Albert850i
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Works very well on iOS (iPhone and iPad), thanks.
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Albert850i, thank you for this input. Which OBDII scanner are you using with hobDrive?Albert850i said:
Albert850i
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Just a simple and very cheap ELM327 OBD2 scanner.
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hi
could someone please explain me how this capacity measure in hobdrive works? how to activate it exactly?
i have tried discharge the battery to less then 2Ah then start capacity measure but this damn button is sometimes red sometimes yellow or green. then it say sometimes not run, executing or not completed...
wtf :evil:
the developer does not know anything about it or wont tell me the steps i have to follow.
does someone completed this capacity measure succesfully? how can i make it work?
thanks
could someone please explain me how this capacity measure in hobdrive works? how to activate it exactly?
i have tried discharge the battery to less then 2Ah then start capacity measure but this damn button is sometimes red sometimes yellow or green. then it say sometimes not run, executing or not completed...
wtf :evil:
the developer does not know anything about it or wont tell me the steps i have to follow.
does someone completed this capacity measure succesfully? how can i make it work?
thanks
ghostdriver said:
Found below hint on another forum, didn’t try that myself though..
“Discharged it till bms cut off at 2,8v and recharged it with the hobdrive capacity measure function.”
Mickey
I have a Citroën C-Zero 2011 and tried to use Hobdrive to see the cell voltages and the battery capacity. I have two OBD2 dongles - an old one Konnwei KW901, which supports BT3, and a new one, vGate iCar Pro with BT4.0. I tried the vGate one with my iPhone and my other car (Ford Focus) using several other application and it did work. Those applications did not want to connect to C-Zero, though. One app showed that it connected to ELM but failed to find ECU. The dongles blinked with its lights during the process.
I tried the vGate with Hobdrive at iPhone and iPad and it failed to connect. When I choose Bluetooth in the connection settings, it shows the message “OK, see the adapter but don’t see the vehicle”. The lights on the obd dongle don’t blink and I get the same message even if the dongle is not connected to the car. It seems there is some glitch so the program doesn’t even try to connect. When I press “ELM327 adapter test” the app just crashes.
Ended up borrowing an old Android phone and Hobdrive worked well with both of the dongles I have.
Another issue in the iPhone app: I have my locale in the phone set to Swedish. When I start the app I think it mixes it up with Slovakian and display it in that language. I guess “se” is interpreted as “sv”. Had to switch the phone locale to English in order to test it properly.
Thanks for your effort developing the app, hope the issues with the iOS app could be fixed. There seems to be no alternative that works with C-Zero and iOS.
I tried the vGate with Hobdrive at iPhone and iPad and it failed to connect. When I choose Bluetooth in the connection settings, it shows the message “OK, see the adapter but don’t see the vehicle”. The lights on the obd dongle don’t blink and I get the same message even if the dongle is not connected to the car. It seems there is some glitch so the program doesn’t even try to connect. When I press “ELM327 adapter test” the app just crashes.
Ended up borrowing an old Android phone and Hobdrive worked well with both of the dongles I have.
Another issue in the iPhone app: I have my locale in the phone set to Swedish. When I start the app I think it mixes it up with Slovakian and display it in that language. I guess “se” is interpreted as “sv”. Had to switch the phone locale to English in order to test it properly.
Thanks for your effort developing the app, hope the issues with the iOS app could be fixed. There seems to be no alternative that works with C-Zero and iOS.
Are the numbers important for settings? Why did you put them there please?ok .
I am struggling to get connected to my Miev MiniCabs 2012 and 2017 to clear fault messages after a faulty fast charge completion.
Did you try Car Scanner already, much simpler to work with.
Hi, thanks, this seems to work fine on my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, but when I downloaded the Playstore app, and when I let the playstore update this version, the version installed crashes instantly on startup. I don't know if you're the person to tell, but there we are.
It makes me kinda nervous about paying the not insignificant price of the full version in case it does the same.
Why do you want to pay for hobdrive software as much money as for cloned OpenPort 2.0? https://myimiev.com/threads/overvie...ters-their-functionality-and-the-future.5719/
Even if i would have to choose between spending money for hobdrive or spending more money to work with the Diagbox software using the ACTIA PSA XS EVOLUTION vci i would choose ACTIA PSA XS EVOLUTION over hobdrive.
Spending money on closed source software is never a good solution. Better spend money in better hardware gear and do not pay a penny for closed source software if somehow possible. In this case Diagbox and MUT-3 software both do not cost anything on the software side. I am not aware of a source to get the full hobdrive software for free.
Because you don’t need to have/buy a spare laptop?
Some folks like to support developers and use legitimate SW.
IMHO $20 is a fair price considering what it can do, that it works with cheap OBD dongles and can be used with any car brand/model.
There is no need for a spare laptop.
No one is telling you not to pay for example always 10 or 100 or 1000$ for each git commit that is useful to humanity. Have you given for example money as support to this developer for this commit? https://github.com/DavidCecil50/OBDZero/commit/9a85313103d5f0d18d78c8d87b5d383a979968a4
You have to define what 'legitimate SW' is for you because it does not make sense here.
If you talk about unmodified closed source software, then you should stop using Diagbox and use MUT3 SE instead. The Diagbox versions available out there are known to be hardly modified by some random people. An other point of 'legitimate' wording could be to use the software of the people who also wrote the software running in the micro controllers of the car you drive. So the only 'legitimate' software in this wording here is MUT-3 SE.
But payed closed source software from a third party that is self telling to have copied the functionality out of MUT-3 SE is by far the least thing you can call 'legitimate SW'.
You can for example ask the Hobdrive developer how much money he wants to release Hobdrive under a free and open source license and then pay that money to him. This would have a benefit to more then a single person so that is the way to go.
I’ve ordered a cheap OBD dongle and tested it with HobDrive (Android); it does work….
Please don't take it seriously, but do you by any chance have this Ukr---ian syndrome of having everything for free? Do you get paid for your work or do you also work for free?
It is your right to decide for yourself what to do
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the original licensed software also costs a decent amount of money.for monitoring your car, the hob demo works quite well, perhaps you need to delete it and only then install a new version, you can also roll back the update to an earlier version, everything is available on their page.I think so, you decide for yourself how to do it
