ECUControl BETA

What ECU Control does is to connect to your bluetooth dongle and retrieve different information directly from your ECU --or ECM, like many people call it, I'm not quite sure of the nomenclature. So far it is in a very early stage, and it is very likely that it will not work for you. The purpose of this is to get some feedback on how does it feel and whether it works or not. I have a long way to go, but I think that with your help I might be able to make something actually kinda cool.

For the app to work it is required to have one of those cheap ELM327 bluetooth dongles. If you don't have one, I highly recommend to get one.

If you have comments or suggestions I would rather have them by email, don't waste your time with the comments or ratings because I can't reply to those and this is not a final product, just a BETA.

Now let's get a little more technical... this is what the app can do at this moment:

- Connect to the bluetooth dongle, at least with my phone, ECU and dongle, but yours might not work

- Give real-time data of the gauges shown on the screenshots above. In the future, it will support more gauges however, the speed at which the gauges are updated will most likely not get any better. Right now, you might experience a delay of up to 2 seconds...

- Manual input of OBD commands, mostly for debugging purposes, but feel free to mess with that at your own risk.

- Let the user select the gauges from a list and customize his own gauges and how they display

- HUD (Heads Up Display) using the video from the camera as a background instead of the plain black

What the app will do in the near future:

- Read and diagnose check engine light codes

- Improve the horrible-looking user interface

- Fix certain bugs regarding the settings management


What the app is expected to do in the long term:

- Make it 'social' by sharing highest gauge values, like max speed or max rpm, also share the different gauge displays that people make up

- Support different skins for the gauge displays

- This is a really long shot, but I might take a stab at dynamic ECU mapping (tunning)


Known issues:

- The app is in Kilometers per hour instead of Miles per hour, and the settings to change it might not be functional yet

- You may not be able to connect... once again, I only have one set of phone-ECU-bt dongle to test with, so that will take time to diagnose and solve

- The user interface sucks, I also didn't put much effort on the vertical gauges display, I will put more work on that in the near future, also the application icon will be changed

- The gauges seem slow and sluggish. I tried my best to make the gauges look smooth, even though the apparent delay is inevitable, the bottleneck is the crappy bluetooth dongle and the ELM327 protocol

- The connection gets lost at random times, I really don't know how to look into this one...

- The brake sensor displays highly inaccurate data