OBD WLAN for iphone

[mjstokes85]

I am just investigating these plug in boxes that you can then connect your smart phone/tablet up to to get real time diagnostics. I have read that iphones won't work with a bluetooth one and that I would need a WLAN one, is this correct? In any case I have seen this "WiFi WLAN OBD2 ELM327" on ebay for 99p. Has anyone with an apple device used anything like this?

 

[rainbird]

I have the ELM 327 Wifi jobby (can't post link/pic as not enough posts) and it works perfectly running DashCommand on iPhone.

iDevices will work on Bluetooth if you buy certain silly-expensive dongles or have a good old play with some questionably legal software, but for the sake of a few quid to buy the wifi dongle instead it's not really worth the faff.

 

[mjstokes85]

I have the ELM 327 Wifi jobby (can't post link/pic as not enough posts) and it works perfectly running DashCommand on iPhone.

iDevices will work on Bluetooth if you buy certain silly-expensive dongles or have a good old play with some questionably legal software, but for the sake of a few quid to buy the wifi dongle instead it's not really worth the faff.

Awesome, thank you ! I didn't want to spend £35 quid on dash command to find it wouldn't work, it's a pricey app. I have read you can jailbreak and then use bluetooth but I don't really want to have to do that just for one app.

 

[cupra.al]

im thinking about going for this now could save charging the laptop and lugging it out to the car each time i want to check things.
post up what you think of it if you get it mjstoke85.

 

[mjstokes85]

I am bidding on one on ebay for £12 at the min. I was considering a VCDS set up but this will be a much cheaper option.

 

[rainbird]

Yeah - DashCOmmand with a wifi OBD sender should work just fine. I think I paid around £15 for mine, so if you were to pay for DC app too you'd be looking at around £50 all in. I may or may not have bothered with that though...

 

[mjstokes85]

I may or may not have bothered with that though...

Explain

 

[rainbird]

I hear whispers that it may be possible to find the app through alternate means if you are running a jailbreak. I wouldn't know though, so couldn't possibly confirm this.

 

[GlanzaV]

Problem with these is that you can only read yes? (or am I mistaken?) So going "legally" you'll only have read facility for ~£50 whereas with VCDS you can write and alter settings etc?

 

[GMan_88]

My iPhone is Jailbroken, its dead simple to do if you know a little about how the firmware works, but can potentially brick your phone if you don't. I will look into this evening and report back to you all with my results

 

[rainbird]

Yeah, you're far better off getting something along the lines of VCDS, but if that's not an option and you just want to read/clear codes and do some logging/use the virtual dash functions or whatever then DC/Torque/similar are perfectly capable. For the price of an OBD sender you can't go too far wrong