Just read about this new addition to an iPhone. It may be useful to some of you. If you buy it and use it, please let the rest of us know how well it works

Griffin Announces iPhone OBD-II Reader
Posted January 7th, 2011 12:26 pm by Chuck Cage
Filed under: Automotive, CES, Electronics, Griffin Tec

We’ve covered OBD-II readers before on Toolmonger, and it’s our experience that they generally fall into two categories: the inexpensive ones which offer a read of instant data only, and the expensive ones which show and record real-time data. It makes sense, as it takes a lot more computing power and design to handle the real-time data than it does to just show you the current readings. But what if you’ve already spent a few hundred bucks on a pocket computing device that has plenty of juice to drive such a display — like, say, an iPhone?

Griffin launched a “car monitoring sensor” this week at CES that plugs into your OBD-II data jack and connects to your iPhone via Bluetooth. Their app records and displays the data via the iPhone’s pretty high-res touch screen. Total cost: about $90.

 

Stan, we had a thread going on it a little while back. I'm not sure if it was the same brand but the app was free or nearly free and you had to buy a bluetooth deal that plugged into the OBD2 port.

 

Oops, must have missed that thread. The article mentioned that the connection is via Bluetooth, but that is all. No idea it this is the same as you were discussing or not.

 

I don't know either. You might search Ebay for bluetooth OBD2 connectors.

Try this.


http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trk...All-Categories