I have just got my OBDlink in the mail and I tried the full verison of the app for the first time. I love it, I have been looking around the fourms and noticed the developer is really on top of poeples problems. Props man I really respect some one that backs up their product.
I am running a OBDlink bluetooth with a xoom tablet, I have tried this on a 99 suburban and a 97 accord and I havent had a problem.
Now with my question, I got all of this to fix cars. Right now my Suburban is having trouble and I want to monitor the O2 volts. I was wondering if there is a way to record this data and send it to my father for evoluation. I have downloaded the track recorder to see if it will display this information but I am lost. Is the a tutoral one how to record this data or another way? I saw you can record it to the web, but how?
scotte,
What you can do to record the O2 sensor voltage is go to settings, and scroll down to the "Data Logging & upload" from there choose what you want to log by selecting the PID to log. once you have what your looking for back out to the previous menu then choose the logging interval any where from .1 second to 5 seconds then choose Log when torque is started, and only when OBD is connected. I would also recommend rotate logfiles which put the data into separate files when torque connects to the ECU.
From there after you have collected the data you'll need to be in the realtime information then go to the menu and email logs and choose the file you want to send.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Road_Wx
Ok, I think I got all of that. I will try it when I get home today. The program saves log files to the xoom and it will show up in the Torque folder when I plug it in to the computer...Correct?
Do you know what file type they would be? Could any computer open and read the files or would they need a program?
Hi
The logfiles are saved as .csv files (you get a choice of a couple of file formats). CSV can be imported into Excel, OpenOffice, or viewed in a text editor without too much issue.
When you are logging, if it's the O2 voltage,(not equivalence ratio) then you will probably want to log as few PIDs as possible, and enable 'faster communication' in the main app OBD2 adapter settings. The main reason is that O2 volts changes quite fast and if you log more PIDs, then thats going to slow things down a bit as extra sensors take time to poll.
So, in the settings as the described by the other poster, add what PIDs you want, select a logging rate that is useful to you, go to the 'Realtime information' screen and hit the 'toggle logging' menu item. When you are done hit the toggle button again. Now you can use the 'send' menu item to send the CSV (or other type of file) to whoever you need to
(I would recommend doing it via GMail as some HTC handsets dont do attachments very well over the other 'email' application)
Hope this helps
Ian
I will give it a try tonight and let you guys know what happened.
On another topic, what dose PID stand for? and I also noticed a "toggle HUD" is this for setting up on my dash as a heads up display? Because that would be very useful insead of balancing the xoom on my steering colum.
Thanks to everyone so far
Hi!
PID is Parameter Identifier, and is used to identify individual sensors within a given Mode. A Mode (usually) defines groups of PIDs for a paticular purpose.
Hud mode is cool - you may wish to turn off screen rotation (in the settings) when using it (there will be some extra options for this in a later update to define which layout (portrait/landscape) to use
Well I was able to get the data recorded and on a spreadsheet but I can't for the life of me figure out how to make a chart to make more sense out of it any ideas? Something like what is on the home page of Torque.