Re: Noobie Starting New Project

2005-09-22 Thread megafrenzy
Well, I'm not too worried about the serial communications aspect, I've developed perhaps a dozen different RS-232, 422, 485, and even SPI, CANBUS interfaces in the past year for embedded systems. And also, the Subaru protocol is easier than OBDII, no need to change the baud to 5, its fixed at 4800

Re: Noobie Starting New Project

2005-09-22 Thread Rubinho
Having looked in these sorts of areas before and having a general interest in it, I'd like to make some suggestions. I wouldn't go an implement OBD-II yourself in Python, especially not in a serial port. There are in fact (at least) 4 different OBD-II protocols that I won't rattle off the names o

Noobie Starting New Project

2005-09-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've have an idea for a personal project. I want to access my car's OBD-II port via serial to query engine paramters and represent them on my PC monitor. The various methods to represent them would be any of the following: analog gauge (speedometer), digital readout, and X Y Plots/Charts (HP vs RPM