OBD2 - ELM327 bluetooth simulator

Question

I am developing Android application for connecting to ELM327 for car unit through Bluetooth. Is there any simulator, to simulate ELM327 on Windows 7 through Bluetooth? So I can test my application without a car.

Solution 1

I found one working after all. It is called Obdsim. It can be run on Windows with bluetooth too.
Just in your bluetooth set incoming bluetooth on some port for example COM4 then start simulator from your command line:
obdsim.exe -g gui_fltk -w COM4

It is nice working simulator with lots of options.

Solution 2

If you are serious about developing such an application, use an OBD2 hardware simulator where you can plug your OBD2 bluetooth adapter in, such as the DIAMEX OBD2 simulator. It's a real time-saver and worth every €.

Comments

[amrit_neo]

Can you tell me how to send the commands. As I have installed OBDsim, but I am wondering how can I send commands.

[Paulo Pedroso]

It seems -w is not a valid option for OSX. Still stuck with no simulator at all. Almost giving up and taking my laptop to the car.

[UVM]

@Amsik, I am getting an error saying "Error creating virtual port" when issued the above command in Windows 7

[DrMickeyLauer]

That said, if you want to get away cheaper, I wrote an app called 'OBD2 Expert' exactly for that purpose. Next to being an OBD2 ScanTool, it allows you to take a capture file (of a vehicle you have inspected before) and simulate an OBD2 BTLE dongle with an iOS device. If you're interested in that, check out a video @ facebook.com/obd2expert

[Henrikki]

This Obdsim needs a lot of research for other stuff to get work like virtual COM ports and also in windows 7 bluetooth and virtual port are especially made impossible to use

[Ride Sun]

The link above does not work, but... I used this one and was very suprised how well the app works developing OBDII apps. play.google.com/store/apps/…