Finally... Bluetooth for OBD1 and Android!
#41
#42
I finally bit the bullet and bought the Bluetooth module from 1320 Electronics a couple of weeks back. I can finally throw out my old XP laptop and serial cable! I don't know how it works versus the Red Devil unit, but I haven't had any trouble yet. It just has a power LED and data LED. Did you ever get things resolved with yours?
#44
I finally bit the bullet and bought the Bluetooth module from 1320 Electronics a couple of weeks back. I can finally throw out my old XP laptop and serial cable! I don't know how it works versus the Red Devil unit, but I haven't had any trouble yet. It just has a power LED and data LED. Did you ever get things resolved with yours?
#46
I'm glad you have a new unit on the way. I hope it works! It's nice having this stuff for the older cars!
I tried Torque Lite last night and it didn't work on my car. I think it is only for OBD2 cars. For ALDL cars there is ALDLDroid that looks similar. I haven't bought it yet ($20) but it should work with both ALDL Bluetooth devices from what I've seen.
I tried Torque Lite last night and it didn't work on my car. I think it is only for OBD2 cars. For ALDL cars there is ALDLDroid that looks similar. I haven't bought it yet ($20) but it should work with both ALDL Bluetooth devices from what I've seen.
#47
I'm glad you have a new unit on the way. I hope it works! It's nice having this stuff for the older cars!
I tried Torque Lite last night and it didn't work on my car. I think it is only for OBD2 cars. For ALDL cars there is ALDLDroid that looks similar. I haven't bought it yet ($20) but it should work with both ALDL Bluetooth devices from what I've seen.
I tried Torque Lite last night and it didn't work on my car. I think it is only for OBD2 cars. For ALDL cars there is ALDLDroid that looks similar. I haven't bought it yet ($20) but it should work with both ALDL Bluetooth devices from what I've seen.
I bought ALDLDroid, downloaded it to an Android pad. I plan to keep in Vert. Since my RD unit didn't work I haven't got to see how it functions yet. I plan to try my Moates cable with it to check it out.
#48
Success!!!
Update...I received the Red Devil Bluetooth unit back today from Timm. I was able to connect to Tuner Pro RT with my laptop using Bluetooth on my second try. I didn't spend a lot of time with it but with a quick look over the data all seemed valid and connection remained for a few minutes while the car was running. AWESOME!!! Just an FYI the light on my unit now blinks red after cycling through the lights at startup, before sending back to Timm for him to repair it was blinking blue. Whatever he did worked so I give Timm a positive thumbs up for following through and getting it to work. He is tough to get a hold of, but once I did he took action.
MORE work is to be done with connecting to ALDLDroid. I was not able to connect today using my tablet. I don't think it is the Red Devil unit. It pairs up no problem and changes color when I click connect to ECU in the app. I suspect it is a adx file issue. I sent the developer an email today on it. I will report back as we get it worked out.
All in all I am excited to have the Bluetooth working with my laptop. I am also pretty confident we will get ALDLDroid figured out.
MORE work is to be done with connecting to ALDLDroid. I was not able to connect today using my tablet. I don't think it is the Red Devil unit. It pairs up no problem and changes color when I click connect to ECU in the app. I suspect it is a adx file issue. I sent the developer an email today on it. I will report back as we get it worked out.
All in all I am excited to have the Bluetooth working with my laptop. I am also pretty confident we will get ALDLDroid figured out.
#49
Update...I received the Red Devil Bluetooth unit back today from Timm. I was able to connect to Tuner Pro RT with my laptop using Bluetooth on my second try. I didn't spend a lot of time with it but with a quick look over the data all seemed valid and connection remained for a few minutes while the car was running. AWESOME!!! Just an FYI the light on my unit now blinks red after cycling through the lights at startup, before sending back to Timm for him to repair it was blinking blue. Whatever he did worked so I give Timm a positive thumbs up for following through and getting it to work. He is tough to get a hold of, but once I did he took action.
MORE work is to be done with connecting to ALDLDroid. I was not able to connect today using my tablet. I don't think it is the Red Devil unit. It pairs up no problem and changes color when I click connect to ECU in the app. I suspect it is a adx file issue. I sent the developer an email today on it. I will report back as we get it worked out.
All in all I am excited to have the Bluetooth working with my laptop. I am also pretty confident we will get ALDLDroid figured out.
MORE work is to be done with connecting to ALDLDroid. I was not able to connect today using my tablet. I don't think it is the Red Devil unit. It pairs up no problem and changes color when I click connect to ECU in the app. I suspect it is a adx file issue. I sent the developer an email today on it. I will report back as we get it worked out.
All in all I am excited to have the Bluetooth working with my laptop. I am also pretty confident we will get ALDLDroid figured out.
#50
Success again!!!
Today the developer of ALDLDroid helped me to get the Red Devil Bluetooth unit working with my Android tablet. He recognized something in the debugging file and had to make an adjustment to the ADX to temporarily fix it. He plans to make a change to the ALDLDroid app to correct it permanently. So after many weeks of trying we have success with a 1990 L98 OBD1 using the Red Devil Bluetooth unit to a laptop using Tuner Pro RT and also to a Android tablet using ALDLDroid.
Thank you to everyone for your help and input and I will try my best to help any others that are attempting to get Bluetooth to work on your OBD1 Vette.
Cheers!
Thank you to everyone for your help and input and I will try my best to help any others that are attempting to get Bluetooth to work on your OBD1 Vette.
Cheers!
#52
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Hey, sorry. For some reason, I'm not getting emails when people respond to this thread. Anyway, no. I've been away at school for the past couple months and haven't had the time. I'm going to give Timm a call here in a day or two and see what I can accomplish. Do you mind if I reference the phone conversation you had with him a while back? Especially since it seems to be the same issue? That will probably help out matters a lot..
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Hey, sorry. For some reason, I'm not getting emails when people respond to this thread. Anyway, no. I've been away at school for the past couple months and haven't had the time. I'm going to give Timm a call here in a day or two and see what I can accomplish. Do you mind if I reference the phone conversation you had with him a while back? Especially since it seems to be the same issue? That will probably help out matters a lot..
Thanks for following through with Timm and Sebastién, Rossy. Hopefully, we'll be the only two to experience these hiccups..
#54
Hey, sorry. For some reason, I'm not getting emails when people respond to this thread. Anyway, no. I've been away at school for the past couple months and haven't had the time. I'm going to give Timm a call here in a day or two and see what I can accomplish. Do you mind if I reference the phone conversation you had with him a while back? Especially since it seems to be the same issue? That will probably help out matters a lot..
#55
Safety Car
Any updates with this? Is there a Bluetooth adapter that works correctly? I'm very interested in buying it and using it with my android device.
#56
Burning Brakes
I don't have a serial ALDL cable, but I do have a Bluetooth serial adapter. I think this would work, but I cant test it. The adapter I have works with Windows 7 x64, but I think it depends more on the bluetooth adapter you have for your PC is wanted to use it this way.
#57
Safety Car
I don't have a serial ALDL cable, but I do have a Bluetooth serial adapter. I think this would work, but I cant test it. The adapter I have works with Windows 7 x64, but I think it depends more on the bluetooth adapter you have for your PC is wanted to use it this way.
#58
Burning Brakes
The idea I posted and you missed is that a serial to bluetooth adapter should work with an old serial aldl cable, and connect to most desktops, and mobile devices.
The adapter I have is intended to be used with a Megasquirt. It does connect to both android decives, and Windows PCs. It has a 9 pin serial connector for the connection.