Did your vehicle's Check Engine light just pop on? An OBD-II scanner can provide some direction. We tested a handful to find ...

An OBD2 (On-Board Diagnostics II) scanner can provide information about the status and health of various vehicular systems.

OBD-II became the mandatory I/O diagnostic port on cars starting around 1996 in the US. Considering that the interface consists of a couple of I/O lines, serial/usb adapters have been ridiculously ...

It unlocks the magic through its Vehicle Interface, which plugs into the OBD2 port and translates the CAN bus messages to OpenXC format. These messages are packaged into JSON format and can be ...

First things first, we need to address the fact that there are different types of OBD2 scanners. The more traditional kind is that which plugs into the port and has a screen and scanner built-in. As ...