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Thanks jlu
Although there was a small typo in your post which I've highlighted above. I also discovered that it's possible to get all dependencies simultaneously:
Unfortunately having made and installed all of the Carman deb files it wouldn't work in the Xephyr window which just froze showing the Carman start up/logo screen . Not all is lost though; I made the ARMEL deb files and copied then to my N900 and they worked I haven't done much yet but I have changed the speedo gauge so that the metric and imperial versions are more or less matched (160mph / 260kmh) and added options to the 'configure units' to independently choose units for speed, temperature and pressure. But don't get too excited just yet, adding tick boxes to a menu is easy, but the way that 'units' are either metric or imperial is taking a bit of time to unravel.

I think Visual Studio would make things a little easier when it comes to navigating around Carman's program structure but Microsoft don't have a version for Kubuntu There are lots of things in KPackageKit and whilst I like the numerous word plays I'm on unfamiliar ground and any suggestions on what I could use instead VS gratefully received

A couple of other things to do are change the default carmand.conf file to specify internal gps for our N900s and turn of gps as part of the exit procedure. Then I'll need to find out who owns Carman so that I can send them what I've done to see if they want to make use of any of it .

Happy New Year everyone,
Sophie x

Hi,

Looking at using this with my 2002 subaru legacy blitzen 2.0l twin turbo.

Installed carman fine, opens no problem and connects to my obd2 bluetooth sender(http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.42825) without a hitch, but just shows blank values on the gauges etc.

I've tested it with my bosses VW Passat W8 and it seems to work fine(although a little slow), also got my friend who is mechanic to check my legacy's obd2 readings with his workshop hand held unit and everything worked fine.

Any ideas on whats going wrong?

You might want to try ESbox, which is an Eclipse add-on to support Maemo development.

Hmm, lets see, maybe the problem is that ur-a-bus - just kidding boardnz . Cevenn posted the same symptoms with his Subaru too :
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=192
S/He hasn't posted any more and seems to have given up... However, Carman produces very detailed log files - maybe looking through those might shed some light, they are located in your home directory (you can see a list of them by starting 'xterm' and then typing 'ls') and have names like 'carmand_logYYMMDD_HHMMSS.txt' (YYMMDD and HHMMSS are date and time when the log file was created).

Thanks again jlu , I'll take a look.
Sophie x

Thanks to all of you who contributed positively.
Read whole thread.
Install Carman.
Now I wanted to activate GPS.

Went into X-Terminal, typed sudo gainroot and typed the command as written above.

got following error

bin/sh: .carman/carman.conf: Permission denied

Can anobdoy please explain, how to activate GPS.

What am I doing wrong that I do not get the permission to edit the file.

thanks.

I am not trying to hijack the thread, but for the subaru guy, there are plenty of opensource development like romraider www.romraider.com that allow you to connect to the native subaru protocol SSM instead of pure obdii. this allow you to make faster readings over more engine values in the ecu.The thing is that is java, I have manage to make it run with ejre1.6 but the rxtxcom libraries are broken. anyway the good thing aboyut their developement is that is parametrized in xml files, so probably that could be used in carman.

Thanks I solved to connect it to internal GPS. See solution using vi.

Cheers.

Hi All.
I have installed the application successfully and edited the GPS file and even GPS is working fine.

Well I cannot connect to OBDII in Carman.
I bought this device.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bluetooth-ELM3...item3a61f77f37


It works fine with my wife's Andriod phone. No problems so ever.

With N900 I have added it into my device. It is there with the 'key' symbol on the right side (means trusted devices).

Following are displayed in the device detail under BT settings.
Device name: OBD II
Trusted device: Ticked as yes
Device type: Uncategorised
Supported profiles: SPP
BT address: 00:19:5D:24:B7:63

Now everytime I try to connect this device in CARMAN appliaction, it instally disconnected.
Everytime I press connect, it gives message of disconnected.

I tried to pair / unpaire many time, changed from trusted to non trusted and rebooted many time.
Everytime application launches, everything works fine except OBDII and it gives error Disconnected.

Can anybody put me in right direction?
Am I doing somthing wrong?
Do I need to change anything in N900 BT settings (internally)?

Can somebody please help.

Hi makkan00,

My Bluetooth OBD looks the same as yours although mine said it was version 1.3 and it works for me. However it can be a bit tricky to connect although it's usually OK if I turn my N900 off and back on again. Sorry it's not a very scientific solution, not to mention inconvenient.

Hope this helps
Sophie x

Hi Sophie
Thanks for reply. Honestly I have done more than 50 restart in last 10 hours and tried all possible combinations.

still no luck

Anybody else experiencing same problme, anybody...can you please suggest something?

Cheers.