05-04-2018, 10:40 PM | #1 |
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BM3 System Overview
I mentioned in my post about my experience with BM3 Stage 1 91 AKI OTS tune, that I would make another post about how the BM3 ecosystem works, because this wasn't clear to me before I bought my license, and I thought it might help others who are 'on the fence'.
I believe MHD may have a similar system, but can't comment with any first hand information. OK, so with that said, there are three major parts to the system:
This is the main user interface that you use to interact with the system. Even if you have the Android / iOS app, it's basically just a web-page that makes use of some less well known features of web-pages to look for the OBD Agent over the local network.OBD Agent This is a separate piece of software that handles the communications between the Web Based Client UI, the various vehicle ECUs using an E-Net cable, in much the same way that E-Sys does, and the Cloud Service.Cloud Service The cloud services handles licensing (activating your vehicle in the ecosystem), authentication (when you log into the Web Based Client UI), and perhaps most importantly, manages the tuning ecosystem.I'm sure I've missed a lot of things, glossed over others, and got some things wrong, but this would have been helpful to me a few days / weeks ago when I was choosing a tune, so hopefully this will be useful to others.
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05-23-2018, 12:23 AM | #2 |
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thanks for this post, and for referring me over here from the burble post. Definitely helpful. I have an older Raspberry Pi and an enet cable lying around and may want to give that a rip as well.
Can you answer the question about removing the cold start? Basically, if I use an OTS stage 2 tune, can I independently remove the ridiculously loud first 30 seconds? That's almost worth the price of admission for me, but the added HP (via boost?) is super tempting as well. Ultimately I'd love to have something that I can revert to that just works, but it would be fun to dink around and see what playing with the different variables can do. Where are you in the bay area? I'm in San Rafael. |
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I was trying to think about this myself. As I understand it the obd agent, whether on the Raspberry Pi or a laptop, has the ability to log offline to its own storage, but it will always try and upload as soon as it gets an internet connection. I can't see a use case for the OBD Agent Device, because the only way you'd connect to it is over WiFi, and there is almost no use case (that I can think of) where the WiFi you used to connect to it didn't also have internet connectivity. If you connect at home, it will use your home internet, if you connect with your phone as a WiFi hotspot, you'll use your phone's internet. With a laptop, things are different because the web browser can communicate with the OBD Agent because they're both on the laptop, even if the laptop has no WiFi internet connection. I guess you did the latter approach, and as soon as you got home and checked online, the OBD Agent also checked online and uploaded the files.
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I just flashed the latest V5.3 map and I think the start up and burble intensity is good to go for me as is. The V5-5.2 was crazy war zone....... |
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Totally agree with you about the burbles. I like them as is now. I'm still struggling with timing pull though - see my other threads for details about that!
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