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Tom59 Lifetime Member
Joined: Aug 05, 2006 Posts: 407 Location: Alconbury - UK
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:28 pm Post subject: OBD2 for iPhone |
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Hello, hopefully, someone can clear up a little mystery for me.
I am considering four different OBD2 apps for my iPhone 4.
One that I am interested in, sell their own Wi-Fi scanner on e.bay.com but they will not ship to UK. Another also sell their own scanner, but have no stock currently.
Does anyone know if I need to use a proprietary scanner with a particular app, or can I just buy a generic Chinese one?
Am I right in thinking that once the phone is connected to the car, any of the OBD app will work with it? I don't want to buy any old unit only to find that it is incompatible with my apps. _________________ TT Go 720 (T)
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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For use with the iPhone product range it used to be the case that you needed to use a WiFi OBD-II reader BUT Lemur brought out a product called "BlueDriver" which works with the iPhone 4 very well indeed.
When released it cost about £25 for the hardware but more recently it seems to have increased in price (still way cheaper than the OBD-II WiFi units) see Here to read what I thought about it - I still use it on mates cars as well as my own when need be.
I think you will find the device you choose will only work with software that offers specific hardware support so don't expect a cheap unit from China to work with all the different apps - Mike |
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Tom59 Lifetime Member
Joined: Aug 05, 2006 Posts: 407 Location: Alconbury - UK
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for that Mike. I have ordered a £23.cn unit, so I'll see what it does.
If its no good, then the Lemur unit looks quite good.
I tried to buy one for iOBD2 by Xtool, but they won't ship to UK _________________ TT Go 720 (T)
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