Live data: dashboards, recording and export

Where: Remote sessions › Diagnostics › Live dashboard (in the app, Vehicles › the vehicle › “Live dashboard”)

1. Preparing a dashboard

1. Press “New dashboard” and type the “Dashboard name” (for example, “Engine”).
2. Press “Add instrument”, choose the “Type” (Gauge, Number, Bar or Chart) and the “Signal” from the list: signals of this vehicle, OBD (cars and vans) or J1939 (trucks and machinery).
3. If you like, set “Minimum”, “Maximum” and the warnings “Warn below” and “Warn above”.
4. Choose the “Reading rate” (every 250 ms by default) and, if you like, “Share with the workshop”.

2. Watching live

1. In “Watch live”, choose the “Unit”, the “Dashboard” and the “Maximum duration” (1, 5, 10 or 30 minutes) and press “Start”.
2. You see “Waiting for the unit (up to 30 s)…” and then “Live”. Each value shows its age; “No new data” means it has not changed for more than 2 seconds.
3. Press “Stop” when you are done. Then you can “Save as a log”, “Export CSV” or “Print or PDF”.

3. For advanced users

• Up to 16 signals per dashboard and 20 dashboards. The rate goes from 100 to 2000 ms on the web; the app uses 250 ms.
• On UDS control units that support it, the unit can request periodic data (periodic identifiers, shown as “pDID” followed by their number): the control unit sends them by itself and the unit keeps the latest value every 250 ms.
• The CSV has the columns Time (s), Signal, Value and Unit.

Tip: The live dashboard only reads: it changes nothing in the vehicle.

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