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[veralum]

Can anyone recommend one that works well with Omegas? To work with an iPhone?

[Nick W]

Is your Omega new enough to be OBD compliant?


Most of them are not.


If yours is, a better question is which software works the best as the actual tool is the easy bit - having tried several, they all work!

[Andy H]

Does your iphone have Bluetooth?

I thought Apple decided not to support it

You can get WiFi OBD dongles but as pointed out by Nick W you need a decent App to do anything with it.

Scanmyopel works well on Android - don't know if they have bothered  to write an App for Apple 

[Jimbob]

I have the imaginatively titled 'car scanner' free iphone app, works with wifi EML327 dongles, few quid off ebay etc.

I have a better plug in laptop one too, but handy to keep in the car.

As stated, Bluetooth will not work with an iphone, you NEED a wifi version.

[STEMO]

If Bluetooth won't work with an iPhone, how does it connect to you car, your Apple Watch and, say, external speakers?

[TheBoy]

The iPhone apps are very fussy on those OBDII dongles, and tend not to work with many of them, esp the cheap chinese cloned ones.

Apple's BT adherence to the standard is, errr, suspect, but whether or not this is the cause I don't know. I suspect partially it is.

Android apps tend to be far less fussy.


Remember, UK spec cars are not technically ODBII compliant.  They are EOBD compliant.  The standards are very similar, but there are quirks.  For example, most 2.2 petrols can't be used with many non EU ODBII scanners.

2.0/2.5/3.0 are not even EOBD, so no hope with a generic OBDII scanner.  2.6/3.2 are generally OK on generic tools, for engine only.