chbla said:quick question ( I've got a Hyundai Ioniq Electric and apparently they need the same adapter).
Are there Bluetooth 4 (BLE) adapters that work as well? Low power would be nice...
Thank you very much,
Christoph
anyone?
chbla said:quick question ( I've got a Hyundai Ioniq Electric and apparently they need the same adapter).
Are there Bluetooth 4 (BLE) adapters that work as well? Low power would be nice...
Thank you very much,
Christoph
Sorry for not replying earlier, the answer is yes. But I don't know which until someone posts that they have one that is working.chbla said:..Are there Bluetooth 4 (BLE) adapters that work as well? Low power would be nice...
Another vote for the Panlong adapter. It's worked on everything I've tried it on!Kish said:
I have been using mine for 4 years now without problem. - Re: recommended obd2 adapter?langemand said:...The only dongle supported by the SoulEVSpy app is the Konnwei KW902.
KW902 is not necessarily better than the other dongles mentioned, it is just that the dongles are all different, and it is very complex to write an app that supports all the differences. And the KW902 is what I use for development and debugging. I have limited time for the SoulEVSpy project, so I have chosen to support one dongle...
No. Well mostly no.notfred said:.. It's all random guesswork when dealing with cheap Chinese junk..
---langemand said:...The only dongle supported by the SoulEVSpy app is the Konnwei KW902.
KW902 is not necessarily better than the other dongles mentioned, it is just that the dongles are all different, and it is very complex to write an app that supports all the differences. And the KW902 is what I use for development and debugging. I have limited time for the SoulEVSpy project, so I have chosen to support one dongle...
notfred said:It's going to be a guess. I have one the same shape with a different label that does work.
Best thing to do is just try it.
Thanks! I was thinking it should be good from the results. I've used it with Torque, Dash, and a few other apps without issue over the years on other vehicles. I've never attempted to manually dump the data. I'll get Soul Spy on my phone ready to go for when I pickup the car and hope for the best.notfred said:Information from the ELM327 Identifier says it should be good i.e. it supports the 1.x protocols and not the 2.x protocols.
The problem then comes of if it can pass enough data through without dropping bits of it, mine will work with Soul Spy and Torque but not if I try to connect to the bus and dump all traffic manually.
You should know that, most of cheap adapters (with price <$50) are NOT actually ELM327. They are Chinese clones, pretending to be ELM327, acting like ELM327.
What is so bad with “clones”?
Buying a cheap Chinese clone is like playing against casino – casino always wins.
Most of “clones” have different bugs.
In fact, there are several “real” versions of Chinese clones:
Old clones, marked as “v.1.4” or “v.1.5”, they were built very well, supported 90% of ELM327 command set and in most cases worked like original ELM327 without any bugs. It’s very hard to find such a good clone now.
Newer clones, marked “v.2.1”. This is a piece of shit. 100% of that clones has bugs (see list of known bugs below). If you see cheap ELM327 marked as “v.2.1” AVOID BUYING THIS CRAP!
Smart-ass Chinese fake-makers, that made v.2.1 clones realised, that consumers prefer buying ELM327 clones, marked as “v.1.4” or “v.1.5” and don’t want to buy “v.2.1”, that was full of bugs. So, what have they done? They just changed version string in “v.2.1” to “v.1.5”. And we have actually “v.2.1” clones, but marked as “v.1.5”. They are just the same piece of shit as v.2.1 with changed version string.
Thanks so much for the information, let me try one of the recommendations on the Car Scanner: Choosing OBDII adapter link you shared.There is no recent info here.
I recommend you try instead :- Car Scanner : Choosing OBDII adapter
Although the downside to the Car Scanner page is that they financially profit from recommending the most expensive version.
Normally I would avoid suggesting such a site because of potential bias due to the conflict of interest.
But there isn't anywhere else giving better info.
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