Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 07:21 am, by: Tom Richards(Tomr)
i have a ELM 327 that i cannot get to operate on the vz commodore.
I have installed a blue tooth dongle to a usb port on my pc. I have set the incoming and outgoing ports to com2. I have set the ELM327 to com2 but cannot get any communication .
The pc is about 5-6M from the car. Is this distance too far for the ELM327. The bluetooth dongle is good for 50M.
Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - 08:44 am, by: Tom Richards(Tomr)
further to the above, i paired the dongle with my phone. I also downloaded easyOBDII but same result no coms, same as with the software that came with the elm327.
Friday, January 03, 2014 - 07:05 am, by: Mark Donovan(Mark_donovan)
Can't help with the above, Tom, but I would be a bit doubtful of Bluetooth having a range of 50m - Bluetooth is for short distance networking, so I would say a maximum of about 10m/30ft. I may be wrong, but I work in IT and to the best of my knowledge 50m for Bluetooth would be very unusual.