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How to control with mouse ? #69

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engineer00127 opened this issue May 26, 2018 · 4 comments
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How to control with mouse ? #69

engineer00127 opened this issue May 26, 2018 · 4 comments

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@engineer00127
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first at all, thanks for sharing this awesome project.
what i need to do if i don't have touchscreen and i want o control via mouse USB

@WebsterXC
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Sorry for the late reply. How are you invoking DigiDash? Is it on a Linux PC or a Raspberry Pi?

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engineer00127 commented May 31, 2018 via email

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WebsterXC commented May 31, 2018

We had a nightmare of problems with the ELM327 adapters when we did this project. If I recall correctly, all of the group members purchased ELM327 adapters and only 2 of them functioned in the way the manual said they would.

That being said, ensure that your engine is running after installing the ELM327 adapter in the OBD-II port. Some adapters go to sleep when the engine is off, despite there being valid data on the bus. However, if the engine is on, your Raspberry Pi successfully connects to the ELM adapter, and the gauges still don't display valid data, there's probably some communications error we didn't program for.

Unfortunately the project is hard-coded to use the ELM327 protocol, so the only way to use a different OBD-II bluetooth adapter is if it supports ELM327 as well. In hindsight, ELM327 was not robust enough for our project, but by the time we realized it, it was halfway through the semester and too late to switch.

EDIT: It took some deep searching, but here's the final video we ended up making for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZcLh4JdHmA

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