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Wow, this looks pretty cool.

Which adapters did you guys get? And do they get in the way of your legs at all?
Whenever I get the BT gadget I'll do the same as I do for my Tactrix or AP cables... I unclip the OBDII terminal. With the terminal unclipped and pointed toward the driver, you can plug stuff through the opening under the steering column, with a built-in shelf to lay coiled cords on. Leaving that connector clipped in and driving around with something connected is asking for problems... IMO ;)
 
The Torque app runs good on my Android tablet. The gauges look very nice on the 10 in display. It also can measure acceleration using the tablet's accelerometer, so can calculate torque, horsepower, 0-60 times, etc.
 
this thing is useless for any suby older than 2007. tried it on my 04 last week and did nothing. :-(
since this thread isnt too old, thought i'd chime in my .02 and the bit of research ive done...

i have both the bluetooth elm327 obd reader and the knockoff kiwi wifi reader, also using Torque for Android and Rev / Dashcommand for iOS on iphone4.

reviews:

Torque: great interface, cool rearrange-able gauges and readouts, very cool that you can do a digital heads up (which i did, actually successfully, pics if i can find em). but the transfer rate/ refresh rate of data is slow...even even slower depending on the number of metrics you choose to display...

(*this theory was explained somewhere on online in laymans terms - essentially the BT bandwidth is 1/10th that of the wifi dongle, causing "jitters", wifi is smoother, but also depends on how the app handles that data)

the bluetooth dongles most typically used with android setups have a low baud rate (aka refresh rate) compared to wifi models, and moreover, <08 models without CANbus refresh slower as well, adding lag to the data sent to the phone...

on wifi, Dashcommand:

clunky.as.ever. at least my experience with it was lukewarm. i like that it has highly customizable displays, but that also seems to be part of the problem. havent spent more than 10 minutes with it.

on wifi, Rev:

simple. essentially adding only one gauge to your arsenal - i bought it instead of buying a boost gauge, since its reading off the ecu, it should be accurate, and via wifi, fast. but i dont have a proper mounting point for it, so again, only used it for about 30 mins. logs look good and available metrics are good too.
 
works awesome on mine
07 STI, HTC Android + cheap chinese eBay bluetooth ODBII
 
I had this on my galaxy note and I noticed it was a bit laggy and inaccurate. The HP and torque numbers were way off. HP was showing 485 on a stock sti and torque was 520 lol. I wish. Also i just installed my boost gauge and noticed that the boost gauge shows 17 psi and the torque app shows 15.
 
It seems that Torque now supports SSM via OBDkey:

The Torque Android app now works with SSM - Subaru Forester Owners Forum

Great news. Also, it is questionable whether the (analog) boost gauge is inaccurate or Torque is inaccurate, given that torque reads the OEM MAP sensor to derive such a value. I would think that if the MAP sensor is off you would have other problems. :confused:
 
I have been using Torque for quite a while on my 06 STI. I love it. Just know that the displayed info is a bit laggy (I am told that this may be due to my Samsung phone), you have to do the vehicle profile as accurately as possible, and you have to change the boost calculation method in the options for it to display correctly on the Subarus. The one guage that is never accurate for me is remaining fuel. No idea why.

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