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3) OBD Scanner to Linux

Vivaan Bahl edited this page Feb 2, 2019 · 3 revisions

This page documents the adventure for hooking up our OBD-II scanner to Linux.


Things started out well. When plugging the link into Windows, the device opened up a COM port, which meant that if I plug it into a Linux box, it may make a device driver link.


Success! Plugging in the scanner showed up as a /dev/ttyUSB0 device driver in the Ubuntu installation on the Roboclub computers. Now, we need to reverse-engineer the data stream coming out of the scanner

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