Did you recieve any data? That comm port program should have grabbed the chatter packets... The comm port check will only check the serial connection on the laptop or whatever your using. I have a feeling your cable is bad or something is wrong.

 

Your gonna have to speak english, lol.

I dunno how to tell if it recieved data It said comm port is avaliable. That was after setting it to 8192 baud.

 

I explained what you needed to do in the post dale. After setting the settings I described. Press the RX button.

 

I got 4 pics. Would that coding be listed on different lines?

If you want the pics, clean out your email, and PM it to me.

 

done.

 

Its definatley my end Dale. I have a feeling im forgetting to initialize something is this serial communications class. Im not using MSComm32 anymore. I think I need to read up on it a bit more.

 

pictures showed what you needed?

you got my email now also if you need me to test something.

BTW, check got mailed today also.

 

Alrighty, yep, told me exactly what I needed to know, I have to read up on the new serial communications class or switch back over to mscomm32. I'll let you know when I recieve the check.

 

Alright, I'll cut and paste into the *right* thread

I don't have a V6, but if you need help with debugging the code itself shoot me a PM. Done enough VB programming (starting with V3) in my time to at least be able to help that much, if you have patience. For your post, I work about as much as you, with irregular hours (gotta love NYCT), so if you get something you can't figure out and can wait, I'll take a look.

Also, if you're interested, I'm working on a PocketPC ALDL program (Using VB.Net). If we can get together on a common log file format, we can come up with something like VEMaster that can use input from either of our apps... or at least a CSV file exporter that works with both. One less format floating around that's only used by one application.

http://pocketdl.goumba.net/

 

Did some reading, a little tip:

if input = chr(240) & chr(forgot) & chr(forgot) ' this is F0 55 BB in the form the ECM is sending and recieving

VB lets you use Hex. Will make thing a lot easier instead of converting all of the time:

If input = Chr(&HF0) & Chr(&H55) & Chr(&HBB) ' this is F0 55 BB in the form the ECM is sending and recieving

Also:

Dim value1 as Integer = &HF0, yadda yadda

 

I also have a 1990 3.1.... has there been any break-throughs on reading the ALDL information yet?

Everytime I try to use a program with my cable, I always just get invalid header/packet...

I bought the cable off of http://www.aldlcable.com/

it uses the 160 baud, and 8192 baud connections on the ALDL... it doesn't have one going to GROUND... isn't that weird? it does have an external 12 power connection, if that matters...

I'd be happy to test anything anyone's got... I just spend $45 on this damn cable, and I had no idea the 1990 ECM wasn't supported...

arg!!!

so many other cars are perfectly supported...

it makes me wonder how a scantool can just hook into ANY car and work perfectly....

 

Easy. They get the specifications of the data streams directly from GM. Sucks to be the rest of us


On another note, why do I have this sneaking suspicion that with the move to VB.NET this application is going to be totally useless on the average 486-early pentium laptop most people use for datalogging

 

just so you guys know... I've gotten this all to work as of this morning... using the TunerPro RT software... I posted all the info in the other thread...

I was hoping someone could help me with my datalog, and tell me why my car was pinging to hell...

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...68#post2283168

 

Even worse, its not all that hard to port between the two. Maybe an OCX control needed somewhere and a little recoding and a program, once completed, could theoretically be back ported. However, MS is killing VB6 and any support, meaning anything VB6 does not yet support but could with help from MS isn't likely to happen.

There's always *nix for those old laptops. I have half of an ALDL program running on my laptop running BSD (I'll finish eventually).