How do you obtain OBD-II data from simple USB connection?
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#62How do you obtain OBD-II data from simple USB connection?
You don't, they list a Bluetooth-OBD-adapter as a component?
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#63Interesting but there might be a major gotcha. I see on the demo page that they are using Google Maps, however the free version of Google Maps cannot be used for assets tracking as per their terms of service. You'd need a Premier subscription starting at 10,000 per year to track 100 vehicles. Then it's around 24 USD per extra vehicle. You can use Open Street Map to avoid that (but then forget about Street View and th…
Just FYI that's not the current pricing: it's $6 per asset, with a minimum of 1667 tracked assets ($10000 / $6).
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#64In South Africa, many insurance companies won't insure you unless you have a tracker. There's an entire industry waiting to be "disrupted":
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#65I am not sure why everyone feels like they need to do a comparison with a pre-existing product. How about "Find your Car"
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#66No TLS anywhere on the site, manually forcing it returns a cert for sni.dreamhost.com.... have you considered (1) ditching dreamhost and (2) getting basic security? This looks really cool but lack of security in handling my location data makes me really nervous to send it all off to you. If this could be self hosted, on the other hand...
You can get almost the same thing self hosted with a tiny amount of work
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#67No TLS anywhere on the site, manually forcing it returns a cert for sni.dreamhost.com.... have you considered (1) ditching dreamhost and (2) getting basic security? This looks really cool but lack of security in handling my location data makes me really nervous to send it all off to you. If this could be self hosted, on the other hand...
You can get almost the same thing self hosted with a tiny amount of work http://ryancompton.net/2015/02/28/mpg/
That's pretty cool. Looks like you're using the Torque app[0], which doesn't seem to do any real-time uploading. Not the end of the world, but would be kinda nice.
[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq...
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#68I own a wifi-based OBDII adapter, but two things concern me about it that likely apply here as well. 1) It's always on, as the port is always powered, to my knowledge. I usually only drive on the weekends. Should I be unplugging it after each drive? 2) Security. The wifi adapter presents an open wireless network; I assume security on these bluetooth modules is also similarly lacking. What can an attacker do given the…
I think the other poster has spoken to #2 pretty well, but as for #1, I've had a USB OBDII dongle plugged into my car continuously for the last two years without issue. I imagine the wifi chip causes yours to draw a bit more power than mine, though I previously had a Bluetooth module plugged in and it didn't present any issue either. I think it's likely fine.
It depends on the module and the car. Some cars power the ODBII port all the time. Some dongles are smart enough to stop drawing power. I had cheap Bluetooth dongle that drained battery a couple of times when left plugged in for week. Better one doesn't cause any problems.
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#69Something about android and an obd device working together terrifies me. Last thing I want a phone which has exploits galore being able to turn off my engine as I drive.
Frankly any obd device just freaks the crap out of me
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#70Do you mind sharing the Tech stack behind this .. does Android app is uploading data every second and how you are ingesting all this data in realtime .. which Database are you using?