DPF regen

If there’s no power it’s dead, I’m not aware of a battery in the new Carista scanner.
If they are concerned about somebody on the adjacent motorway lane hacking in and forcing a regen’ or messing with your indicator flashes, who knows.
 
DXX said:
The OBD port is only powered with keyswitch on, there’s no drain.
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Not sure that is the case. The small solar panels - from Ring, The AA and the like can plug into OBD ports and Garmin and others sell an OBD adapter for their dash cams that allows the permanent on feed for their ‘parking mode’ (supposedly with gadgetry inside preventing a totally flat starter battery).
 
Lubrown said:
Not sure that is the case. The small solar panels - from Ring, The AA and the like can plug into OBD ports and Garmin and others sell an OBD adapter for their dash cams that allows the permanent on feed for their ‘parking mode’ (supposedly with gadgetry inside preventing a totally flat starter battery).
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I’ve had my MS Control plugged in for the last couple of months, no issues, it shuts down when I switch off the key switch
 
On my next day off, Friday, I will plug in my original Carista then lurk in the van to see if the pretty lights do indeed stop flashing after the van has gone to sleep. I now need to know!
 
I imagine OBD ports have a couple of pins that remain live - and these are used by the corresponding sockets on plugs for the dash cam parking mode etc.as well as pins that are switched with the ignition - which presumably the MS device uses in order to remain plugged in without draining the battery.
So yes, worth seeing what Carista does as it could go either way. I have a vague memory of the lights coming on as soon as I plug mine in, which I do before putting the ignition key in. Having said that mine is aT5.1 so maybe being older doesn’t have any fancy on/off software?
 
DXX said:
The OBD port is only powered with keyswitch on, there’s no drain.
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Obd2:is 24/7 powered.

Anything left plugged in will drain the battery and generate a "quiescent power draw too high" fault code.

The carista Evo is clever as it detects when the can bus goes to sleep and shuts down.... Then wakes up again when the canbus comes to life again.

I run an Evo in both vans and leave it in all the time, and jump between the VAG DPD and Carista APPs.
 
Lubrown said:
Why can’t the car manufacturers just build this in so owners can see what’s going on?
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Because they consider is unessessary information for the average end user.

They will however give you a dpf light when it's blocked!!!!, giving you a nudge to take the van for a 40min drive.

For the rest of us that are interested in this info we can use these 3rd party tools.
 
Dellmassive said:
Obd2:is 24/7 powered.

Anything left plugged in will drain the battery and generate a "quiescent power draw too high" fault code.

The carista Evo is clever as it detects when the can bus goes to sleep and shuts down.... Then wakes up again when the canbus comes to life again.

I run an Evo in both vans and leave it in all the time, and jump between the VAG DPD and Carista APPs.
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Thanks matey, you've saved me some wasted time on my day off!
My next question is if I can transfer my subscription from the Carista original to the new Evo version? I'm paid up to early 2027.
 
Drive Wayne said:
Thanks matey, you've saved me some wasted time on my day off!
My next question is if I can transfer my subscription from the Carista original to the new Evo version? I'm paid up to early 2027.
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Yes, just buy the Evo hardware.

FYI .. I have two Evos and two Gen1 white dongle.... All on the one Sub.

The sub is on the account, not the hardware, so you can have as many dongles as you wish.
 
Dellmassive said:
Because they consider is unessessary information for the average end user.

They will however give you a dpf light when it's blocked!!!!, giving you a nudge to take the van for a 40min drive.

For the rest of us that are interested in this info we can use these 3rd party tools.
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Has anyone built/bought a DPF monitoring display based on Arduino? I have seen a few discussions around where peeps have built them for other vehicles that have a small LCD display permanently in the dash giving info like:
distance since last regen,
regen in progress,
time left to complete regen
etcetc.
 
Madpasty said:
do you have to manualy keep pushing refresh on this version like you do on VAG DPF lite?
EDIT just googled it and looks like it can be set to auto refresh
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Well I never...

Thats always been a big annoyance having to keep hitting refresh. That and the phone keeps going to sleep :/
 
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