TPMS (tire monitoring system) plugin

[wolfgang928]

New TPMS (tire monitoring system) ready for use

Based on the great work of Roberto Montanari's USB receiving device and the
great work of Dejan and MrBean we now are able to present this new CENTRAFUSE plugin.

This TPMS Plug-In is able to show pressure and temperature failures of each car tire. It is possible to configure up to five tires to be controlled. You can use a setup routine to configure minimum and maximum pressure limits and maximum temperature limits for each tire including the spare wheel inside the carpet.

This plugin is based on a hardware development, which is documented at RRTMS - RoadRunner tire monitoring system extension plugin - MP3Car.com

_Dejan_ from this forum has made wonderfull electronical boards for me to include this piece of TPMS hardware.


Main screen in side view mode


main screen in top view mode


setup page 2

http://www.inselserver.com/download/...PMS/CFTPMS.exe

Current version: 3.1.9.6

It is very important, that you first delete the old config.xml files of this plugin before starting up CF, otherwise there will be a lot of error messages.

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THIS VERSION 3.1.9.6 is a BETA version of the new 3.2 
THIS VERSION IS FOR TESTING PURPOSES ONLY
DO NOT USE IN CAR ENVIROMENT

ONLY CLEAN SKIN IS SUPPORTED WITH THIS VERSION

TWO THINGS DOES'NT WORK
- LISTVIEW CLICK ON AN ENTRY DOES NOT UPDATE RIGHT ALERT INFORMATION
- CAR VIEW SCREEN DOES NOT WORK WITH MORE THAN ONE PAGES
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Version: 3.2.0.1 NOT PUBLISHED UP TO NOW
- NEW:     maximum number of available wheels changed from 5 to 10 

- MODIFIED: fully modified SETUP pages for handling more than 5 tires and up to 3 
            different USB units (that must be enough) and season information.

- NEW:     new Sensorpos10 dialog page to handle the assignment of 10 tires

- NEW:     support of 'Clean', 'Onyx Day' and 'Onyx Night' skin. To use these skin have a look on 
        the skin download section of CENTRAFUSE forum. The AURA skin is currently not yet developed
        and is available later.

- NEW     fully modified main plug-in screen handling
        
        Background information:
        Because of the ability to handle up to three units which each can handle up to 10 tires
        it is impossible to show these 30 tires in one simple plug-in main screen.
        There are two possible ways to solve this problem, one to leave the car image layout and
        support only a simple list view with battery, temperature and pressure information icons 
        and additional text.
        
        The other way is to use one main screen with either scroll buttons for a manual scrolling 
        through 6 possible screens, each with 5 tire information. Or in automatic mode with a priority
        logic (first alert information from USB unit 1, then unit 2, at least unit 3) and per unit 
        starting with the alert information of tires 1 to 5 and then tires 6 to 10. With this technology 
        the main screen uses only two skin definitons (one for 4 tires and one for 5 tires) which relaod 
        unit and tires specific car images.
        
        Now there are two possible screen layouts (CAR image layout and LIST view layout, which can be selected 
        using TPMS setup pages. The LIST view layout displays one line per tire with alert status showing three 
        icons maximum to give information about pressure, temperature and battery load. Additionally a text field
        gives information about the most relevant alert. The speach output is also available.
        
-NEW     individual car image configuration per unit possible. Different image definitions for SETUP 
        and MAIN screen are supported.
        
-NEW     parameter inside config.xml to limit the maximum number of VOICE alert messages (default: 3)
-NEW     parameter inside config.xml to select SUMMER and WINTER data. This parameter is relevant only for 
        pressure, temperature and sensor position data.


Version: 3.1.0.0 (01 June 2010)
- Recompilation with 3.1 cfplugin.dll
- NEW automatic creation of missing config.xml file
- NEW conversion of skin file structure to new CML (Centrafuse Markup Language)

Bye Wolfgang928

[wolfgang928]

UPDATES:

Unzip all files of the entired package and save files into plugins\tpms path

place for future TPMS 3.2 bug fix patches


Bye Wolfgang928

[sP3ci4L-K]

hello...

seems to be a great plugin...but which hardware do i need to use it? i got an bmw e36 an there is no tire monitoring system integrated... how can i upgrade it?

[wolfgang928]

Originally Posted by sP3ci4L-K

hello...

seems to be a great plugin...but which hardware do i need to use it? i got an bmw e36 an there is no tire monitoring system integrated... how can i upgrade it?

Have a look to the updated first post

Bye Wolfgang928

[MrBean]

Hey Guys,
Just a word of thanx to Wolfgang for developing this plugin, I probably drove him nuts with all the feedback on the alpha-versions

But, anyway, here's 2x screenies, one of Aura, the other Onyx Day skin, to show what it looks like on my system.

@ Wolfgang - you are free to use these in your documentation as requested earlier, just thought I'd post them up here too.

Kind regards,
MrBean.

[wolfgang928]

Have a look at the first post of this thread.

Thanks again to Dejan and MrBean and of course to the hardware developing guru Roberto.

Bye Wolfgang928

[alpha_tc]

in first post is only describe software tools...but which tire-sensors i need which are compatible with this prog?


but THIS IS A GREAT PLUGIN!!!

[MrBean]

@ Alpha TC:here is the link at Mp3Car to see what is needed to make this work.

Enjoy.

[deltabi]

Wolfgang,

This is really a great plugin! I was waiting for it before ordering the TPMS kit, now I can buy it!!!

I have shortly tested the plugin and I would like to contribute to it by providing the italian localization of the plugin text messages, if you agree.
I've seen the xml files containing the program messages in the Languages folder and I was wondering if it would be enough to translate those lines: I can provide the new italian.xml file to you to include in a next release of the plugin.

I would also suggest you to let the plugin choose the english messages if you don't find the correct language file (now the plugin presents german text).

Thanks again.

[wolfgang928]

Hello deltabi,

thank you for your offer to write an italien language file. I will place it into the next version

I will have a look inside because of the standard language, it should be english in case of not finding a language file, but i have seen, it is not.

I have just fixed it and will publish an update dll.

Bye Wolfgang928