Technical ELM 327 & Tablet...

[Mark03]

I had bought myself a a Windows Connect 8" Tablet as a birthday present, everything I have installed works fine except for when I bought an ELM 327 reader, this one was a USB version that a person was selling.

I nearly bought a BlueTooth one but the make of fit looked a bit dubious.

Anyway, I set up a really old laptop with windows XP and find that the programs work perfectly fine, the ELM Scan master scans all the com ports for the ELM hardware and it reads the program data just fine.

So for portability and practical reasons, mainly because the batteries in the laptop are completely stuffed and pulling power results in a shutdown within 3 seconds of power removal, I tried my windows tablet.

The problem...

The software is not searching for the com ports that the hardware is listening in on, the hardware is listening on COM3 and the software is listening on COM1 but the windows tablet for the device won't allow me to change the COM3 port to COM1 to get the software to read because none of the software scans beyond COM1 unlike under the crappy lappy with XP.

SO does anyone know of software that will run under Windows 10 on a tablet?

The problem programs that are recommended like TOAD and Scantool.nets OBD-II v1.13 for ElmScan (a) does not work, (b) does not shut downm it has to be killed in the processess in taskman (c) can't find the com port.

This BTW is software downloaded from the ELM hardware site, they don't seem to make software for thier hardware...

I would rather have some ideas on brain storming a way for the tablet to be used as its compact, weighs 20lbs less than the crappy lappy.

 

[andydiver]

Hi. Just got the same connect windows 10 tablet from Tesco, was on offer. I use Multiecuscan same as many here and it works great on the connect with a USB elm327. You can download a free version but a licenced copy is worth having, paid for itself over again already

 

[Ziggy122]

Hi. Just got the same connect windows 10 tablet from Tesco, was on offer. I use Multiecuscan same as many here and it works great on the connect with a USB elm327. You can download a free version but a licenced copy is worth having, paid for itself over again already

Not the issue the poster is saying
The software is working yes
But Windows has assigned a different Com port to what the software is defaulted to look for

You can change it under the setting on a PC setup
However on the laptop/notpad/tablet, i dont know if you can reassign com ports or change the software to look else where

There is a multi-ecu scan forum
Yani - the creater (on here as well but rarely tbh) may be able to help you out there!

Ziggy

 

[Mark03]

Yes, I tried assigning a different COM port, the problem is that under windows XP on an old laptop, the software will search for COM1 and COM3 automatically

However, the Windows connect Win10 tablet the software only looks for COM1 and then decides thats it, no other comport exists...

I will try the Multiecuscan software and see what happens.

Hopefully these other developers will catch up and update their software, I was considering going Arduino or Pi.