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Can you dm me an export of your vehicle's predictive-maintenance data? I'll take a look as to why you're seeing different info in the Porsche app vs Electric Sidecar.

Do they go away if you manually refresh the vehicle?

ELMCheck is officially in the App Store now! If you'd like to use it to check the general compatibility of your OBD scanning hardware by performing a battery of tests against it, you can get the app at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/elmcheck/id6479630442. I'm giving promo codes out to anyone...

Update: all sensor data now streamable:

Mac app demo showing the live view (it's night time here) with the correct timestamp after the app performed a handshake with the camera:

I've been pretty frustrated with my Porsche Cam install so far. After recently witnessing an accident directly in front of me on the highway only to realize that the dashcam SD storage was full and only keeping random intervals of footage (notably *not* the crash), I decided to take a look into...

Sadly yeah Electric Sidecar relies on having an active Porsche Connect subscription for all over the air data to your vehicle. That being said, if you are open to using an OBD scanner with your car then you can still get trip telemetry and latest SoC data by using a scanner. Assuming you’re the...

TBD, once I've got the MFi code hooked up for the MX+ I'll run some tests on it to see what the differences are.

It might be a little while before I add MX+ support anyway because it's not using the standard Bluetooth framework, and the CX is good too!

btw I reached out to OBDLink and they've added Electric Sidecar to the list of apps that are allowed to connect to the OBDLink MX+, which is pretty rad! I need to do some extra work to support MFi-certified hardware, so that will come in a follow-up release!

v1.4.0-93 is now out to the general testing pool and it's a big one! This is the first beta release of Electric Sidecar's new OBD scanner feature. The new OBD scanner is designed for two main use cases: 1. Understanding the state of any vehicle you wish to connect to Electric Sidecar. I've...

I'll be adding a suite of performance tests to ELMCheck next, and one more power user feature, and then I"ll be shipping this app to the App Store :)

Full initial reports of the five BTLE scanners I have on my desk. Still some work to do to make the reports have easier to grok insights, but getting close to being a shippable app. - vLinker MC+: 118/132 tests passed - VEEPEAK OBDCheck BLE: 96/132 tests passed - Generic blue OBD scanner...

So far from my battle hardening I'm finding the OBDLink CX to be the most robust OBD solution of any hardware I've tried. Will share detailed reports once I've finished implementing the rest of the ELMCheck test suite.

Yep! And if for any reason it doesn't let me know. I'm aggressively testing all of my scanners right now and CX is in heavy rotation.

I just confirmed this is the case yes! After about two minutes of the car being locked, I was able to get a connection to the scanner to cause the alarm to go off. This is actually a really great feature of the car, which means that it will be hard for somebody to interface with the car if you...

> Could it be that Electric side car on my phone is trying to connect to the OBD interface as I approach and it’s managing to connect before comfort access unlocks the car, and therefore triggering the alarm? When your iPhone rediscovers a BTLE accessory it had previously connected to, then...

Oh! That's fascinating, and entirely possible! Do you leave the OBD interface plugged in and turned on at all times? It's generally not recommended to leave the generic scanners plugged in and turned on all the time for a variety of reasons (one being that it can drain your 12V battery, the...

Ah yeah the ATCRA7XX bug has been fixed — I think that was affecting the CX too even. The proliferation of clones with the ELM327 interface is pretty fascinating, and part of the reason I'm making ELMCheck. The CX should work fine too though!

Do you remember the error you were encountering? There were definitely connectivity issues with the OBD beta up until the most recent release (92). Has the CX been working ok?