I’ve found a new gadget that I’m genuinely excited about. The Pill from Shelly is a tiny little USB powered thing that you can plug sensors into and advertise the values over BLE A little bit of time travel I have a Stupid Car and I’ve always had trouble with temperatures under the bonnet. Over the years I’ve tried to interface to DS18B20 sensors in various ways. It started with Raspberry Pi(s) which required a lot of effort not to kill with car voltages and shutdown.
It’s been a little quiet lately so I thought I better post an update. Since the last post there have been over 350 updates made to the software. A lot have focussed on reliability and robustness of the connection, but here are a few of my favourite ‘user facing’ changes. Idle Advance Doctor I don’t have an idle advance control valve on my engine for reasons. This feature tunes the idle advance bins to get a steadier idle.
This is a walkthrough of what VETuner looks like, and what you can do with it. Initial Connection VETuner uses the WebSerial/WebUSB interfaces supported by the Chrome family of browsers. Typically WebSerial is used on laptops, WebUSB on phones and tablets. Generally it tries its best to find your ECU. For security reasons, you have to select the right device the first time you try to connect, but it will automatically connect from that point onwards.
VETuner now has a proper home at vetuner.co.uk. If you’ve been following along while I poked at parsers, dashboards, serial comms and all the other fun bits, this is the bit where it turns from “odd side project” into “real thing with an actual domain”. It may even result in “actual users” and “actual users who give me money”! This was driven by me getting fed up with Android development for MSDroid.
In the song Missionary Man, Annie Lennox sings Well, I was born an original sinner I was born from original sin And if I had a dollar bill for all the things I've done There'd be a mountain of money piled up to my chin, hey! How much money is that? According to Celebheights.com, she is 172.7cm tall. According to Wikipedia a dollar bill (I’ll assume she meant US dollars) is 0.