OBDII Adapter Software

Modern cars can be monitored using a dongle (OBDii Adapter). The problem is to know what the different data is meaning.

Introduction

Toe be able to talk to your car you need a OBDii Adapter and a laptop. The focus here is solutions for OSX and iOS platforms.

The basic steps to connect to your car are:

1. Buy an OBDii dongle and hook it up your car.
2. Connect your laptop to the WiFi Network created bu the dongle.
3. Open a telnet session from your laptop to the dongle. On OSX open a Terminal window and type

   $ telnet 192.168.0.10 35000

   It may take some time before a connection is established, but the response is something like:

   Trying 192.168.0.10...

Connected to 192.168.0.10

Escape character is '^]'