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Old 09-18-2009, 06:55 AM   #31
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I get paid to write programs of large computer systems. I took a JAVA class in 1999 and have never had a reason to use that language. I wonder what I could do with a bit of hardware and my own software. There might even be some free down loadable source code for me to start with.
Wayne -

Let us know if you do this. My concern, born out of ignorance, would how to find out the format of the data that circulates over the OBDII bus. I don't know anything about the format, and I don't know if it is standard from one manufacturer to another.

I think that the signalling format has finally standardized. There used to be several busses - CAN bus, ISO bus, PWM bus, etc. I'm not sure what the standard is, but at least hardware interfacing will be simpler now.

Let us know!

Bill

[Edit - In looking up bus names, I ran across this site that ought to help. http://obddiagnostics.com/obdinfo/msg_struct.html ]
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