How to make your PLX SM-AFR wideband unit work with Evoscan!

lathiat

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I have completed the first Beta of my program which converts the PLX iMFD protocol, to the AEM UEGO protocol, it is very rough but it works and allows you to log the PLX wideband with Evoscan.

Download: http://lathiat.net/files/PLXAEMConvertor.exe

You need to use VSPE to create some virtual serial ports, you can find it here:
http://www.eterlogic.com/Products.VSPE.html

Setup a basic com port "pair" in VSPE, then start the application (.NET 4.0 required) -- select the com port with your PLX wideband attached and then one half of the virtual com port pair you created in VSPE.

Then in evoscan set the wideband to "AEM", then select the other half of the virtual com port pair as the port. Then don't forget to enable the WDB item.

To connect the PLX SM-AFR to your computer, you can use the iMFD USB cable here:
http://www.plxdevices.com/datalogger.html

Or you can do what I did.. solder a couple of RCA jacks to some jumper wires, and poke those pins onto a FTDI board like this:
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9873
Then use a standard 2xRCA => 3.5mm stereo headphone socket cable to connect them. Only RX is required for this program.


I tested it tonight and it worked great, however, I have not yet tested to see how much of a delay it introduces. I don't believe it is any/much but I haven't checked.

Here's a screenshot, forgot to take one while I was in the car / it was reading the values:
PLXAEMConvertor.png


I will polish this up into a better application but I thought I'd release this early version so some folks can at least test it / use it if they so desire.


An obvious alternative is to use the analogue output via the ECU, however, I wanted to use that output to log Boost and right now we only know of 1 usable output (Legnum VR-4 7202 ECU).
 

kc427

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Great!! Is it the latest software from the link above?
 

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very old post above, more than 5 years, he's still using windows XP in that screenshot... I'll see if I can dig up what I figured out with my MTX-L tonight and you can try it out.
 

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Sorry no I never did it like this, ended up just connecting the analog signal wire on mine directly to the ecu and reading it that way.
 

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I was thinking similar thing before. PLX has published their protocol of the data, and I guess Innovate Motorsport also, so maybe we can do something to convert PLX data to Innovate Motorsport data
 
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