UPDATE: there’s some new developments regarding car integration. Keep watching the main page for more news.

Goal Ability to view real-time car data, position and if possible images ‘Update: Also working on Car-Tracking system now.

HOW?
Interface to the car

• Using an OBD2 interface

Processing data in car

• Get CarPC with application and data connection (GPRS) that sends data to my home server

Analyze data

• Write script that analyzes the data and adds it to HomeSeer

Hardware
OBD2/WLAN interfaces

• PLX
• ElmCan
• OBDKey

Software
That reads, records, interpret the data received from the OBD2

• DashCommand by Palmer for the iPhone/iPod (€ 24)
• FuzzyCar for iPhone/iPod (€ FREE)
  • This app posts the data on the FuzzyLuke website. (nice!)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/

Next

• Which application? Have to decide if I’m going to buy Rev 2.0 (which can send logged data) or DashCommand (which is going to have a new version soon that also can send data via email). Don’t know which of these is better.
  • REV looks great, has a intuitive GUI, can send tracked data but it can only ‘record’ 2 or 3 parameters
  • DashCommand doesn’t look that good, doesn’t have data sending yet but there’s a big community, it allows a lot of customization and the new version is looks promising.
• Share data? Have to find a way to (automatically) post/email/ftp data collected (actually: graphs as I don’t want to bore people with a 1000-line CSV)
• HomeSeer integration is probably the most difficult part ;-) If an app sends an emails containing the trip data I could write a script that analyzes this data and grabs the most important info

Which data do I want to see?

• Current mileage
• Average fuel consumption
• Average miles / day
• Remaining fuel (so I can get a notification when the car runs out of fuel)

Next next next Car tracking using Xexun TK103 (or TK102). You need:

• Tracker TK103/TK102
• SIM card with data subscription
• Software to process the data send