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****Purpose****

This program is an attempt at reading the relevant data from the OBDII port of your car.
According to the information you can find on the internet, from 1996 up until today, all car manufacturers are required to export the data the car uses to work into this port, thus setting the rules of the relative protocol.

This program bases its useage on the possibilities provided by the ELM chip and as a result can work with every device implementing the aforementioned chip.
For the program's development up until now, the following releative elm devices are used:

http://www.obdspy.gr/elm327/bt_elm.php
http://www.obdpros.com/product_info.php?products_id=133 

The first one connects via bluetooth and the second one  via USB, utilizing an USB-serial driver.

This program has been tested on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 6 Professional.
It can work however with another target compilation to export binaries for other mobile platforms.
PocketPC used is an  HTC and has bluetooth serial port profile.

*************Third Software maker programs used****************

http://www.sqlite.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlite-dotnet2/files/
Lots of ideas got by the c-code of gpl obdpros.exe scr


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What it covers:

~ Reading of flash data and Sums of the electronic device
~ Reading calculation sums from combinations of data
~ Writing of the biggest sums
~ Intervention in the table of obd protocol
~ The power of grouping values
~ Console manual communication via elm capabilities