Be sure to use an OBD adapter that do not accept unsolicited pairing requests.
2016/08/26
Connected Car vs Cyberattacks
"Connected cars are quickly rising and becoming part of everybody’s life. According to a MarketsandMarkets forecast, this industry will reach $46.69 Billion by 2020. So far so good, but, this evolution comes hand in hand with cyber threats expansion, so, there is only one thing we can do – make sure security comes first." - https://www.rickscloud.com/connected-car-vs-cyberattacks/
2016/08/20
Understanding Hybrid Assistant "bubble" charts
Hybrid Assistant uses "bubbles" to represent data on scatter charts.
Size and color are proportional to accuracy of the data point represented.
Check the following chart, that depicts relationship between RPM of the petrol engine and kW produced.
For each RPM value, all kW measured at that regime are averaged and plotted.
A blue, large dot is made up from few collected values, so it's precision is low and the plotted point may be affected by statistical errors.
An orange, medium dot is plotted when more data is available and precision is higher.
A small red dot means that a sufficent samples were collected to have a reliable value.
Longer trips lead to more defined charts.
Size and color are proportional to accuracy of the data point represented.
Check the following chart, that depicts relationship between RPM of the petrol engine and kW produced.
For each RPM value, all kW measured at that regime are averaged and plotted.
A blue, large dot is made up from few collected values, so it's precision is low and the plotted point may be affected by statistical errors.
An orange, medium dot is plotted when more data is available and precision is higher.
A small red dot means that a sufficent samples were collected to have a reliable value.
Longer trips lead to more defined charts.
2016/08/08
2016/08/07
New Release
News:
- STFT and LTFT are now collected (for analysis of gas powered cars)
- Additional panels for engine and battery details (tap engine and battery icons to open)
2016/08/04
New Release
News:
- Report is now in HTML format
- Battery report is now in tabular format with highlight of notable values
- ICE power color is now more readable for 2.5L engines
- Battery Fan control touch area extended
- Fix for km count truncation
- Ignition Timing is now shown along RPM (useful for cars using alternative fuels)
- Fix for S1a detection
New Release
News:
- Report is now in HTML format
- Battery report is now in tabular format with highlight of notable values
- ICE power color is now more readable for 2.5L engines
- Battery Fan control touch area extended
- Fix for km count truncation
- Ignition Timing is now shown along RPM (useful for cars using alternative fuels)
- Fix for S1a detection
2016/08/03
2016/08/02
Quality of OBD adapters
While the Hybrid Assistant team tries to support as many OBD adapters as possible, some of them are just plain garbage.
Most of them are based on the ELM327 chip, or better, an older version of it.
The first version of the ELM327 was released without any copy prevention measures.
This leaded to a number of unauthorized low-cost clones.
While the official ELM327 grew from version to version, security mechanisms were introduced to discourage copies.
So, right now, there are several clones claiming to be the latest version, while they are simply renamed clones of the old one.
While the chip identifies itself as a newer version, its command set is still the older one, so some command are not behaving as expected.
Another whole group of clones even cut shorts on components: low quality interfaces and controllers, and even missing components.
Buying this products supports piracy and divert resources from companies investing in developing new products.
Links to original source:
http://can-newsletter.org/tools/tools-miscellaneous/nr_elm327_wgsoft_140123/
http://prius-touring-club.com/vbf/showpost.php?p=310628&postcount=121
Most of them are based on the ELM327 chip, or better, an older version of it.
The first version of the ELM327 was released without any copy prevention measures.
This leaded to a number of unauthorized low-cost clones.
While the official ELM327 grew from version to version, security mechanisms were introduced to discourage copies.
So, right now, there are several clones claiming to be the latest version, while they are simply renamed clones of the old one.
While the chip identifies itself as a newer version, its command set is still the older one, so some command are not behaving as expected.
Another whole group of clones even cut shorts on components: low quality interfaces and controllers, and even missing components.
Buying this products supports piracy and divert resources from companies investing in developing new products.
Links to original source:
http://can-newsletter.org/tools/tools-miscellaneous/nr_elm327_wgsoft_140123/
http://prius-touring-club.com/vbf/showpost.php?p=310628&postcount=121
New Release
New release with some fixes to bugs reported by users, and a couple of new stats:
- iCar and some other ELM327-based adapters should work now
- layout fix for truncated/too big text
- battery temperature readings for Prius 2 and RX400
- kW for RPM added to report
- kW generated while braking added to report
2016/08/01
Quick User Guide
A Quick User Guide for Hybrid Assistant is available
You can get it at this link in english or at this link in Spanish
You can get it at this link in english or at this link in Spanish