ELM323
AT Commands (continued)
response bytes that were received from the vehicle.
There will be no added space characters, and no
trailing carriage returns or linefeed characters inserted
between messages. This provides a very compact
format for data transfer.
Note that the length byte only represents the total
number of data bytes following, and does not include
itself. Also, if there was a data (checksum) error, this
length byte will have its most significant bit set, making
it appear that the length is greater than 128. If you
ignore the most significant bit (or subtract 128 from the
value), the other 7 bits will still provide a valid byte
count for the remainder of the message.
When the vehicle does not provide a response to
a query (a ‘NO DATA’ condition), the response has no
data bytes, but still sends a length byte with value ‘0’.
SH xx yy zz
[ Set the Header to xx yy zz ]
SI
[ perform a Slow bus Init ]
Issuing this command forces the ELM323 to
perform a slow (5 baud) bus initialization sequence,
regardless of the present state of the bus. Note that
the bus does not have to be manually initialized with
this command. If it is not active when a command is
issued to the vehicle, the ELM323 will automatically try
a slow initialization, and if that is not successful, will
then attempt a fast initialization.
SR hh
[ Set the Receive address to hh ]
Depending on the application, users may wish to
manually set the address for which the ELM323 will
display responses. Issuing this command will turn off
the AR mode, and force the IC to only accept
responses from the vehicle that are addressed to hh,
ignoring all others.
ST hh
[ Set Timeout to hh ]
This command allows the user to control the
values that are sent as the three initial (header) bytes
in each message. The value of hex digits xx will be
used for the first or priority/type byte, yy will be used
for the second or target byte, and zz will be used for
the third or source byte. These values will remain in
effect until set again, or until restored to the default
values with the AT D, or AT Z commands.
For ISO9141 vehicles, the default header values
are 68 6A F1, while for ISO14230 (KWP2000), they
are Cn 33 F1, where n represents the number of data
bytes in the message. Note that when assigning
header bytes for ISO14230 systems, whatever value
you provide for ‘n’ will be ignored by the ELM323, and
the appropriate value will automatically be calculated
and inserted just before sending each message.
A feature has been added to this version of the IC
to allow experimenting with the header bytes, while not
affecting the periodic ‘wakeup’ messages. That is, a
separate set of header bytes can be used for the
periodic wakeup messages and for those used by the
standard requests. This is accomplished by first
assigning header bytes (or leaving them as the default
ones) then initializing the OBD bus. Whatever header
bytes are being used when the bus is initialized will be
‘locked in’ at that point and used for all of the periodic
messages until the IC is reset (or the AT SW 00 is
used to turn them off). Issuing the AT SH command
after the bus has been initialized will only affect the
requests that follow, and will have no effect on any of
the periodic wakeup messages.
ELM323DSD
After sending a request, the ELM323 waits a
preset time before declaring that there was no
response from the vehicle (the ‘NO DATA’ response).
Depending on the application (and priority of the
request), users may want to modify this timeout period
to allow more or less time. The ST command is used
to do that.
The actual time allowed before a timeout occurs is
(approximately) 4 ms x the byte value passed as the
hexadecimal argument. Passing a value of FF thus
results in a maximum time of about 1020 ms. Note that
a setting of 00 (zero) is not allowed, and will be
replaced internally with the default setting value – hex
32 (decimal 50) resulting in a timeout value of
200 milliseconds.
SW hh
[ Set Wakeup to hh ]
Once a data connection is made with a vehicle,
there needs to be data flow every few seconds, or the
connection will ‘go to sleep’. The ELM323 will
automatically generate ‘wakeup’ messages in order to
maintain this connection whenever the user is not
requesting any data. (The responses from these
messages are always ignored, and not seen by the
user.)
The time between these periodic ‘wakeup’
messages can be adjusted in 20 msec increments
using the AT SW hh command, where hh is any
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