1. first, i have an obdkey - can i always leave it plugged in? i see the blue light flashing, even when the car is off.
2. i successfully connected to and retrieved some data points as i noted before, as well as made a video with rpm. but... right now my blackberry storm can see/connect to obdkey. so can the nokia 6120 classic i've been using. however, when i start logging in racechrono, it says it gets no data from the obd. i now just have primary rpm and secondary as throttle % and it still is saying it gets no data. i unpaired the device then re-paired it in bluetooth screens but it is still doing this. :(
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2. Did you try to unplug / replug it? If you were able to retrieve data earlier, this suggests to me that there is something wrong with the configuration. Or the OBDkey has hanged...
by trying another car i can see if it is my car or not. without another program or phone it will be hard to tell if the phone/program/obdkey is to blame. i don't have a good way of testing the health of obdkey.
actually this laptop i'm typing on has bluetooth, haven't tried it with anything ever - so do you have a windows program you could recommend to try and pull data? is there an xp version of racechrono?
When the connection is made you should see a > as prompt. Then you can write commands followed by enter. Try ATZ first which should return OK. Then try 0100, it should return numbers. NO DATA means the device has hanged.
atz
OBDKey 1.10k
OK
>0100
BUS INIT ....ERROR
>0100
BUS INIT ...OK
41 00 BE 3F A8 11
>1000
7F 10 11
>0100
41 00 BE 3F A8 11
>0110
41 10 02 C1
>0111
41 11 29
>0100
41 00 BE 3F A8 11
>0100
41 00 BE 3F A8 11
>
The OBDkey seems to work just fine. Can you send me (to tracks(at)racechrono.com) the NMEA file for a such session (\RaceChrono\Sessions\*-nmea.txt under your selected storage) where you get "No data from OBD", so I can do some checks? Is the blue led still blinking while you get that error?
In order to fix this, I may need to build you a special version with more data, But I can't do it before next week, since I'm off to Nokia event in Monaco. I hope you can wait a bit with this.
The problem is with running Racechrono v1.1 on N78 and N95. It connects to OBDKey fine, but RaceChrono is saying "no data from OBD"? I tried pausing, unplugging obdkey and resuming session, still no help. Can anyone give me some poiners of what I should try next?
Vehicle is a 04 Mazda RX-8.
Thanks,
Alan
It could be something is slightly changed in OBDKey and I need to fix the support. After I get back from France where I am now, I will probably make you a new build which will do debug logging, so I can see what is really wrong.
It's working fine for me now! I didn't know you can go left and right at the live timer screen! (doh dumb me).
Although racechrono shows no data from obd when you first connected to the OBDKEY. But switching to live timer and cycle through all the data by going right shows data is pulling from OBDKEY just fine.
2004 Mazda RX-8, Racechronon V1.1 and Nokia N78.
Alan
Let me know if you need any help on the OBDKey side of things.
Cheers
Sinclair
papdoc: Yes please send the NMEA data. I need to know if everybody are having same problem :)
question, any problems if i leave obdkey plugged in all the time and never take it out of my car?
Thanks for all.