ELMduino VS arduino-esp32

Compare ELMduino vs arduino-esp32 and see what are their differences.

ELMduino

Arduino OBD-II Bluetooth Scanner Interface Library for Car Hacking Projects (by PowerBroker2)
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ELMduino arduino-esp32
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MIT License GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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ELMduino

Posts with mentions or reviews of ELMduino. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.
  • Connecting esp32 to a bluetooth ODB2sensor
    2 projects | /r/arduino | 23 May 2023
    Coding: You'll need to communicate with the OBD2 scanner somehow. Check out the ELMduino library which is designed to talk to the OBD2 scanner via ELM327 Bluetooth adapters. You might need to read through the library documentation and understand how to send/receive data.
  • Melody Box linked to OBDII
    1 project | /r/Itasha | 12 Feb 2023
  • Using an ESP32 Wrover as an OBD2 Adapter that supports ELM327 Wifi/BLE and Webserver with Custom UI OBD2 webpage for Infotainment display
    1 project | /r/esp32 | 14 Nov 2022
    A small approach to a project https://github.com/PowerBroker2/ELMduino
  • Identify rx/TX on an elm327
    1 project | /r/arduino | 10 Aug 2022
    I believe its much harder to get data off of the elm327 via serial, there is a very easy example sketch on the ELMDuino library page on github. Here.
  • OBD-II Vehicle data port to ESP32 anyone?
    1 project | /r/esp32 | 17 Mar 2022
    Not quite sure why you'd want to modify the reader. There's a boatload of WiFi ELM327 dongles for under $20 on Amazon. You can tap a 5V line to power the ESP32 in the vehicle for something permanent or use a power port for something portable. If you want to easy mode it, use something like the Elmduino library.
  • Mini OBDII tachometer i made
    1 project | /r/yaris | 13 Jan 2022
    I used this library. 99% of the code was already there. All I had to do was find the UDID number for my bluetooth scanner the esp32 would connect automatically. Now using the library I can pull just about any information from the OBDII port.
  • OBD2 -> LED Matrix Help
    1 project | /r/arduino | 10 Aug 2021
    So parsing out the ODB2, that device is an ELM based device, so this should make your life easier: https://github.com/PowerBroker2/ELMduino
  • Arduino HUD for my Charger
    2 projects | /r/CarHacking | 9 Apr 2021
    Also, check out the code AND 3d print files here to make one yourself! If you want to make a different Arduino car-hacking project, be sure to check out my car-hacking library ELMduino!
  • Raspberry Pi OBD GUI ?
    3 projects | /r/CarHacking | 5 Feb 2021
    This is a newer arduino library for interacting with cheapo ELM327 based devices https://github.com/PowerBroker2/ELMduino. I chopped up one of my OBD2 elm devices that was having bluetooth probs and hooked it via serial to an old arduino uno I had laying about. I got his software_serial demo to work, shows live RPM data. The hardest part was finding the serial lines in the ELM unit. If you've got an arduino based device with bluetooth then it should be snap.

arduino-esp32

Posts with mentions or reviews of arduino-esp32. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
  • Any good/worthwhile Camera sensor modules for arduino/pico for still photography?
    1 project | /r/diyelectronics | 11 Dec 2023
    You could just buy ready-made ESP32 boards with an OV2640 camera built-in, then customize the example sketch from https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/libraries/ESP32/examples/Camera/CameraWebServer to your liking.
  • I am trying to write to an SD card, it "works" but I can only find the file on PC if I use data recovery software?
    1 project | /r/esp32 | 9 Dec 2023
  • ESP32 memory corruption
    2 projects | /r/esp32 | 7 Dec 2023
    Are you perhaps this poster? https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/issues/5250 - asking that poster for the list I just asked for went nowhere and it was auto-closed.
  • ESP32 WiFiMulti: Connect to the Strongest Wi-Fi Network (from a listing of networks).
    2 projects | /r/u_KeatonParker | 1 Oct 2023
    /* * Based on the following examples: * WiFi > WiFiMulti: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/master/libraries/WiFi/examples/WiFiMulti/WiFiMulti.ino * WiFi > WiFiScan: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/master/libraries/WiFi/examples/WiFiScan/WiFiScan.ino * Complete project details at our blog: https://RandomNerdTutorials.com/ * */ #include #include WiFiMulti wifiMulti; // WiFi connect timeout per AP. Increase when connecting takes longer. const uint32_t connectTimeoutMs = 10000; void setup(){ Serial.begin(115200); delay(10); WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA); // Add list of wifi networks wifiMulti.addAP("ssid_from_AP_1", "your_password_for_AP_1"); wifiMulti.addAP("ssid_from_AP_2", "your_password_for_AP_2"); wifiMulti.addAP("ssid_from_AP_3", "your_password_for_AP_3"); // WiFi.scanNetworks will return the number of networks found int n = WiFi.scanNetworks(); Serial.println("scan done"); if (n == 0) { Serial.println("no networks found"); } else { Serial.print(n); Serial.println(" networks found"); for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) { // Print SSID and RSSI for each network found Serial.print(i + 1); Serial.print(": "); Serial.print(WiFi.SSID(i)); Serial.print(" ("); Serial.print(WiFi.RSSI(i)); Serial.print(")"); Serial.println((WiFi.encryptionType(i) == WIFI_AUTH_OPEN)?" ":"*"); delay(10); } } // Connect to Wi-Fi using wifiMulti (connects to the SSID with strongest connection) Serial.println("Connecting Wifi..."); if(wifiMulti.run() == WL_CONNECTED) { Serial.println(""); Serial.println("WiFi connected"); Serial.println("IP address: "); Serial.println(WiFi.localIP()); } } void loop(){ //if the connection to the stongest hotstop is lost, it will connect to the next network on the list if (wifiMulti.run(connectTimeoutMs) == WL_CONNECTED) { Serial.print("WiFi connected: "); Serial.print(WiFi.SSID()); Serial.print(" "); Serial.println(WiFi.RSSI()); } else { Serial.println("WiFi not connected!"); } delay(1000); }
  • problems connecting esp32 to sd card
    1 project | /r/esp32 | 29 Sep 2023
  • ESP32 S2 Help
    1 project | /r/arduino | 1 Aug 2023
    I have 2 ESP32-S2-Saolo-1 's on hand. I am trying to do the example Wifi FTM code that can be found at the following repo: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/libraries/WiFi/examples/FTM
  • The Nano ESP32
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2023
    That has not been my experience at all as a user. ESPHome is even easier than Arduino and I haven’t touched firmware code in years.

    The price makes a huge difference when you have dozens of them operating which is trivial with a decent hydroponics and smarthome setup. I also have a dozen boards just sitting idle ready to be called up to replace a failed one or use for a new project because they’re so cheap.

    Not to mention the Arduino core is supported officially by ESP32: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32

    Who actually uses Arduino in production? Everyone just uses modules (for ESP32) or rolls their own using the Arduino board as a reference.

  • Arduino Uno R4 WiFi
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jun 2023
    They've done a good job of hiding the RTOS from you and making most sketches run fine without porting, but you're still running as a task under the RTOS, yielding between loop() calls[1]. This leads to mysterious timing issues if you aren't aware of it[2]

    It doesn't appear that the Arduino core for the Renesas chip is using the RTOS, at least by default -- its main loop is literally doing while (1) { loop(); }, similar to how the AVR core works. [3, 4]

      1. https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/72c41d09538663ebef80d29eb986cd5bc3395c2d/cores/esp32/main.cpp#L45
  • exit status 1 error not going away! Pls help
    2 projects | /r/arduino | 21 Jun 2023
    https://github.com/lewisxhe/esp32-camera-series/issues/11 may interest you - you need all the files in the same dir, not just the .ino by itself
  • Do you have any idea why this program would not work? [ESP32]
    2 projects | /r/arduino | 19 Jun 2023
    I copied all the libraries from here: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/libraries

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ELMduino and arduino-esp32 you can also consider the following projects:

ELM327-emulator - ELM327 Emulator for testing software interfacing OBDII via ELM327 adapter supporting multi-ECU simulation

esp-idf - Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for Espressif SoCs.

ArduHUD - Arduino/ELM327-based project to create a car head's up display

Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

AndrOBD - Android OBD diagnostics with any ELM327 adapter

platform-espressif32 - Espressif 32: development platform for PlatformIO

piObdDashboard - Dashboard application that collects and displays realtime car telemetry information such as speed, rpm, throttle, etc using a raspberry pi. A short clip of it running can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTwZY9AT3mg&ab_channel=BrianChan

WLED - Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi!

ddt4all - OBD tool

esp32-wifi-penetration-tool - Exploring possibilities of ESP32 platform to attack on nearby Wi-Fi networks.

CoPilot - Raspberry Pi powered in-car infotainment system

TinyGo-On-ESP32 - This tutorial will walk you through how to setup Ubuntu 20.10 with Ubuntu Desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4B, install the Espressif ESP-IDF, install Go and TinyGo and finally flash an app to an Espressif ESP32 Microcontroller.