Hm, it shouldn’t be doing that. I’ll have a look at the scanner to see what’s up

The telnet server is not for the faint hearted, it is really only for people familiar with the OBD2 protocol and know what things like ‘vi’ are. You need to be connected to WiFi to be able to connect to it.

Hi,
I am new here and in the way of monitoring a car and his engine with ‘Torque’, and I must say, after using the free version I’m addicted and downloaded the full version.
It even works better, faster BT connection en nice features.
But I had a problem, when scrolling in the ‘sensor’ page where you can attribute one to a dial, the screen freezes when an online sensor appears , shown with a green label.
It takes seconds when scrolling is back active and it is not very accurate.Is this an known issue?
For info, I am using a HTC HD2.
And a question where can I find pid’s for tree (3) different cars a Lancia ypsilon 1.3D(2008) an Mercedes 2.1D (2011) classe C, and a Fiat Ducato (van) 2.8D(2004).
Thanks in advance for all the info.

Hi Ian,
I have a little suggestion about plugin development.
Sometimes I don’t need to create my own interface for plugin.
I just want to add new display to “Realtime information” to see all sensors that I need plus my own calculations.
I know that you plan to add formula parser for Torque. But I think for hard formulas, like calculation with storing values it your formula will be unusable, am I wrong?
So, I suggest to add possibility for plugins to add new displays for “Realtime calculation”. It will be great, I think so.

Best Regards, Anton.

Quote from admin on June 29, 2011
I like that idea a lot.

I’ll need to do some playing around and see what fits best. You’ll likely need to register your ‘helper’ app as a service with Android, and when it can connect to Torque, I’ll see about modding the AIDL API to allow pushing of information back into the app for the dials/logging/alarms/etc to make use of.

Hi Ian,

Awesome. It will be amazing feature. When it will be ready, add some example how to use it, please 😉

Also it will be usable to add add/edit/restore information in profile. Like you did with MPG. You added MPG information to profile, but you unable to edit it.

Best regards, Anton.

Okay, I’ve added something to let you know when the app is not connected to the ECU which is probably a lot more useful

There’s 2 new methods going into this weekends update(I’m still testing though):

   
   /**
    * Add / Update a PID from your plugin to the main app, Your PID is keyed by name.
    */
   boolean setPIDData(String name, String shortName, String unit, float max, float min, float value);
   
   /**
    * Get connection state to ECU
    * @return true if connected to the ECU, false if the app has not yet started retrieving data from the ECU 
    */
    boolean isConnectedToECU();

setPIDData(…) is beta, may need some work, basically call the method with all the data(including the most recent value) and it should be made available to the rest of the app

isConnectedToECU() should be fairly self explanatory you can use this to tell if you need to ignore the values from the getValueForPID command (Some things like GPS which this can also retrieve are not related to the ECU) so the method should always return the last updated value

Hi

The trip distance is updated from the GPS, so if your GPS is off or has not got a lock with satellites, and you haven’t moved, then it won’t update the trip distance (or populate the field)

Hi Ian.

I have little suggestion. Can torque run as a service?
I also want to receive realtime information when torque is in background.
For now torque can’t be used with navigation programs.
I want to create plugin that will show some realtime information over main window. It give possibility to launch navigation programs and be able to see realtime information.

Can it be done?

Best regards, Anton.

Quote from admin on July 4, 2011
Current speed can be as much as 5% out, so as it is an error that can be compounded if obtaining distance from that method, GPS is a *lot* more accurate

Yeah, but sometimes GPS connection can’t be established at all. In my country bad weather one week in a row… So, sometimes GPS connection doesn’t established at all. Or, only 1 or 2 satellites found. And that’s why accuracy is really bad That’s why I suggest to add option. How trip must be determined, by GPS or by OBD Speed 😉

Best regards, Anton.

Quote from admin on July 4, 2011
Hm

I’ll see what I can do then for the next update.

Great. Thanks a lot

Best regards, Anton.

Hi
Unfortunately, since version 1.4.89 the g sensors in my plugin will no longer be updated.
Also in your graphing plugin, the g sensors always have the same value.