OBD Fusion Supports CarPlay

[TexasTruck]

Back in my PowerStroke days I had several analog Autometer gauges watching temperatures and boost levels. The A-Pillar gauge pod was cool and I had a couple built in on each side of the steering column too. Fast forward and today we have apps like OBD Fusion, FORScan Lite for our handheld devices that connect via Bluetooth to a OBD scanner and presents that vital data on a screen.

I primarily use OBD Fusion on my iPhone to keep track of various temperatures. I have multiple dash boards with dozens of gauges and it works. The problem is where to mount the device so it's not in the way, but is still visible, not wiggling/shaking on a mount, leaving suction cup rings on the windshield, you get the picture. Meanwhile, we have a large screen built into the dash sitting right there

Well, OBD Fusion recently added CarPlay support to their app! You simply connect the app to the OBD Bluetooth scanner (like OBDLink MX+), find the OBD Fusion app in CarPlay and open it. You can setup the PIDs you want to monitor in the app on the device just like you would for the dash boards.

That said, like crawling before walking or "green text" before GUIs, the output is text based. They don't have graphical gauges right now, but it's a first step.

There is another thread that I ran across where a member discovered the same. I linked it here: OBD Fusion now had CarPlay support!

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[TexasTruck]

I contacted OBD Fusion asking about graphical gauges. Here is their reply.

"Thanks for reaching out to us! Apple currently doesn't provide a way to display our graphical gauges in CarPlay, as the CarPlay interface is very limited on what can be displayed. If that changes, we will certainly look into adding gauges."

 

[DK4]

I came up with an idea combining a couple different phone mounts to get an almost perfect lower right hand side phone mount in my truck if you’d be interested in that info at all.

Since CarPlay became a thing, everyone usually just calls me a boomer when they see I have my phone mounted up and visible

Graphical gauges on the big screen would be awesome!

 

[nitrobass24]

Does OBDFusion have the Ford specific PIDs?

 

[TexasTruck]

It does, but you have to pay a small fee to add it.

Does OBDFusion have the Ford specific PIDs?

https://www.obdsoftware.net/software/obdfusion

It does, but you have to pay a small fee to add it. I think the enhanced diagnostics is $15 per vehicle.

 

[TexasTruck]

Well, the OBD Fusion CarPlay is a little bumpy. I've provided the OBD Fusion team with a few issues. Being in software development myself, I know they appreciate the feedback. They are working on several fixes now. I think the most pervasive is that you can't monitor enhanced diagnostic PIDs. When you add them to a page to monitor them they don't show anything. The name of the PID is present, but that's all. For now you can only monitor the generic or SAE PIDs.

 

[TexasTruck]

And they just updated the app to support enhanced PIDs in CarPlay (among some other CarPlay improvements).

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