It's been in our testing that we found the cheap scanners work the best compared to some more expensive scanner options out there.

 

Right? Cheap sometimes works for simple things.

 

Again thank you for this important information for us all.
I'll be looking into this when time permits. 👍
Driving cycle is ok with me but deciding and clearing in a quick manner is the way to go.

 

Bought it.
Thanks @MotoMikey 🙏🏽😎

 

Bought it this morning, all ready delivered..!

 

Same day delivery? Yeah, same with mine.

 

Thanks for the links

Just ordered

 

Amazon has lighting deal on the scanner right now plus a 10% coupon. Was $17.50 before tax

 

I have the adapter cable and tried odb Bluetooth dongle I have for my pickup and it works fine on Swampy. I could leave it hooked up to the Swampy all the time and it can show me a lot more info than a standalone odb reader can.
This reader is nice to have.

I normally use the DashCommand app with it.

 

That's really nice to have and a valuable tool for thinking as we do in the car world.
That would be nice to monitor certain functions on the bike with the phone attached via phone mount.

Ive actually got a Bluetooth dongle and may have to try this. 🧐🤔

 

That's really nice to have and a valuable tool for thinking as we do in the car world.
That would be nice to monitor certain functions on the bike with the phone attached via phone mount.

Ive actually got a Bluetooth dongle and may have to try this. 🧐🤔

It will be nice once I get a phone Mount.

 

Does that app let you change the units for MAP to anything other than kPa?

Also will leaving this plugged in drain your battery at all (even a little)?

 

Also will leaving this plugged in drain your battery at all (even a little)?

Yes, there is parasitic drain, no way to turn off most scanner dongles. If you ride/drive regularly its not a huge deal. I left one plugged in my FJ Cruiser for nearly a month because I forgot. Its a daily driver and I had no issues. I wouldn't want to leave one in and park it for extended time.

Just downloaded the app (30 day trialware, $9.99), and in settings ~ units ~ pressure you can change from kPa to inHg or kg/cm2

 

Thank you! Last question...what made you settle on the DashCommand app? Did you try or check out any of the others listed on the Amazon description? (FORScan, Torque, BimmerCode, Dashcommand, AlfaOBD, Carista...)

 

I don’t remember why I chose it. I’ve been using the dongle and app for a while on my pickup. I was curious to see it it worked on Swampy and it did. I haven’t done anything more than play with it a little in the garage.

 

Once I get a phone holder for Swampy the gauges might be a little more useful to me.

 

Fwiw, ive been using this inexpensive blue tooth dongle with torque pro app and it works fine on the ZX. I will test it with dash command later on tonight

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I don't have an Android but thanks 👍🏼

You guys wouldn't believe what I had to do to retrofit something similar to the non-OBD ECU in my 1986 VW Vanagon. It was quite a project! So nice that this is plug and play.

 

They make an ios version and like everything else Apple, it costs more
(I stopped using Apple products in 1985)

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Thanks @Romad [emoji1360]

 

Took some bluetooth two stepping, as always, but got dashcommand working with the android version of the obd2 adapter I linked. Didn't run through everything but it connected and was getting data from bike.

Its a nice dashboard app at first glance for sure. Still like Torque Pro for diagnostic but need to spend more time with dash command before making a judgment. Ive got 30 days of free trial left

Fwiw, Ive got an OBDLINK dongle (like swampy linked) for my F800GS and they are awesome. Support advanced stuff that's so far not needed on the ZX mostly because the GS uses the Motoscan app that can reprogram the ecu / dash settings in some areas and it requires a "better" dongle to handle true two way large packet obd2 communications.

Most all of the cheap ones like I linked for ZX will clear codes if they work. If someone develops an app that can modify ecu/dash stuff for ZX (they need access to Kawasaki API and it looks like nobody public has that) then you will almost surely need a better dongle that supports true two way communications