Anyone know of some OBD-II freeware for Palm?

hans747 · Nov 10th, 2005, 02:33 PM

I've got an old PalmIII at home that I've been thinking about turning into a dedicated OBDII scanner. Is there any freeware available to accomplish this? All the software I've seen is more expensive than buying a straight-up OBD-II scanner.

captain_shrapnel · Nov 11th, 2005, 07:35 AM

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...anner+freeware
Like this? I don't know what a PP requires for OS, this software works on 95/98/ME.

http://www.pocketgear.com/software_d...&associateid=9
This seems to be what your looking for.

hans747 · Nov 11th, 2005, 09:29 PM

Thanks for those links. i dug around alittle more on tucows.com and found this site:
http://www.auterraweb.com/scantoolsoftware.html

Download it at the bottom of this page:
http://www.auterraweb.com/downloads.html

The DTC program is free, and it works on the old Palm pilots, too. You can pick up a PalmIII on ebay for under $20, and the OBD/serial cable is about another $20-ish on ebay. So for about $40 to $50 you can have a killer scan tool that does some live diagnostic stuff.

I'm onboard if I can find my wife's old palm pilot in the home office.