RomRaider

Bump!

Last week I've started my own online-tuning firmware/software testing.
Tests are successfully passed. I have a first-on-car-test video, but in Russian.
But I've created the subtitles in English right now. Just ensure they are enabled before watching.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/Wa_LNdU3NlY

Some specs:
Any gasoline CAN ECUs are supported. Diesels are not investigated due to lack of these cars in Russia.
The only limitation is a RAM hole size.
Up to 16 online maps supported, user-chosen from defined in ROM. All the changes are kept till ECU reset, battery removal or online tables list is changed.
No hard-mods are needed. Only firmware patch and online tuning sortware.
Now, I'm using RomRaider XML definition format, but I'm planning to update it with some new fields.

All software is written from scratch, if there will be a lot of interested people, we can go Open-Source. I'm planning to croudfund some money a bit later and, in case of goal reach, I will release the auto-patcher for ROMs and upload all the sources under GPL license to GitHub or something similar with unlimited free access. There are such cool features as multi-threaded ECU/TCU logging and tracing engine, MVC-style GUI and ELM327-based (including bluetooth devices) SSM communication support (in addition to Serial and J2534). All these things may be quite useful for RomRaider developers.

The project is still in progress, I will add some new videos with map tracing, logging and online tuning runs simultaneously, a bit later. But now, I'm going on vacation till July, 2015.

Feel free to contact me here or dilatovsky[at]gmail.com.

Thanks.

That is Super. let me know if you want testing car. I recommend importing it into RomRaider. thats an awesome feature.

The RomRaider was started a long time ago... It's code was not initially designed for table data dynamic loading and changing. The communication engine is also hard to update.
So, I prefer to write own Communication Library and Table View / Edit forms from scratch. It tooks less time, than I estimated for updating/rewriting RomRaider.
The whole software is divided into modules, SSM communication engine module is already tested on Android tablet (Serial only, ELM327 will be tested soon, J2534 is not available for mobile devices now). That will be quite useful for future mobile apps development.

The Beta version of Realtime Tuning software is planned to be released in October, 2015.
Software commertial status, as I said before, will depend on croudfund campaign successfulness.

The croudfund campaign will be started soon after my vacation ends. I'll let the community know.
I'm not planning to raise millions of $, just want my spent time (about a half of year) to be paid.
And, in case of croudfunding goal is reached, future development will be under GPL.
Of course, the development will not be ended after first release. There are many features already planned. There will be more features to plan with help of this community.

Thanks.

How did I miss this? That's fantastic news, I'll happily contribute!

I've split the post out into its own thread.

Realy fantasic work !!

What is the difference beween the diesel and the patrol ECU ?
"Just" the CAN-handler ?

So, if some investigate into the CAN-handler of the diesel, you can add them to the functionality ?

Jochen

I've not disassembled Diesel ROMS yet. And my signature-based subroutine patcher didn't recognize any known areas.
Now, two types of signatures are defined: Gasoline Legacy and Gasoline Impreza/Forester. Signatured subroutines are slightly different between those two types, but having the same functionality.
I think, it's not a problem to define diesel signatures. But not right now.

The plan is to make current version of automated gasoline ROMs patcher and all related software to work perfectly.
The PC software is not ECU dependent, so, to make Diesel ROMs work, I have just to investigate some ROMs and update the patcher later.
And, yes, I will need the community help for testing, as there are very few Subarus with diesel engines across the Russia. Nobody in my neighbouhood have one of them.

I will gladly donate as well, I want the capability to real time tune my own car without having to pay out $3k to go with the Cobb solution!

great work mate.

Amazing work!!!!

Awesome! Super exciting I am staying tuned for more info!

Sometimes I hate being on a 16bit ECU lol.. even more so, now.. Live tuning would make me giddy.

DimeSPb - can you contact me? Email link below, would like to chat about this further. Are you on facebook?

OMG how did I just find this now

Whatever became of this? Was there any further work other than this done?