OBDII, Anyone?

2005-08-11 Thread Christopher Snell
Hi All,

Has anybody done any work to port Freediag
(http://freediag.sourceforge.net/) to OpenBSD or to write similar
ODBII software for our favorite OS?  Googling did not yield anything
useful.

For those that don't already know, ODBII is the nifty hardware
interface present in many automobiles manufactured since the
mid-1990s, which allows you to read diagnostic and performance metrics
from your car's computer systems.  Interface dongles can be home built
(http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/obdii/) or purchased cheaply.

Freediag reads its data over the serial port but is very
Linux-specific at the moment.  :(

Chris



Re: OBDII, Anyone?

2005-08-11 Thread Stefan Olsson

From: Christopher Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Has anybody done any work to port Freediag
(http://freediag.sourceforge.net/) to OpenBSD or to write similar
ODBII software for our favorite OS?  Googling did not yield anything
useful.


-Just being curious, if some developer actually ported this to OpenBSD, how 
would the real-time scheduling be sorted out?

From Freediag page:
The Scantool should be run as SuperUser as the process has to set real-time 
scheduling in order to get accurate timing control under Linux.