
Below are some short movies of the "E6Tuner" software in use.
The software is running in 640x480 on a junk-bin laptop, the font size selection has not been tweaked to work real well in this low resolution mode so it's not perfect. These are however, in-car videos. The laptop is connected to a E6K and TechEdge 2A0 in my FC3S RX-7.
This video shows 2D map editing in follow mode, on the base fuel map, I play with the throttle a little bit to demonstrate the reasonable response even on this junky laptop. You may notice in this video that the WBO2 gauge on the bottom of the screen is always a solid red bar, this is not correct and should be displaying the AFR proportion (on a scale of 0.7 - 20 : 1 IIRC), the gauge code for the bar gauges is getting redone a bit thats why it's not moving, the text drawn within the gauge is still updated and displaying the current AFR's though.
This video shows the realtime datalog feature that displays the contents of a 'virtual datalog' that is continuously updated and truncated, storing the last 15 seconds of acquired data in memory, automatically and at all times. This is kindof hard to interpret as I've left all data sources enabled in the display, you can turn the individual elements on/off with the keyboard leaving only what you are interested on the screen, greatly improving the readability of the data. Note that this contains both E6K and TechEdge 2A0 data, in one place, seamlessly.
The realtime datalog display has some minor pauses regularly because this laptop lacks the processing power to sustain realtime communications threads (not dropping ANY serial data) and a full framerate in the datalog viewer. On a slightly newer laptop this would be resolved (and you'd also likely have higher screen resolution, which is so much nicer).
I would also like to note that the last time I checked my software was getting 29HZ from the E6K, thats 29 samples of engine data a second. The DOS E6K software in my experiences cannot handle more than 10HZ, I had assumed this was a bottleneck of the E6K itself, but have discovered this is not so. I place top priority on the E6K and 2A0 communications threads and the graphics are secondary, so if the laptop is a bit underpowered the graphics will suffer but the datalogs will still be COMPLETE, with high resolution data. To me, this makes sense, as you can then review the high resolution data in a offline mode, or even a different machine.
In the second video, the data being viewed realtime is also getting logged to disk, which is something you can't do at all in the DOS E6K software. In the DOS software, if you are datalogging, you are doing nothing else, in E6Tuner you just hit 'S' anywhere in the program and it automatically starts a datalog, creating the filename for you (based on date/time) and you continue using the program as if nothing changed. Hitting 'S' again, anywhere, stops the datalog, closes the file, and again you continue using the program. This means you can have gauges running, be tuning your maps, or watching a datalog (saved or the realtime history datalog) while datalogging, it doesnt matter.
Thats it for now, thanks for looking.