Having read a lot about car scanners I invested in an Elm 327 based USB car dianostic interface. It arrived yesterday complete with a CD of software (much of which was rubbish!). Having looked at the software I decided to start my learning curve by using Easyobd11 and I decided to download the lastest version (V2.3.1) from their website which is available for free!
Having copied the software to the desktop I plugged in the interface into a USB port and then windows ran "add New Hardware" and I pointed it to the software folder. Once it had installed the drivers, I needed to go to device manager where listed under "ports" was "Com and LPT". I could then see that in my case the interface had been allocated Com3.
I then went to the car and plugged the interface into the OBD port (On Board Diagnostics!) and launched EasyOBD; it straight away found com3 without me needing to point it there! It also set the baud rate automatically which saved some experimentation
I then run the different test screen shots of which will follow. you will gather that my car has no fault codes
Photo 1 is the interfave plugged in under my dashboard. Photo 2 is the other end of the cable plugged into my laptop, and photo 3 shows the first page of Easy OBD with all green indicators (Good!).
Having copied the software to the desktop I plugged in the interface into a USB port and then windows ran "add New Hardware" and I pointed it to the software folder. Once it had installed the drivers, I needed to go to device manager where listed under "ports" was "Com and LPT". I could then see that in my case the interface had been allocated Com3.
I then went to the car and plugged the interface into the OBD port (On Board Diagnostics!) and launched EasyOBD; it straight away found com3 without me needing to point it there! It also set the baud rate automatically which saved some experimentation
I then run the different test screen shots of which will follow. you will gather that my car has no fault codes
Photo 1 is the interfave plugged in under my dashboard. Photo 2 is the other end of the cable plugged into my laptop, and photo 3 shows the first page of Easy OBD with all green indicators (Good!).
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