Monitor your car using your phone and ElmScan OBD-II reader

January 24, 2010 | By Surur

By law many cars now have a standard interface to access the engine management system. Unfortunately its still not that easy to actually get to the data.

The video above shows the ElmScan 5 Bluetooth wireless scan tool, which interfaces over Bluetooth with your smartphone and is said to have a range of up to 300 feet.

It supports all OBD-II protocols, features automatic protocol detection and interfaces with standard OBD software such as OBDKey for Windows Mobile.

Read more about the hardware at Scantools.com here.

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Cool idea, but the video shows that the software is slow and unimpressive. I want a real-time output like the hardwired units have. Then I can switch from my online radio feed on my phone right over to engine information on the fly. Man that'd be awesome.

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