ABRP and OBD2 question

I have found the same result and tried the same solutions until I discovered that if another app is using the OBD, ABRP cannot find it. Once I told Bluetooth to forget car scanner, ABRP found the OBD dongle and reconnected when I started the car.

John Austin said:

I have found the same result and tried the same solutions until I discovered that if another app is using the OBD, ABRP cannot find it. Once I told Bluetooth to forget car scanner, ABRP found the OBD dongle and reconnected when I started the car.

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Thanks. I did try that, but I'll try it again.

Tried to have the iphone "forget" it, then scanned for it. Didn't help, alas. And Car Scanner could only find it after I had the OBDLink app reconnect.

I guess I won't worry about realtime SOC from ABRP for now.

jmwk said:

Tried to have the iphone "forget" it, then scanned for it. Didn't help, alas. And Car Scanner could only find it after I had the OBDLink app reconnect.

I guess I won't worry about realtime SOC from ABRP for now.

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I have android so it could be different (and I have a different obd dongle), but I had the same problem with ABRP not finding the dongle even though Car Scanner did. More clearly, what I did:

• either force stop Car Scanner and ABRP or uninstall them and any other app using the dongle
• make sure Bluetooth sees the dongle
• open ABRP (or reinstall it)
• at this point Car Scanner doesn't functionally exist
• search for OBD dongle on ABRP...cross your fingers and hope your dongle is found in less that 3 tries.

With no other app trying to use the dongle I was finally able to get ABRP to find and and not lose it. ABRP then showed the SOC which was the main reason I was using Car Scanner.

John Austin said:

I have android so it could be different (and I have a different obd dongle), but I had the same problem with ABRP not finding the dongle even though Car Scanner did. More clearly, what I did:

• either force stop Car Scanner and ABRP or uninstall them and any other app using the dongle
• make sure Bluetooth sees the dongle
• open ABRP (or reinstall it)
• at this point Car Scanner doesn't functionally exist
• search for OBD dongle on ABRP...cross your fingers and hope your dongle is found in less that 3 tries.

With no other app trying to use the dongle I was finally able to get ABRP to find and and not lose it. ABRP then showed the SOC which was the main reason I was using Car Scanner.

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Nope. Still no luck. Really annoying.

So just using ABRP for pre-planning, not real-time, on this road trip.

I had a legacy Bluetooth adapter which doesn't work as it needs the newer low energy version (4?).
Anyway, I bought one from Amazon that didn't work, returned it and bought this BLE one, works great with ABRP and Car Scanner. I think I have had to re-pair it once or twice. I personally found it well worth the $30 for the extra functionality.

I found what I was missing (doh!): Settings > Privacy & Security > Bluetooth then toggled ABRP on.

I don't think I've ever had to do that for any other app that uses bluetooth. Now I get to play with it on my way home Sunday.

One thing I really like about ABRP with OBDLink is that my wife and I can share access using a single ABRP login, so when she's driving the AA recognizes the current planned route on her phone, even if I used the app on my phone to create the plan (or Chrome on my MacBook, for that matter). I can change the plan on my phone while she's driving, her phone automatically see the updates and they're reflected by ABRP running in Android Auto on the car's screen.

Until the AA connection is lost, which has happened twice in 3 months, but that's a different problem.