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2012-01-21
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works well on my volvo S40
the fact that I didn't like pyOBD is because it reads only a very few sensors and there are no graphs
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2012-01-21
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Carman only reads about 8 sensor. pyOBD reads several of them, depending on your car. On my smart, most of the sensor page is enabled and it reads all of them. I'm pretty sure pyOBD auto-detects what sensors it can get from your car, then shows them and updates them. If you're not seeing many (25+) active on your car, it's probably because your car doesn't support reading those in the same place the script is looking for them.
Volvo are great cars, but they're known for tweaking and customizing everything... including OBDII codes. smart does that too, but still accepts most of the older commands as well. The down-side for me is that lots of the "warning" codes show up as errors in pyOBD, and have no description, since they're manufacturer custom. I have an excel sheet somewhere with those though, and will add them (& upload them?) onceI find that again. It's on one of those thumbdrives... in that box over there... I think.
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2012-01-21
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2012-01-21
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I think this is one of those things where it's hardly fair to dislike something just because it is not something else.
pyOBD is what was adapted to the N900 in this case, (and more successfully than any previous BT OBD package). It is diagnostic-oriented, not dashboard/driving oriented & works well. If Carman had already been ported successfully to the N900, pyOBD would still be a great application because its objective is different.
Just to show that tastes can differ even as far as the packaging of a particular application, I think that Carman becomes less effective by its slant toward heavily stylized graphics - its information would be better conveyed with larger, simpler windowed digital readouts which would make not only for faster perception, but allow more outputs to be displayed simultaneously. At the size of the N900 screen, two pseudo-analog gauges eat up a lot of real estate costing reduced readability that could have been more effectively used with even four or six simplified digital readouts.
There is already a Carman thread, if you would like to attempt to resurrect interest in Carman. But pyOBD is dstinct & not inferior to Carman's objective - which is still unachieved on the N900, also.
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2012-01-21
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2012-01-23
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Looking at source code of other Open (that version of Carman was open) is always good idea.
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2012-01-23
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2012-01-23
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2012-01-23
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the fact that I didn't like pyOBD is because it reads only a very few sensors and there are no graphs/graphics
Perhaps if you look at an older version of carman you might find lots of sensor readings in there.
it's the last one for OS 2006
http://openbossa.indt.org/carman/ins...ldversion.html
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