Help MAKING an emanage cable?

[airman86]

Hey all, after pouring over the internet for several hours, i have found two guides on how this is done. I got a deal on an emanage blue with ignition and fuel harnesses, a greddy type-s bov and a 28x6x3 FMIC for $250 which i couldn't pass up. The only downside is that the emanage didn't come with the cable. These are the two guides to make one I have found:

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum...59030a ... um...98845

The first one is good, shows the importance of finding the TX and RX, but doesn't explain how to use hyperterminal and exactly where each cable goes on the other end of the USB. The second one shows pictures and how the colors match up, but no cable is the same and I doubt I can find the exact same dku-5 cable with the exact same colors that I found in the guide.

Can anyone shed some light on this? I keep finding references to mohdparts.com which seemed to have plenty of info. I have been all over the yahoo groups, i have searched on nicoclub, google, and just about everywhere else. I have had luck finding a write-up on yahoo groups, however all of the links and pictures are broken. There is a writeup in the Files section of the emanage yahoo group. The link to the file is there, but an error gets returned that says "file not accessible", which I don't understand because these files are hosted on yahoo's servers. It's not like they're hosted somewhere else that could be unreliable.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks.


Modified by airman86 at 5:33 PM 3/21/2009

[romerider153]

just a question for you cause im kinda in the same boat what are you going to do for software once you make a cable

[airman86]

yahoo groups has it hosted as well as a few other places.

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/emanage/files/
Modified by airman86 at 6:47 AM 3/22/2009

[AK-Z]

search google for USB pinout

[airman86]

alright. i've got the cable wired up. i know the cable is working because of a successful loopback test with hyperterminal (touch the tx and rx wires together). however, something that has bothered me since i have gotten this unit is the "interaction" light stays on, regardless of whether or not it's hooked up to a PC. i haven't found a -clear- answer if this is normal or not anywhere online.

anyways, i can make the interaction light blink when it's hooked to the computer. all that has to be done is connect to it using hyperterminal, and start mashing keys. SUCCESS! blinky lights. occasionally i'll get some strange acscii characters back from the emanage showing that it's supposedly working.

however, support tool will not pick it up. i've tried every type of setting available (even tried changing com ports even though I know it's com1) with no dice.

the emanage is outside of the car, with only 12v and ground run to it. perhaps it needs to be in the car first before it will talk to a emanage?

much help appreciated.

[Warped161]

did you really have to make three threads for this? lol

[airman86]

well, i looked for an overall "general" electronics section. i found one for car audio/dvd players/etc, but not this type of stuff.

i could have posted it just in 240 technical, but then about 90% of the board may not have seen it. since this is not directly related to 240 - i figured i'd spread it out.

MODS: if this is unacceptable, please close any unnecessary threads and move the thread where it should be.

[airman86]

any ideas? =/
Modified by airman86 at 9:50 AM 3/24/2009