I am upgrading Dogger, my P38 motorhome. After 50,000 miles travelling it needs some love, and one thing I want is better diagnostics for when I travel. So therefore I am building one.
This will be totally open source (so you can mess with the code). I will load all the code to my Git for you all.
This is a post to test the enthusiasm of the P38 (and D2) community, if you want it.
I have access to nearly all modules. I don’t need most of them because Dogger has most of it removed, however the wife has a mint original 4.6 2001 so I will add everything I have. I also have Disco TD5 stuff so I could add that.
Dogger has an M57 306D1 DDE4. I will also add 306D2 DDE5 code into it.
That way this little beast will cover lots of people’s shitboxes, pretty off-road stuff and pavement princesses.
My requirements
- Fast. Turn it on, get diagnostics ASAP. Plug it in, unplug it, molest the next door’s cat with it, it will just work. I make this stuff for Dakar cars; we have zero patience for slow diag stuff.
- Easy to use. No waiting for it to load stuff, no looking at legal waffle, no accepting anything, just straight at it.
- Cheap, so you can abuse it and get another.
- Added features like CAN and sniffer wires to hack other stuff.
So there are two screen options: the Waveshare 3″ touchscreen or the bigger Tab5.
They are both very capable. The smaller one will easily kill the job; the bigger Tab5 is overkill.
I have already ordered a board for the smaller Waveshare screen.
This will only ever be a kit, so you had better get your mum a quick course in basic wiring. Nothing hard, just a few wires to solder.
The small screen is around £20 and the big one £70. The interface boards will cost me about £50, and I will sell them out at cost plus postage.
Leave comments here if you’re interested. That way I will put extra effort into getting it all working. Any ideas, however stupid, are welcome. Even if it’s a dipshit idea, you never know, I like a good laugh.
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