dtbaker61
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- MME (delivered 2/26/21), DIY eMiata BEV
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Yesterday I hooked my Viecar OBDII reader up in Marlin again. While it still was not working with their own Auto Doctor software, it did work with Car Scanner. Cool. All I did was check to see if it worked and connected and left testing to today. I left the Viecar plugged in over night.
This morning I had some errands to run, so I figured I would test Car Scanner and also see if I could get ABRP connected to the Viecar. I drove to my first stop, checked Car Scanner and saw it had not reconnected today, so I told it to reconnect. Immediately Marlin started lighting up with most of the warnings I remember including some about object detections, power warnings, and finally seek service soon, a wrench, and stop vehicle safely now. Of course, I was parked the whole time. ?
I promptly removed the Viecar reader and tried to restart. It would not recognize my phone. I decided to just turn Marlin off and let him settle down. When I came back a few minutes later, Marlin started fine (using PaaK), recognized my profile but was in Engage mode (although the Unbridled markings were on the Instrument Display, and he wouldn't change to Unbridled. After my next stop I tried Unbridled again with no luck but was able to switch to Whisper and then into Unbridled. Everything else settled back down fine.
I'd like to get it working with ABRP but I'm a little scared of freaking Marlin out again since we have a long trip to make starting Sunday. I also know the sort of trouble folks have had getting bricked Mach Es back on the road ?
@dtbaker61: Did you run into anything like this with the Viecar?
I left my Viecar ODB2 plugged into the port for the last several months.... no problems. But I rarely 'connected' to CarScanner during that period.
I don't think I ever left CarScanner connected when I turned MME off.... maybe it needs to be 'disconnected' via the CarScanner interface to politely shut down all the ODB2 communication.
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