COOL remote windows feature available now!!!

[ChrisGTL]

Still waiting for delivery of mine, but is quite obviously the easier option.

Did you ever get this? One thing i dont understand is it say there is a 'one touch' and 'hold on' version depending on car.

The Leon is classed as 'one touch', does this mean the windows will go up/down when you lock/unlock the car?

Also, anyone tried these door alarm LEDS? http://www.vagproducts.co.uk/led.html

 

[Chemical Al]

seem to remember that you needed to have the "right" cable, as for which cable it is was a mystery

 

[paradigm]

Assuming "any" cable works, then I'm sure I could get this to work with USB, although it would involve some faffing around!

Can anyone confirm that as long as the cable works with VAG-COM, it will work with VDC?

 

[Chemical Al]

yes i can confirm that not just any cable will work and that if it works with vag com it probably wont work, but go try anyway

 

[paradigm]

Do you know what type of cable you have to have then?

Or a schematic for the cable?

 

[Chemical Al]

no and no, but i have tried a few including a login code reader cable and none of them have worked

 

[Jille]

As far as I know, no-one has succeeded yet in emulating a port in Windows and getting it to work with VDS Pro...

But you can always try to connect when using VMWare. I don't think anyone has tried it yet. Just trying to connect won't break anything. Just remember to write things down, in case you succeed

 

[paradigm]

My question is this; Does anyone reckon I could run VMWare (or other virtual PC type software) with the COM port emulated in Windows, install DOS in the virtual PC, and then use the emulated COM port to run VDS Pro?

That is exactly what I have tried.

Unfortunately though, as has been said, the VAG-COM cables don't work.

 

[Jille]

I don't think it's the VAG-COM cables that don't work, it's all in the software... the (serial)cables allow for flawless interaction with VDS Pro, it's just that USB and DOS don't go hand in hand together...

 

[paradigm]

That isn't it at all.

Within windows, the USB cable is seen as a COM (serial) port anyway, so as far as any software is concerned, it IS a COM port.

Secondly, running VDS PRO from within a Virtual Machine, with its COM1 mapped to the hosts emulated COM port (the USB cable), would mean that the virtual machine just sees "COM1". No USB drivers, no nothing.

The cable is the problem, not the software, nor the implementation thereof.

 

[Jille]

Then why does my serial vagcom cable work correctly with vds-pro?
I think it's the emulation of the comport that's causing the problems... the USB cable uses USB-to-COM drivers... which are faking a COM port.

 

[paradigm]

They are, but they are faking a COM port with exact precision.

I could understand it if I was running VDS PRO within the environment that had the emulation software (drivers) running. But it isn't, its fully isolated.

 

[Jille]

yes, but the emulation drivers are running in the OS that you use to run VMWare in... aren't they?

Then the hierarchy is like this:

Windows XP with cable-drivers
VMWare (running in Windows)
DOS image (running in VMWare)

So it is truly a COM port in DOS, but it's still an emulation.
The cable suits the ISO-standard so that shouldn't be the problem...

 

[paradigm]

Hmm. Does it matter what style of cable it is? I mean, there have been a fair few revisions of VAG-COM compatible leads over the years.

What model is yours?

 

[paradigm]

That is exactly what I did, and can confirm it will not work.

 

[Molehill_Mike]

Deffo wanna try this! Will do in a couple of weeks!

 

[Havok316]

for the usb cables cant you just run the software on a DOS command prompt within windows?

 

[paradigm]

No. The windows HAL gets in the way.

 

[Havok316]

can anyone extract the files from the ISO image? If i can get the files i can change keyboard layout and possibly get a DOS driver to work ive tried 3 programs and simply cant access the files.

 

[paradigm]

Here you go:

http://www.paradigital.net/SCN/VDCPRO.zip