I have a Treo 650. I heard someone connecting his Palm One PDA (just an old phone), to check on his car. Im not sure what exactly he was checking, if it were just the problems of the car (like the misfiring), or something else. I was wondering who here has connected their phone or PDA to their Evos via Hotsync cable.

Also, what good stuff does the PDA go in handy aside from the problem codes? Would you be able to montior the A/F ratio, or at least the Speed/RPM of the car?

chris

 

With the proper interface (T16-003) and the proper software, you can connect your PDA to the ODB-II port and monitor whatever the software allows. We generally do this with old, crappy, cheap PDAs, but you may be able to do it on your Treo if there is software written for that operating system. I don't think the software we use would be compatible, but I'm not sure.

To answer your basic question, though, you can't just hook up the Treo to the car with the hotsync cable, and even if you got the interface ($85), you wouldn't be able to read anything without software...

 

yes, actually, turbolarry (from socalevo) gave me these links:

http://www.multiplex-engineering.com/interfaces.htm - for the interface.
http://students.db.erau.edu/~szabafab/stein/ - for the free software.

also, a great guy to deal with.

 

Yeah, turbolarry and I work together a lot on Evotuners.net. I use the same things you listed, but I had no idea that software would work on a new Treo. That's good to know...

 

no, i wasnt sure if the software did work on my treo... hopefully it does... or if not, hopefully theres a program speficically for my treo

 

Since Palm owns treo and the treo runs the palm OS it should work. I may have to try this myself.

 

bump to the top for a couple more opinions.

 

Well, the software is free. Go download it and see for yourself...

 

i tried to download the software and installed it in my PDA, it doesnt work... =(

does anyone know a program i can use with my treo? any type of program that works with the evo...

 

anyone?

 

If you go on Ebay and do a search for obd II there are a lot of options. I got onesimilar to this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

 

I've done it with my Treo 600 with the Nology set up. It works. You can monitor anything that comes through the OBD-II, and it has some sort of dyno on it.

Here's the website: www.nology.com

The software is free to try out, but you have to buy the connector for the OBD-II.