USB support

[dipcore]

It's not an issue but it would be cool to have an option to use bluetooth or usb-serial. I saw your Steering-Wheel-Interface project, but it looks like you will not support it any more.

[theksmith]

no immediate plans for this myself, but maybe someone else will tackle the ehancement

[smellykid101]

I'd be interested in helping to add this feature, but I'm only a intermediate programmer. @theksmith care to give some guidance where to start? I was thinking to use some of your code from Steering-Wheel-Interface project. Any idea for problems I'd run into right away?

[theksmith]

sorry for the late reply!

the biggest issue is that the BT code is pretty tightly integrated. so in order to keep things clean we'd want to refactor a lot of my overall design and abstract out the hardware/protocol layer stuff and then have 2+ implementations of it (one for BT, one for USB, and maybe even one for BLE).

just hacking it to work with USB would be pretty quick. in fact it would probably be easier to take a sample USB serial project and copy in the ELM327, Tasker, and Android event/button stuff from here... if you just wanted to get something working with USB quickly.