Communicating with an ECU

[Erik Petersen]

Have you considered Linux as a client target? You could use a 386 to serve
as the client and communicate directly to the serial port without having to
worry about licensing issues.

my $.02

-erik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-diy_efi at diy-efi.org [mailto:owner-diy_efi at diy-efi.org]On
> Behalf Of Brian Warburton
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 10:28 AM
> To: DIY-EFI
> Subject: Communicating with an ECU
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I supply aftermarket ECUs for road and race cars. The ECUs are set up and
> calibrated over the serial (Rs232) link of a PC using a specially written
> calibration program running under Windows.
>
> We support a lot of racers who often have problems on practice and race
> days and I'd like to be able to help them. To help them I would need to
> link my computer to theirs over a phone line and get the calibration
> program on my machine to talk to the ECU hanging on theirs. Getting the
> cal-program to talk to the modem at my end is relatively easy,
> but I need a
> utility that will effectively internally connect the modem and the serial
> port on the target machine. That way, I can communicate with the ECU
> hanging on the serial port of the remote machine by running the
> calibration
> program on our machine linked by modem to the modem and ECU on the other
> machine. Does anyone know any way of getting W-95 or 98 to achieve this or
> failing that, can anyone recommend a good Windows programming book ?
>
> Thanks, Brian
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