I am at this point and when I attempt to connect, the icon at the bottom of TunerPro that says "connecting" lights up but never connects.. Am I doing something wrong now?
I am at this point and when I attempt to connect, the icon at the bottom of TunerPro that says "connecting" lights up but never connects.. Am I doing something wrong now?
Bought 3 of these. Connected RXD to TXD together and then Connected them to pin M on ALDL for the 8192 Baud. And GND on the converter to GND on the ALDL.
Configured Com port settings for each, and the only thing that happens on attempting to start a scan is the RXD and TXD flash red repeatedly while TunerPro says "DA: Connecting......."
Without reading every post in 19 pages did we decide this is hit or miss, or doesn't work at all or?
Homemade injector flow bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_g9K0VEsfE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYMtJO0pX8
did you turn on cable echo in the adx or in preferences of tunerpro as they cable will pickup whats sent when you send it
Delcowizzid, can you elaborate on cable echo?
I've got a buddy with a computer science degree who is going to take a look at this.
It sounded too good and easy to be true, looks like it might be :/
Homemade injector flow bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_g9K0VEsfE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYMtJO0pX8
Thing passes cable found and functional test in TunerPro but still won't connect to datastream.
Homemade injector flow bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_g9K0VEsfE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYMtJO0pX8
Finally got it working. Guess my alligator clip ended test leads were corroded/broken and causing a no connection situation.
Stripped a little more wire and wound the wires diresctly to each other and it connects and successfully scans. Lots of intermittent data connection errors compared to the Moates cable, looks like a success but with that issue to work out.
Homemade injector flow bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_g9K0VEsfE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYMtJO0pX8
For those of you who haven't got this to work, it is a possibility that the breakout board is junk right outta the box. I ordered 3of these from the eBay link on post 1. ONLY ONE of my THREE boards is good so far. Streams data as good as the moates cable. The other two boards connect, but data flow is very intermittent because of the data errors, over and over. The only thing i can figure is the other two boards are defective after comparing and testing all 3 boards side by side. I'm going to contact the eBay seller and see what they plan to do about the two faulty boards i received. It is interesting how the Chinese get away with making so much trash. The 66% failure rate on these boards i have currently witnessed is not impressive.
Homemade injector flow bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_g9K0VEsfE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYMtJO0pX8
Hi Everyone!
Thanks for all this wonderful information. I've got a '95 Corsica with a transplanted V6 that I plan to plug into shortly to figure out what it's doing.
19 pages in, and I just need to make sure, as this does sound stupidly simple,
Solder TX & RX together, plug into Pin M on the ALDL plug
Plug GND into the Pin A on the ALDL plug
fire up Tuner Pro, and get info from the engine?
Anyone rigged one of these cables to a Raspberry PI to have it serve as a secondary cluster? My Corsica has Temp, Speed, and Fuel Level on the cluster. Would love a small gauge w\ other stats if that's possible.
Thanks!
You got it right man.
I ended up getting with a buddy and we hooked up to his Raspberry PI and we couldn't get those two modules to do a damn thing. They were DOA........ In the process of negotiating a resolution about the two junk modules with the Ebay seller Polida right now.
Homemade injector flow bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_g9K0VEsfE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBYMtJO0pX8
Awesome. Might order a pile of them, because TTL is also a great way to talk w\ JTAG ports on some other old equipment I have that I've busted firmware wise. Would be nice to see what it's doing and be able to repair them that way.
Without ordering one of those 12-pin to 16-pin cables off eBay for $5, it should be as simple as jabbing a wire into the socket that is tinned up so it'll make contact, correct? Possibly putting a blade into the back end so I can use an official diagnostics PC if I need to?
So, one of the three that I ordered arrived today. I tried stuffing tinned wires into the M & A slots on the jack, but didn't get anywhere. I then tried stripping a little of the ground & data wires on the back side of the plug and connecting some pigtails, but I can't find my multimeter to see if it worked, and my outlet in the garage is busted, so I can't solder it in. That's probably the biggest problem. Tuner pro sees it, I did all the hardware pre-checks and I can talk to it via a serial terminal, and it does pass the cable test in Tuner Pro RT, but no further.
Can someone provide me with the correct steps for getting TP talking w\ the ECU? Do I start the scan first? Do I start the engine, wait and then start getting data? Not sure what I've done wrong so far.
Thanks!
When you say TunerPro "sees it" what do you mean? Just because TP says there is a cable found doesnt mean it is communicating(obviously). What ecm/pcm are you using? If you don't have the correct ADX file you will never get data, or at best it will be skewed.
To start viewing data, you must...
Make sure sure youre computer recognizes(in device manager in Windows) the USB/Serial adapter you are using.
Connect interafce cable to ALDL connector. Make sure all connections are correct.
Open TPRT, Load the appropriate ADX file.
Open Tools/Preferences/Data Acq/Emulation.
Click "Configure Plug-In Component" and select the appropriate COM port for your cable.
At this point you should be able to click on the "Acquire Data/Connect/Disconnect" button.
If the Yellow "DA:Not Connected" indicator turns to "Blue" and says DA:Connected, open the dashboard and you should be viewing data. If not, rinse and repeat.
The engine doesn't have to be running but the ignition should be switched on to retrieve data.
Buddrow
If it don't fit force it, if it don't force fit f&%@ it!
I just finished this cable. I have a dash Guage setup on tunerpro. I can get it to communicate fine. O2 sensors show a equal value. The tps sensor fluctuates as it should. Now when start the car up everything goes nuts no gauge value is constant or accurate. Has anyone has this problem .could it be a Bad ground? I used a ground from under the dash. Thanks guys.
94(I'm told) lt1 from caddy into a 79 camro
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