Hello again Club Polo!

Quite a while ago I started a thread asking about what people would want to be present in a vehicle diagnostic on-board display (found here).

Last time a lot of people were kind enough to give their opinoins on what it should contain, and I was hoping to ask how well what I have created (as A-level coursework) matches with these ideas.

It would be great if anyone could leave a quick comment about whether my software seems:

• Customisable
• Capable of enough functions
• Intuitive
• Anything else!

Here is some information about the software:

• Has a virtual dashboard- can display real-time data about the running of the vehicle- can read sensors from Engine RPM to Intake Manifold Absolute Pressure. The system is also customisable, so you can create your own layouts ans draw on your own dials however you want them arranged.

• Reads and decodes error codes. Reads error codes from the ECU using an ELM327. Then, uses a built-in database to diagnose the meaning of the error code, and also the exact location on the car (an addition to the data by me, would be more useful if this was a big project. I have only been able to do a few for my car).

• Graphing data. My software can also read sensors, and record the data over time. This is useful for viewing and comparing data streams. Can compare 4 PID sensors at once:

• Record 0-60 and 1/4 mile times, and store the records in a leaderboard file (which can be read from the software later). The data shown is just placeholder records.

• The software colours can also be customised to taste, hence the change in colours in some of the images above.

I can give any details you would like to know. Thanks for your time!

Edited 24 April, 201610 yr by fell4Polo

I take it this is for an EPQ? But I like it! I love the data displayed, it's all very helpful. However I'd say it might be nice to include some default colour schemes that complement each other as I think the current colours are really quite harsh and some of them are pretty hard to read over each other. If you just search for 'colour palette' on Google there should be a couple of links to palettes of colours that work well together!

 

What's it running on? I'd love to use this! :)

On 4/28/2016 at 08:11, GeorgeStreten said:

I take it this is for an EPQ? But I like it! I love the data displayed, it's all very helpful. However I'd say it might be nice to include some default colour schemes that complement each other as I think the current colours are really quite harsh and some of them are pretty hard to read over each other. If you just search for 'colour palette' on Google there should be a couple of links to palettes of colours that work well together!

 

What's it running on? I'd love to use this! :)

Thanks for your reply so soon after I posted this thread- and sorry it took me so long to notice it! The project is the coursework for A level Computing (I have done an EPQ too, but on machine learning). I will have a look at including some better colours, but there are only a few simple ones provided in the java library I was using- so now the software works I could probably define my own ones for the user to change too.

 

At the moment it runs on my laptop, and connects to the ELM327 via wifi, but I made it so that hopefully at some point it would run on anything with Java installed. I also hoped to eventually install it on a Raspberry PI, and actually mount it on a screen in my car...but it probably wouldn't be very practical!