PalmPilot ODB scanner

[Richard J Lebens]

This months Excellence magazine had an add with a picture of a Palm
based scanner.  It showed the PDA but no cabling or adapters.  I think
it was OttO-tool through baum(?) tools.  I think it was only OBD-II

--- Ti Kan <ti at amb.org> wrote:
> Joel Lenorovitz writes:
> > Does anyone have any experience with software that lets you use
> your PalmPilot as an
> > ODB (ODB-II) scanner?  I have come across a few websites that
> describe something
> > like this, but the information they have on specific applications
> is not very
> > helpful.  Anyone know where I can find something like this that
> will work with my
> > '95 90Q?  Thanks,
> 
> I think you mean OBD (On Board Diagnostics).  Anyway I have not come
> across
> any for the Palm Pilot and certainly not one that would access all
> the
> proprietary features of VW and Audi cars.  For our cars, the only
> game in
> town are:
> 	VAG-COM	http://www.ross-tech.com
> 	Baum VDS-Pro http://www.baumtools.com
> 
> Both of these run on Windows-9x based PCs and laptops, not Palms OS
> nor Windows CE.  Of course there is the "real" factory VAG 1551/1552
> and
> the fancy VAS-* scanners for big bucks.
> 
> Anyway, your '95 car should have OBD, not OBD-II.  But it doesn't
> matter,
> all of the above works with your car.
> 
> -Ti
> 01 S4 2.7 biturbo quattro
> 84 5000S 2.1 turbo
> 80 4000 2.0
> -- 
>     ///  Ti Kan                Vorsprung durch Technik
>    ///   AMB Research Laboratories, Sunnyvale, CA. USA
>   ///    ti at amb.org
>  //////  http://www.amb.org/ti/
> ///
> 


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