Any OBD2 Car Software for N900
 

Hello,

I received my OBD2 blue tooth adapter today, but don't have any software to test it with.

I thought I would have carman installed on my n900 by the time the BT would arrive but I can't get carman installed, tried may times.

I put a post on the carman thread, on December 9th, but no one answered, so I guess that project is dead?

Is there any other car scanning tool available for N900 that I could try?

Thank you in advance.

Re: Any OBD2 Car Software for N900
 

Seeing the topic title I was going to suggest Carman, what's the error you're getting? Perhaps people here could help you out....

Re: Any OBD2 Car Software for N900
 

Hi lardman,

I was following instructions on how to load carman on my n900 but when I get to a certain step i run into a problem, see below.

"When I get to step 6 (6. apt-get install carman) i get the following error, and can't figure out how to continue.

Carman: Depends: carman-ui (>+ 0.7~pre-alpha-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken pakage."

Re: Any OBD2 Car Software for N900
 

pyOBD works:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81129

Re: Any OBD2 Car Software for N900
 

Thank you rotoflex,

Installed this and works.

If anyone out there can help me install carman it would be greatly appreciate it, as it appears that it has a lot more features.

Re: Any OBD2 Car Software for N900
 

siafu, all I could learn was in the long post at
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=283
I have no other advice for installing Carman.

The only thing I can think of to try is to uninstall Carman then reinstall it in the manner described, & if that still fails, re-flash the N900 & reinstall Carman in the manner described.

Even though I am now able to get Carman to connect to my BT OBD dongle, Carman still doesn't function well. It demands a network connection, & at home I am able to connect to my home wi-fi, but after leaving the wi-fi range, it doesn't update RPM or ever show anything on the speedometer. Since my carrier changed the plan I use, I no longer can connect to data through the carrier, so I don't know if the speedometer will work even if a network connection is maintained.

Carman for the N900 still needs a lot of work to be minimally useful, if anyone wants to try to fix it up. The first thing would be to bypass Carman's demand for a network connection, and the second would be to make the OBD data for its screens like RPM & speed display with only a BT connection & without a network (data) connection.

Re: Any OBD2 Car Software for N900
 

Thanks Rotoflex,

I would uninstall carman, but I can't get to the point to even have it installed, keep getting errors about other libraries needed, and when I do those steps, then others, seems like never ending loop.

I'm not sure I want to flash my entire phone to get this working, I mean I have years of programs installed on my n900 and do not want to risk killing my phone by flashing it. seems like an extreme measure to get a program working, that perhaps might not be working correctly anyhow.


Any other suggestions welcomed and greatly appreciate it.

Re: Any OBD2 Car Software for N900
 

pyOBD is almost nothing compared to carman.