Introducing the Engine Stage Assistant

The new release of Hybrid Assistant, for selected car models (Yaris, Auris, Prius3), will advise you about the engine stages. 

At car power-on, a "Play" icon will appear on the engine icon if the engine needs to be warmed up and will start in a few moments. 

You can prevent it by switching to N or selecting EV mode. 

When the right conditions for an idle check are met, a "Pause" icon will show up. 

If you begin to coast, the engine will perform the idle check and will switch to stage S4.

"HA Tips" - a video serie for HA users

With the help of an appassionate user, Robikinkela, from Hybrid Synergy Forum, the team is developing a serie of short videos with the goal to help the new user of HA to learn the application features.
The videos will be periodically published on the YouTube channel of Hybrid Assistant. A new video shall be broadcasted once per week.

The first video, an introduction to Hybrid Assistant, is ready for You on YouTube: "Using the App"

Subscribe to the Hybrid Assistant YouTube channel and stay tuned for new "HA Tips"

A new member joins our Team

The Hybrid Assistant team is growing: Davide Vitali is joining our team.
Davide is an experienced Android developer, with a long list of released apps.
Check his page at @Appsbydavidev.dev or at http://dev.appsbydavidev.it/
The new version of Hybrid Assistant already features his contributions:
- crash dump reporting: if an error occours, HA will ask for permission to send a dump to the developers
- new settings menu
- new settings page
- multilanguage translation (English, Italian, French, German, Spanish)
Other minor enhancements include:
- accelerator position is now displayed
- accelerator color is based on CHG/ECO/POWER meter
- fix for false readings on Prius Prime
- support for Toyota Highlander
- better detection of ICE spinning

LGP tweaking

A creative user from Hybrid Synergy Forum has found a way to use Hybrid Assistant for checking an LGP modified engine that was behaving erratically.

Using the fuel trim chart he helped the tech support to correct settings of the engine LGP control unit.

Full story is available here:

http://www.hybrid-synergy.eu/showthread.php?tid=62430&pid=701071#pid701071

By his suggestion, the new version of Hybrid Reporter now charts fuel trim corrections for each RPM range of the engine.

Here is the map of the misbehaving engine, with very high trims at high RPMs

After tweaking, the trims are back to lower values

LGP fuel quality evaluation

Joshue Martín de Blas, a long time friend of Hybrid Assistant, has put to good use the Fuel Trim charts of Hybrid Reporter.
In his own words:

These 2 Fuel trims graphics are of the same trip, but with different LPG brand. It's clear that in one case the effective Fuel Trim is bigger (and the fuel consumption higher also), because the ECU needs to make much more corrections tho the injection time.

some more information on fuel trims may be found here:
http://mitoyotaprius.mforos.com/1727338/13003776-como-saber-si-dos-combustibles-se-comportan-igual-ejemplo-con-glp/
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILm8sJrL2R0
and here:
http://www.lpgc.co.uk/index_files/Page736.htm

New Version

New version available.
Details on the Hybrid Assistant Facebook page

HV Battery Capacity Estimate

During an HV Check, an estimate of the battery capacity is also shown on screen.
All models (except Prius Plus and Prius Plugin) have a nominal 6.5 Ah battery capacity.
To evaluate capacity follow these guidelines:
1) be sure to have at least 60% SOC, engine and battery at operating temperatures (i.e. not too low or too high)
2) park the car
3) start A/C at the lowest temperature, to put some load on the battery
4) be sure the petrol engine is not running and have completed S1 phase
4) start HV Check
5) keep the check running until actual SOC is at least 10% less than the starting SOC

The Estimated Capacity will change color when enough data will be collected.

The same information is present on the report from Hybrid Reporter