Hello!
Could you please explain how to use the equipment and what is required for a mechanic to diagnose my car from a distance and identify problems?
And how safe is it?
Hi! You will need a car scanner hardware, which you will connect to the car. You will also need a laptop with a good Internet connection, which will be used to transfer data to the computer of the specialist who will perform the diagnostics. Special hardware controllers generate certain codes in case of breakdowns and help identify the problem. All this data will be transmitted to the specialist using a special application, and he will be able to diagnose the car. This is very convenient, especially for people who are constantly on the road, it saves time and money.
What do you need for remote obd access Here the whole process is very well described step by step and explains what exactly you need for this.
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My Trinity has VoIP available but nonetheless - as far as VoIP is concerned - I would like to just use it as a USB phone connected to my PC. It connects through USB so is it possible to use it as a VoIP handset?
I have already searched a bit on this topic, and have found that just using the ActiveSync connection won't do the trick since one cannot access the mic/speaker through USB, only data transfer as files or sync...
But I know of other client/server programs that do some telnet stuff over the connection, in order to transfer keystrokes, mouse and screen data. Would something similar be possible for what I have in mind? I just hope that the overhead or lag would not be too much. And I know for sure that other people would also like this feature
Anyone willing to give it a go, or know of an alternative?
Is it possible to utilize my existing home-based Voip provider (e.g., Vonage) via my Smart(dumb?)phone if I have a notebook connected to my Voip phone adapter and running a VNC server?
I have successfully used a VNC between my phone and computer and wonder what I would need to take it a step further and use this connection for phone services through my phone adapter and avoid an additional Voip account.
Would the notebook need to be connected via a standard telephone cord or is it possible to use the existing Ethernet connection through my router?
Note that I've yet to try using the notebook's telephony features in making a "Vonage" call with a connection similar to my handsets.
I would like to believe that it is possible to instruct my notebook (via a VNC) to make a call but would I then be able to listen to and push voice over this connection?
Thank you for any thoughts regarding the matter.
great idea, might work. but im not sure if vnc has microphone support. if not you may need to relay the microphone, but might cause undesirable delay :[.
ekw said:
great idea, might work. but im not sure if vnc has microphone support. if not you may need to relay the microphone, but might cause undesirable delay :[.
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Thanks for chiming in.
Lag time and the tiny screen are the reasons why I rarely use a VNC now so, I suspect and as you have considered, delay time may kill the whole deal regarding this type of setup.
Have you used Skype with your phone and is there something of a delay with this?
How about the sound quality?
I just thought that while I was traveling away from home I could connect wirelessly (e.g., Vonage's V-Phone but without the extra hardware and a notebook) and utilize my account via my Smartphone.
Maybe they'll come up with a mini/microSD card and software to work with WM/other devices?
USE G1 As External GPS On Laptop - Can This Be Done
The reason why I am asking this is cause I am building A Car PC.
I can use the G1 as A Wifi Connection Surf The Net With Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc....
But It would be great to use with MS Streets Of Garmin PC, etc... with the Dreams GPS
If this has not been done yet it would be great if some one could (Must Likely a Developer) make a program that can do this
Thanks In Advance
And I Also Already Did This SEARCH FOR USE G1 As External GPS
im pretty sure this has been covered b4 but im not 100% and the answer then was no( i personaly dont know but i remember seeing a bunch of people saying no) well hopefully thats helps a lil..
maybe the dream uses a comport to communicate with the gps reciever, if that is true you may be able to redirect this to a bluetooth-comport
It may be possible, but I really don't think it would be worth the tremendous effort, considering GPS dongles can be had for less than 20 a pop.
I think it would be awesome to do since it's one less piece of equipment to carry around.
All it would take would be:
A program to take reading of the GPS info.
Convert it to the proper format (emulating a GPS dongle which isn't hard.)
There already are various programs that can send data to the PC. Use one of their code.
Have a program on the PC to translate it all into a virtual com port.
But then... I'm not a programmer. And the way I discribe it would be more like a hack than a proper program. But I don't believe the android API's allow you to control the way that the USB or the Bluetooth is identified by a computer.
It can be done but I don't think android naively supports the serial port profile over bluetooth which you would need to accomplish this. Once you figure that out all you need is to get your phone to spit out NMEA location data over that connection and your laptop will see it as a Generic GPS device.
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It may be possible, but I really don't think it would be worth the tremendous effort, considering GPS dongles can be had for less than 20 a pop.
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Indeed, and if you're building a CarPC, a small GPS dongel - that can be placed in good line-of-sight - is the better option anyway.
-bZj
I would prefer connection over internet or WiFi as it won't be easy to provide sky view to an laptop or pc so any user may place his laptop or pc at an place, get near an window for sky view to his android phone, then the data would be transferred to pc via internet or WiFi connection instead of connecting usb chord each time...
There are already apps like printer share which uses the phones internet connection for printing, also the upcomming app teradesk that lets an user to get files from his pc even when we are far from our pc,.....
Both apps use a server and client method for data transfer... so hope this would be possible...
Hi guys,
We are building a fuel efficient car and trying to create a monitoring system for it, so we can monitor certain things from a laptop in the pit. The speed we will be driving is around 25km/h.
We would like to receive some data from an arduino board using the usb interface, and send this, with the current gps coordinates in realtime, over 3g/3.5g/gprs to the beforementioned laptop.
Also, we would like to receive another datastream (also realtime) and show this on the screen. This datastream would contain the current speed (measured by the arduino) and the current target speed (calculated by the laptop)
We are very curious for the possibilties and we hope you could help us.
Greetings,
Niek
I did this using an oler version on Garmin software on an xp laptop. I had to create a virtual port on the pc to connect. There are a bunch if map files on the net. Or you can make and/or convert your own maps. I used Garmin maps. If you get really interested I've seen people do a google earth overlay. You can use it for tracking and what not.
I am on my on my phone right now, so I can't type all the details. But I can get to my laptop later and get you the name of the shareware I used.
We don't want to see on a map what our position is but only the GPS coordinates.
There are also some weight restrictions to make the vehicle as efficient as possible.
spare the n00b, but isn't that board of yours a phone? if it is, why not connect via adb and pull the co-ordinates when needed?
Hey guys,
I am currently developing my school project application, but I am kinda stuck.
I would like to connect my phone to my car through USB cable and recieve car's data, like RPMs and so.
I have the OBD cable and the reduction as well.
I have found this lib: https://github.com/pires/obd-java-api
I would like to use it, but it is intended to be used with BT.
Is there anybody who could help me achieve what I want to do? I want to know how to do pooling with USB so I can get car's data in realtime.
I can pay some little money if you wish too.
Thanks.