Hi everyone,

First a quick self introduction - I've been involved with the forum.ecuproject.com for Saab (and other) cars, doing my bit writing some software as and when I learn how to do the next thing. Inevitably this involves a lot of googling and so I find out about other projects such as Carman...

Before I go on though, a couple of answers to some other's questions: Carman can show long and short term fuel trim as an average percentage, but ideally you would want to see the whole adaption table. My long term fuel trim for my car was just 0.2% but a few locations in the table were as much as 3% however, Carman can't show this. Carman can show boost pressure when metric units are selected - the kPa gauge next to the temperature gauge is boost pressure. 100 kPa is 1 bar although for some reason the gauge shows about 100 kPa when the engine is off so I think the maximum 240 kPa is actually 1.4 bar not 2.4 (which is OK for me because my maximum boost is 1.15 bar and I see around 210 kPa on the gauge but I know people have more boost than me so having a maximum of just 1.4 bar might be a bit low for some)

So, I have acquired an N900 and a Bluetooth thing and have it working but I'm keen to see if I can make it work more like the Trionic Suites and CarPC software which can record what the engine is doing and FLASH new BIN files to the ECU, but need a laptop or PC. I already know how to do that now, just not with a mobile phone - if you're interested take a look at my Just4Trionic project using the mbed system (to which I'm thinking about adding Bluetooth...)

Now here's my question: Could someone be kind enough to point me in the right direction for instructions on how to 'check out' the Carman source software at the maemo.org garage please? I've got a nasty feeling I need to have Linux software on my laptop, but haven't worked out how to install it on Windows - can I Visual Studio instead or even my N900 on it's own with its Maemo Linux?

I apologise if I haven't used the correct terminology, hopefully I have described things clearly enough though.

Seasons greetings and thanks in advance,
Sophie x