OBD Now Lite is a free app for vehicle diagnostics to OBDII/EOBD standards
OBD Now Lite, in conjunction with an ELM327 chipped scan tool (Bluetooth or Wi-Fi), transforms your Android phone or tablet into an OBDII diagnostic tool.
OBD Now Lite is designed to report on the OBDII Services of the OBDII specification in a minimal amount of time.
OBD Now Lite’s simple menu driven structure guides the user through the OBDII services. Within a minute or two of connecting with OBD Now Lite, an operator can quickly determine if a vehicle is running normally or has faults that require further investigation.
OBD Now Lite supports the following OBDII services as specified by SAE J1979 and ISO 15031-5.
• 01 – Current Power train Diagnostic Data.
• 03 – Emission-Related Diagnostic Trouble Codes.
• 04 – Clear/Reset Emission-Related Diagnostic Information.
• 07 – Emission-related Diagnostic Trouble Codes detected during the last drive cycle.
• 09 – Vehicle Information.
• 0A – Permanent Diagnostic Trouble Codes
Supports the following features:
• Real-time digital display of up to 162 Pids of power train data.
• Automatically supports all vehicle protocols including J1850 PWM, J1850 VPW, ISO 9141, ISO 14230, and ISO 15765 (CAN).
• Display of Vehicle readiness - Continuous and non-continuous monitoring and monitor status of MIL lamp and detected Diagnostics Trouble Codes.
• Display of stored, pending and permanent Diagnostic Trouble Codes.
• Clearing/Resetting engine MIL light.
• Display of vehicle information including VIN number.
• Logging of diagnostic data
• Displays Pid data in either Metric or Imperial units
• Pid Sensor information can be individually selected or deselected.
• Display of vehicle’s OBD compliance, protocol and scan tool interface and version.
• Sensors display - current, minimum, maximum and average values in two formats.
• Connection support for either Bluetooth or Wi-Fi scan tools.
• Summary display of vehicle’s supported services.
• Connection window displays real-time hexadecimal data for those conversant with SAE J1979 or ISO 15031-5.
• Incremental adjustment of Elm 327 timeout value to maximize sensor response speed.
• Fully incorporated help manual of our easy to read OBD Now Lite User Guide.
OBD Now Lite contains a comprehensive 60+ page User Guide. It can also be viewed from the following link https://www.glmsoftware.com/documentation/OBDNowUserGuide.pdf.
Supported scan tools:
We recommend any of the following scan tools OBDLink Bluetooth MX and MX+ or LX, OBDLink MX Wi-Fi, OBDPros Bluetooth/Wi-Fi, OBDKey Bluetooth/Wi-Fi, Kiwi 3, Kiwi 2 or any genuine ELM327 chipped scan tool, version 1.3a and above. Please see our User Guide for a detailed discussion re problems associated with using cheap "Clone" scan tools.