{"id":370,"date":"2018-01-21T15:38:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/?p=370"},"modified":"2023-09-21T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T20:51:07","slug":"on-board-diagnostics-obd-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Telsa on Board Diagnostics OBD-II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lotus had a LCD screen\u00a0with BMS info. There was a lot of info on cell level about temperture and voltage level. The Tesla Model S doesn&#8217;t inform the driver with any information about the battery other than de SOC (state of charge). To get to this information you have to access the CAN-bus and read the CAN messages. To do so you need to\u00a0find\u00a0the\u00a0diagnostic connector which is behind the shelf just beneath the main screen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_373\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373\" class=\"size-large wp-image-373\" src=\"http:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153411-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Telsa diagnostic connector\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153411-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153411-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153411-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153411-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telsa diagnostic connector<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tesla uses a proprietary connector instead of the standard OBD-II connector. Most diagnostic interfaces come with the OBD-II connector so an adapter cable is needed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_372\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372\" class=\"size-large wp-image-372\" src=\"http:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153832-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Model S Adapter cable\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153832-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153832-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153832-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153832-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model S Adapter cable<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To see the CAN-bus info you need software that is capable of translating the Tesla CAN messages. You can use Scan My Tesla for Android or TM-Spy for Apple. Since I have an Android Phone I went for Scan My Tesla and bought a OBDLink MX OBD-II adapter and created cable to match the Tesla connector.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_375\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-375\" class=\"size-large wp-image-375\" src=\"http:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153336-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"OBDLink MX\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153336-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153336-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153336-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_20180121_153336-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OBDLink MX with cable<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lotus had a LCD screen\u00a0with BMS info. There was a lot of info on cell level about temperture and voltage level. The Tesla Model S doesn&#8217;t inform the driver with any information about the battery other than de SOC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/?p=370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evblog.wanjon.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}