First of all, please excuse my laborious English. It’s from my school days and it was a long time ago…
I’m new to Real Dash and I think the software is great!
Let me explain my project.
I own a Fiat Grande Punto that competes in R3D rally classes.
It’s a very unusual vehicle and its electronics are quite basic.
I would like to use Real Dash to monitor data like coolant temperature and fuel level, for example. I connected an OBDLink MS+ to a phone with the Real Dash app, but there’s very little information (date, time, and outside temperature, I think).
I connected the MS+ via a CAN adapter, and you’ll see the CAN monitor logs attached.
What did I do wrong to not have any information?
Do you have any ideas?
I should point out that I’m not an expert, that I’m trying to find out more, but I don’t understand everything, but I’m hanging on…
The ultimate goal would be to create a dashboard where the screen turns on and off with the vehicle, or I still have hope…
Thank you for reading and sorry again for my English…
Try to find CAN descriptions from Internet. A DBC file can be converted to RealDash XML file relatively easily.
Reverse engineer the CAN messages manually by investigating the values in CAN Monitor. This can take a long time and requires some deep understanding of bits/bytes and typical conversions.
If there’s no software to interpret the data, how can we find it?
The Multiecuscan software understands the information. Do you think there’s a way to retrieve the information Multiecuscan understands and transcribe it into RealDash, for example?
Sincerely,