OBDEleven Formentor - See below for working ones

[Tell]

Convenience opening it is .

 

[flatbone]

Yes, the setting in the menu is there and active by default. Maybe there was some glitch at the time when I tried it and it didn't work. Now it seems to be working fine without any changes..

On another topic, I have another issue in mind, since I recently drove behind a fellow formentor at a stop light, one evening. I noticed how bright the brake lights are and how annoying it must be for people behind.

Is there any way of reducing the brightness of the brake lights when auto hold is active? Or stop it altogether. I remember that previously, cars did not turn on the brake lights when fully stopped with auto hold active, at least with VAG cars.

 

[Tell]

If it's LED you won't be able to alter the brightness. The filament ones you could. Pass on the stop light. I did at one stage tell people the wrong thing on the Ateca. It's a two person task to check autohold and that light. If you open the door to check it turns it off. You need to drop the window and get a second person to check. My mistake with the Ateca behaviour. In the past I concluded atleast for the Ateca you could not change the behaviour.

 

[flatbone]

Yes, brake lights are 100% on, with auto hold, on the Formentor.
It's easy to check at night, since everything lights up red behind 🫠

The only time the brake lights are off, when stationary, is when gearbox is in P aka engaging the electronic parking break and foot off the brake, obviously.

I'm quite conscious of the brake lights now and I imagine many people don't even know this is the case. Most believe the driver is depressing the brake pedal.

To me it's such a weird setting and doesn't really make sense, especially since there is no option otherwise.

I know there was some brightness value setting through long coding on the fog lights.. I was hoping on a similar setting for the "auto hold brake light" value

 

[Tell]

Yes, brake lights are 100% on, with auto hold, on the Formentor.
It's easy to check at night, since everything lights up red behind 🫠

The only time the brake lights are off, when stationary, is when gearbox is in P aka engaging the electronic parking break and foot off the brake, obviously.

I'm quite conscious of the brake lights now and I imagine many people don't even know this is the case. Most believe the driver is depressing the brake pedal.

To me it's such a weird setting and doesn't really make sense, especially since there is no option otherwise.

I know there was some brightness value setting through long coding on the fog lights.. I was hoping on a similar setting for the "auto hold brake light" value

I've stopped worrying about dazzling people behind. It does depend on how bright those lights are.

 

[GORDYDJ]

Well they are looking for volume sales. If people want to buy it more fool them as they say. Obdeleven is good at marketing.

Not sure about that. Was reading an old thread on the obdeleven forum recently.
It was discussing changes the company had made to the app. Such as removing the 200 points for signing up for an account (falsely claiming it was only ever a limited time offer}, free points for watching ads. It also mentioned how Voltas have tried different methods since then to try & boost sales.
One poster was able to point out how the move had hit profits.
I certainly wish I had read all that before buying the dongle. Even if you buy the pro sub you still have to pay for using 1 click apps.

 

[Tell]

Not sure about that. Was reading an old thread on the obdeleven forum recently.
It was discussing changes the company had made to the app. Such as removing the 200 points for signing up for an account (falsely claiming it was only ever a limited time offer}, free points for watching ads. It also mentioned how Voltas have tried different methods since then to try & boost sales.
One poster was able to point out how the move had hit profits.
I certainly wish I had read all that before buying the dongle. Even if you buy the pro sub you still have to pay for using 1 click apps.

Really most of the mods you do in the first one or two years then you could drop the Pro license if you wish. The one click apps are really to challenge the other one click dongles. The good thing about obdeleven is you can use it either way. The pro you do know what the coding is. One click apps may not be fully tested. They are crowd sourced now by people that buy all the bells and whistles one click app development tool. The problem is if not fully tested they may not work. The drop mirror, heated seat one on Leon 3 is a case in point. The app won't go, ah you have got heated seats so I'll do this rather than that. I hate macros in spreadsheets so why I hate one click apps . Don't like black box approaches, want to see what it does.