We also might have a cross-platform tuner that doesn't crash, lie to you, corrupt your data, etc, soon. That'd be a nice change! :-D
A brief history of FreeEMS tuners:
- Python tuner - By Aaron barnes, the first, used to tune the first FreeEMS car in Florida, too. Rudimentary functionality, but got the job done. Made the mistake of interacting with Aaron's wife. She banned him from talking to me. Project stalled, firmware moved on to more advanced places.
- MegaTunix - By David Andruczyk, abandon-ware now, but dropped by FreeEMS some time ago due to the author being impossible to work with despite his good heart that is usually in the right place. Often crashed, FreeEMS support only ever thinly hacked in, strong M$ flavours present, best gauge cluster setup, by far, partly courtesy of MrOnion, Dave was reluctant to make changes to move it forward toward a better place, though. And wordy about it, too.
- EMStudio - By Michael Carpenter, showed promise, smashed together to a basic working form in just a month. Never stable functionality wise, somewhat crashy, but not as bad as MTX, stopped working on it several times, sporadic updates, half finished changes, buggy result, inconsistent behaviour, wrong cell tracing, wrong gauge readings, wrong data export, etc. Frustrating, as it's the closest in terms of how it works.
- New tools in dev right here in NZ courtesy of mother Russia. More to be revealed once they are suitable for general use. Cross platform. Crash-free, correctly architected? Time will tell. I'll have a close hand in guiding this one, should be good.
- New U* tools on the horizon. Vapourware for now. Needs to happen, though, and soon. Many things depend on this. Many very very good things. Differentiators from all of the competition, including the pro gear.
Fred.