ALDLdroid

[buddrow]

Interesting app. Any possibility for an iphone or windows phone version? ;)

[RobertISaar]

assuming you have the drivers loaded/installed for the cable, if you have the correct ADX, try it, you may have a solid connection and the test fails. if not, new drivers or new ECM.

[3400tZ]

Interesting app. Any possibility for an iphone or windows phone version? ;)

Nope, iOS is WAY too limited (No bluetooth, no USB, only WiFi meaning expensive adapter and slow data rate) and developing in Objective-C is not something I enjoy at all. Developing for windows, I do that all day at work so no go either. Android is such a powerful platform and so much fun to develop on and you end up with good apps, and the Android devices are cheap, so its a no brainer :)

assuming you have the drivers loaded/installed for the cable, if you have the correct ADX, try it, you may have a solid connection and the test fails. if not, new drivers or new ECM.

Yeah, drivers are fine (and I do see the com port in "Manage devices"). Correct XDF as well. Cannot connecting at all. I'm thinking bad wiring for the ALDL connector but I thought what I did was correct, can someone confirm please ? :D

[RobertISaar]

you say XDF, but what about ADX?

assuming you're playing with a 1227730:

i don't know the pinouts of the jimstim, but i'll assume it's correct.
A9 is correct for 8192 comms
E12 is correct for the diagnostic select.

for the cable test, i believe you're not supposed to have the vehicle-side connector plugged in, especially with a powered-up module, otherwise the test fails.

if the test still fails when unplugged, then the drivers need swapped around. certain versions seem to not like certain date codes of the FT232RL ICs, and to complicate that further, i've found a few situations where the laptop being used seems to effect driver selection as well.

[3400tZ]

I meant ADX, not XDF sorry :P

I did the cable test with it not hooked up to the car side ALDL and I got Cable functional (It's really not obvious that the cable shouldn't be connected ).

So that part is working... Something is definitely wrong with my wiring... For Pin A, it's grounded (Pin 9 of JimStim is just a ground).

That was some progress, thanks Robert :)

Not sure what to try next, I need to check some more wiring diagram I guess

[3400tZ]

Nevermind, as I reconnected the car side of the ALDL cable and tried to connect again, it worked!

All is well! Awesome, thanks guy!

Ready for the fun part! Comms code on the Android side :)

[3400tZ]

I'm too brain dead to do any coding tonight, I just added a 12V pin to the ALDL connector so the bluetooth module is feeded automatically.

Bench test with my 10" tablet :)
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Dashboard in edit mode, where you can customize the dashboard quite a bit.

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I'm hoping to have real values displayed from the ECM on the Android device screen sometime next week...

[3400tZ]

Here is an updated video. Sorry I realized after that I was holding my phone in the wrong orientation. Video is shit but should give you an idea of progress (see video on the first post that was just a week ago to compare :))
Now at around ~10600 lines of code, this is getting serious