Carman is also Alive! :) News, upcoming update
Carman, our fully open source project here at OpenBossa Labs, aims to give tablet users the chance of analyzing their Car’s OBDII protocol was on “hold” for a while with no new versions announced. The fact was that just like Canola, the whole INdT team was going over a lot of changes so the projects were hit by that.
Anyways we were not stopped, and Carman indeed received a lot of love, but it could have used a little bit more. The first thing was the obvious “closer” relationship with Canola. The new version is not integrated, but is indeed full EFL based and respects the same approach as Canola on GUI design. More important than the visual is the addition of several new features, one of my favorites is the Trip report. This little feature will enable you to record all your trips or telecommutes to analyze for example best route, with lower consumption, lower engine stress and give you the chance to compare 2 very similar routes (like I have 2 – 11km and 13km possibilities here, but one of them is really better even on consumption: 13km, just because the engine is less stressed the whole way)
Also we tried to give a real “renew” on the visual design, bringing a really outstanding, best-of-class graphics to Maemo, and I can guarantee, it’s going to be the most gorgeous application for Internet Tablet. If you do not believe me take a look in those images below : (these are the final Visual design being implemented) the goal is really to create a custom look, trying to give freedom for theme makers to adapt Carman for several Car models. This themes were crafted by Nando Sperb, a incredible designer working in carman Project.
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- You can see your friend, trace route using them as point? :) follow friend!
In the future, we still want to connect Carman and Canola, have both as opensource and this is the first step.
Wow, great work. I have been looking forward to this for some time (see http://www.linuxuk.org) and now it looks closer to reality.
Keep up the good work.
P.S. Any idea when we can expect to see the first release of this?
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 amJamie : August! :)
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 pmJamie : indeed it’s openstreet map the default :)
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pmNice work!
“In the future, we still want to connect Carman and Canola, have both as opensource and this is the first step.”
The second part of the sentence stroke me even more!
It would be really *great* to see Canola getting OSS.
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:35 pmCan Carman be used with motorcycles like GasGas? They have a diagnostic port but I can’t find info whether it’s ODBII or not.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:11 amWhere is development going on for this new version?
The latest branch in SVN on garage is over 3 months old. I would like to contribute but if development is behind closed doors its not going to be feasible is it.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:39 amI am interested of ODB-II data in business use. I would like to have technical contact email for development team?
June 24th, 2008 at 12:47 am[...] interface, full with animation, maps integration as well as trip reporting! Marcelo Oliveira has a post, explaining the details and showing off some of the cool new artwork! Though, not yet integrated [...]
June 24th, 2008 at 2:51 am[...] interface, full with animation, maps integration as well as trip reporting! Marcelo Oliveira has a post, explaining the details and showing off some of the cool new artwork! Though, not yet integrated [...]
June 24th, 2008 at 3:36 am[...] Some screenshots below. You can find more at Marcelo’s blog. [...]
June 24th, 2008 at 4:48 amIncredible..Really incredible!
Are there obdII/usb micro connectors out there? How do you connect it?
June 24th, 2008 at 6:08 amHi Ben, you have actually some Obd2-> bluetooth connectors so you plug on your car and the tablet + carman can use it :)
http://www.openbossa.indt.org/carman/faq.html
June 24th, 2008 at 7:12 amSearch “elm327 bluetooth” on ebay and see some bluetooth OBD-II adapters I have been considering. The single-device package seems the nicest to me.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:45 amreally interesting project, will it ever work in motorbikes (especifically Kawasaki) ?
June 24th, 2008 at 11:41 pmI don’t know at all if OBDII is used by any of the big jap makers….
Will this be compatible?:
http://tinyurl.com/5q2p9p
On the website (Carman FAQ) it states:
“Right now, Carman only supports ElmScan 5 Scan tool, though it can be easily extended to support others in the future.”
June 25th, 2008 at 12:54 amCan we use googlemaps? because on my city (and many places at world) we not have openstreetsmaps …
June 27th, 2008 at 5:17 amWhat a Great Project!
Congratulations Again!
Marcelo We Are Waiting For Next Month! Yes The August! :D
July 7th, 2008 at 1:26 pmHi
Just received my obd2 key, can’t wait for the next release.
Do you plan an update of carman to be 100 percent compatible with diablo before August ? I noticed connection problems.
You guys make the NIT better and better !!!
Thanks a lot
July 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pmFriend BTW please Don’t use only OpenStreetMaps For Map,My City Tehran Is Not Very Available There!
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July 18th, 2008 at 10:19 amGreat news on the update! Will the new version allow the user to access recorded data offline, i.e. while not connected to an OBD2 signal? That is the biggest drawback for me right now as it makes it difficult to perform offsite data analysis. (Or maybe there is a way to do it that I’m not aware of?…)
Anyway, thanks for creating another great app for a great platform.
-Sam
July 30th, 2008 at 10:38 amI am anxiously waiting for the update, since I am using 2008 Diablo on my N810, and haven’t been able to try Carman yet, due to the connection problems (https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2667&group_id=189&atid=780).
Hopefully this issue is fixed along with the new features!
Best Regards,
August 13th, 2008 at 3:20 amRaino
Sam : yes it will allow you to review the data :)
August 29th, 2008 at 4:52 amCarman looks to be a dead project – no new releases, no commits, no posts to developer discussion lists, incompatible with the latest Maemo release.
Occasional blog entries offering vague “maybes” are the sum total of the output for this project in 18 months.
Anyone out there looking at a fork? Something like this is worthwhile for the Nokia tablets and the original developers have given up.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:05 pmSimon, did you not see that Marcelo just posted a few days before you?
September 15th, 2008 at 7:19 pmAny update on availability for the next release, Marcelo? If you need a beta tester, I’m your man!
September 16th, 2008 at 3:00 pmTextrat – yes, that would be under the category “blog entries offering vagues maybes.”
Marcelo also emailed me to say that a new release would be available “in three weeks” – 22 days ago.
There’s still no release, commits or postings to developer and user discussion lists.
September 25th, 2008 at 7:00 pmSimon: I wrote here, I talked about in the summit :
We are delayed because of Canola, and people saw that we are uploading the packages to extras for 2 days.
CArman was ready to go, but launching it would break canola, because it depends on newer packages. So everyone needs to be updated. The problem was that the new Canola team failed in delivering the tested packages, delaying the whole thing.
That’s why I tried at least to post about the delays.
September 26th, 2008 at 10:55 amI think some people were following the link from Internet Tablet talk directly to this post and not looking at your updated posts on the home screen.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:19 am