their job. I'm actually surprised at how far its come lol

**spamminator** · 07-01-2009, 04:25 PM

I'm salivating over here.

As for including the gas cost in $/mile -- why not have two labels, one with, one without?

Edit:

OOH! One more thing. Not sure if you have this already, but would it be possible to have an indicator that fires whenever you get within a certain range on ANY of the maintenance items. It could be configurable, so say you have it turn on if you're 50 miles or less away from needing any kind of service (based on your list items). I'm thinking of this as something to stick on the menu skin to tell you to check something on the maintenace skin...

**Sonicxtacy02** · 07-01-2009, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by spamminator

I'm salivating over here.

As for including the gas cost in $/mile -- why not have two labels, one with, one without?

other than me having no other space for 2 more labels on MY personal skin.. there's nothing wrong with having 2 labels i guess

Edit:

OOH! One more thing. Not sure if you have this already, but would it be possible to have an indicator that fires whenever you get within a certain range on ANY of the maintenance items. It could be configurable, so say you have it turn on if you're 50 miles or less away from needing any kind of service (based on your list items). I'm thinking of this as something to stick on the menu skin to tell you to check something on the maintenace skin...

right now theres no indicator.. there's a popup style menu screen that will run once per day to inform you your maintenance item is due. The popup shows:
-if maintenance mileage is 80% or more of your mileage interval
-if 80% or more of the time interval is exceeded

I could easily add indicators that will do the same thing i spose. Is once a day too much? It COULD be user-settable i guess.. but at this point there's only 2 "settings" that are all set within road runner(Odometer reading and timer interval). Adding a bunch more settings would require the old fashion way of adding/editing the .ini file... and i'd like to stray away from that if possible.

**spamminator** · 07-01-2009, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

other than me having no other space for 2 more labels on MY personal skin.. there's nothing wrong with having 2 labels i guess

No one says that you have to use ALL the labels.

This would give people the choice.

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

right now theres no indicator.. there's a popup style menu screen that will run once per day to inform you your maintenance item is due. The popup shows:
-if maintenance mileage is 80% or more of your mileage interval
-if 80% or more of the time interval is exceeded

I could easily add indicators that will do the same thing i spose. Is once a day too much? It COULD be user-settable i guess.. but at this point there's only 2 "settings" that are all set within road runner(Odometer reading and timer interval). Adding a bunch more settings would require the old fashion way of adding/editing the .ini file... and i'd like to stray away from that if possible.

Maybe instead of making it user settable have an OK command that makes it go away for that day, and an IGNORE command that makes it go away until the next maintenance item is due, for when you don't want to be bothered daily about your windshield wipers.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 07-07-2009, 12:10 PM

welp... soon as i figure out why my slider (which is skinned into the "greyed" area next to the CL) is FUBAR and throw together a big *** text file i should have a beta ready.

the beta will have everything working EXCEPT the pop up screen. I'm considering not even having a pop-up screen because its implementation is messy at best. Plus if a user wanted to include a pop-up skin they could use a combination of RRExtended with a BYIND command basically. Instead there will be indicator code that can be placed on any screen that will throw the "yellow" warning image or the "red" warning image based on a maintenance item exceeding its range.

**carputer1** · 07-07-2009, 12:51 PM

can't wait to add this 1 , as i have almost finish rebuilding the truck total rebuild , and i'm doing a major service, and with my memory ,, i need this PI. lol....

**reece146** · 07-07-2009, 02:24 PM

This is pretty cool.

Maybe I missed it while reading the thread but how is the data stored? Just a flat CSV file on disk?

I'm wondering about snapping the maintenance log every once in a while and merging the contents into a spreadsheet on my desktop machine.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 07-07-2009, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by reece146

This is pretty cool.

Maybe I missed it while reading the thread but how is the data stored? Just a flat CSV file on disk?

I'm wondering about snapping the maintenance log every once in a while and merging the contents into a spreadsheet on my desktop machine.

data is saved via 2 .ini files. Here's the first dealing with the maintenance

Code:

[Main]
TotalDistance=50123.091162624
LastDate=7/7/2009
WaypointMiles= From 29.44149;-81.185204 to 29.444689;-81.183953 is 0.23 miles
FirstRun=1
[MileageInterval]
1LastDoneMiles=50001
2LastDoneMiles=50003
[TimeInterval]
1TimeCount=72
2TimeCount=72
[MaintenanceItems]
Maintenance1=Oil Change;5000;180;22.50;use 5w-30
Maintenance2=Air Filter;12000;365;17.50;Check Cabin Filter

and here's the second dealing with fuel

Code:

6/26/2009@50050@2.89@10
6/26/2009@50000@2.89@10
6/26/2009@49700@2.99@10
6/26/2009@49400@2.99@10
6/26/2009@49100@2.49@10
6/26/2009@48800@2.49@10
6/26/2009@48500@2.49@10
6/26/2009@48200@2.89@10

for maintenance i'm not saving every time anything was done... just the most recent event and how far you are away from it. I suppose i could add an export command that would create a single .csv for all events. You could add the export command to the maintenance reset or add fuel buttons if u wanted it done automatically.

**JohnWPB** · 07-07-2009, 03:03 PM

I think it would be nice to keep a log of all the maintenance done on the vehicle.

Now..... I know ANOTHER request! LOL. Being this keeps track of all scheduled maintenance, it would be nice to be able to key in unscheduled maintenance.

Just a few fields to fill in to keep track. Something like:

Repair Done, Mileage, Cost. You could key in "Replaced water pump, 52,000 miles, $220.07

This requires no calculation whatsoever, and is basically just OSKtoVar stuff, so would be ultra easy to add.

I also can not wait to give this one a try, it looks like you have outdone yourself sonic!

**Sonicxtacy02** · 07-07-2009, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

I think it would be nice to keep a log of all the maintenance done on the vehicle.

Now..... I know ANOTHER request! LOL. Being this keeps track of all scheduled maintenance, it would be nice to be able to key in unscheduled maintenance.

Just a few fields to fill in to keep track. Something like:

Repair Done, Mileage, Cost. You could key in "Replaced water pump, 52,000 miles, $220.07

This requires no calculation whatsoever, and is basically just OSKtoVar stuff, so would be ultra easy to add.

I also can not wait to give this one a try, it looks like you have outdone yourself sonic!

how would you like to handle the repair items. A separate CL and skin? Its easily doable i'd just like some feedback from a skinners perspective of how to handle it. Would you like the cost of the repair item to factor into the total cost per mile? It probably should.

Nows the time to get these ideas in fellas i'm on a 2 week vacation soon and i'd like to have SOMETHING out for you guys to play with before then