Theviper1987 Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Sort of says it in the title. Who is using a Bluetooth adapter? Are they worth the £75 price tag? Are they laggy. Or is it just a cool gadget to show off with down the pub? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheesy Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Yes, I wrote a whole lot then lost it. Im using the blue one here Its no where near £75 (that must plug into the DB9 socket?), more like $20 NZD (around £7) for two of them and the red programmer (you dont really need this but it is easier). I replaced the header pins on it so it sticks up out of the end on the ECU above the LEDs. The first one I had died but it may have been something to do with my installation, first I used the wires that came with it and they do not like vibration and second I still had the MAX323 IC on the board and supposedly these are not supposed to be run in parallel with them but connect directly to the Tx Rx of the CPU. As for lag, I have never noticed any. the only issue I have is the ignition on the RRC having to be turned off after cranking to crank again, this causes the ECU to reset and requires the Bluetooth device to re-connect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheesy Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Post #32 here is how I did mine the first time, it is pretty much the same now except I used the red programmer instead of the MS board to program the module, I now have proper wire connecting the board to the module and have removed the MAX323 IC from the board (it was in a socket so no big issue) http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=87950&page=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theviper1987 Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 I'm not to keep on playing inside the ms box. I was looking at one of these. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=151049864676&alt=web Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theviper1987 Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 I'm not to keep on playing inside the ms box. I was looking at one of these. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=151049864676&alt=web Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheesy Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Well as long as you can set the baud rate to 9600 or 115200 depending on your ECU, and as long as pin 9 in the db7 has power it should work well, it does seem excessively expensive though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheesy Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Well as long as you can set the baud rate to what you need and pin 9 of the MS has power it should work fine, just seems very expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theviper1987 Posted December 22, 2015 Author Share Posted December 22, 2015 That's what I though but if it works I don't mind paying it. Thanks. I'm running ms1 btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Smith Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Be aware that with BT you may get a significantly worse read rate compared to RS232/USB wired connection. When I was doing development work on MSLogger & MSDroid I would get about 50% of the data rate over BT. There are more variables in the connection and more things to add delay. You may get lucky and have an excellent adapter with an excellent BT stack, but if you want the highest possible resolution in logging, stick with a wired connection. Regards, Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quagmire Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I have successfully done 4 this way, for ms1 and ms2: http://omgpham.com/bluetooth-x-megasquirt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientGeek Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 This is the one I use with MS1 and MSDroid http://www.ebay.com/itm/RS232-Bluetooth-Serial-Adapter-Communication-Master-Slave-2-Modes-MINI-USB-DF-/331729183618 You can't just plug it in. The RS232 is the wrong sex and the pinouts are weird. I had to make a custom cable but it works great. I like Cheesy's method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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