Re: remote entry -key fob programming

"Bill Putney" <bptn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:5v3hnsF1giq9gU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
> > Why does it take a $10,000 scantool to interrogate the computer?
> > Car computers today could be fitted with an USB ****t and you
> > just plug in the laptop and run some software on it that interrogates
the
> > computer.  Or better yet as I've said before, put an ethernet ****t
> > on the car computer and put a webserver in it, and jack in your
> > laptop running a web browser and use that to interrogate the
> > computer.
>
> That's been available for years - I own a third party tool that plugs
> into the car's datalink connector and adapts to the USB ****t of a
> computer (typically a laptop) into which you load the tool's software
> (basically your computer and the software comprise the "tool").
>

Yes, I know about those tools but that isn't what I'm talking about.
The CPUs today used for embedded electronics like a vehicle car
computer have plenty of extra power and the entire software that is
in the tool could be easily stuck into the car computer - thus turning
your laptop into nothing more than a human interface device, and
alleviating
the need to buy the software and the adapter that goes from the
datalink connector to the USB ****t (which if you were to take it
apart you probably would find quite a lot of intelligence in the adapter)

Remember, the software on the computer needs to read lots of
different models of cars, so it's much larger than it would need to
be if included in the car computer.

The federal government standardized the OBD-II connector over
a decade ago, today there's much more common computer industry
standard interfaces - ie: USB, firewire, and ethernet - where the
controllers for these interfaces are much cheaper due to the fact
that they aren't single-sourced.  It's high time that the OBD-II
interface be retired and replaced with one of these so you can just
use an off-the-shelf $5 cable to plug your PC into the car computer.

Ted