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Stefan

Thanks to all your emails, I got my collections up and running on my TT.  It's a fantastic system!  Now I'm ready to start some serious upgrading to the engine with the confidence of real-time monitoring of temperatures and pressures.

The only thing I would ask is if you would let me know when you are able to recode the firmware to convert lambda values to air:fuel ratio, preferably with a single decimal point.  The graph is good, but I find it a lot easier to read 12.2 than 0.963!

Thank you for all your help and a great product,

Kerry

One more thing Stefan
The Graph view (for Air:Fuel Ratio) is still not working properly.  As before, the line appears only at the extreme right of the screen.
Do you have enough information to suggest a fix?

I loaded the older version of the firmware you sent me and everything is back to normal.  I entered the presets manually on the stalk.  See next post for further question.

I will have to check the value in adaptation channel 62 and get back to you.  I can probably access it with vcds.

I guess I will also be able to access the part number and software version of the cluster in the same way.  I know the previous owner replaced the entire instrument unit some years ago because of pixel failure as well as coolant temp gauge and fuel gauge failure, but the new numbers should show up on vcds.

I didn't have time to load the older version of firmware before it got dark.  It's difficult working in the car after dark

It is almost midnight on Sunday night here and I need to go to work in the morning so I won't have much time to do anything to the car for a few days.

As you say, the problem seems to be that the FIS-Control has not gone back into normal operation mode.  Something has happened to lock the screen into a fixed position which I seem unable to recover from. 

Thank you for your help so far.  I would not have been able to get to this point without you - but on the other hand, whatever has happened has left me in a worse position than before.  I wonder if there is something unique about the electronics in the TT?  It is not a very common model and I realise that you did not support it until a few months ago.

I'm not sure how to arrange a remote session in the car - you mean a video-type transmission?  Or a data download of some kind?  I think a video will only show me putting the key in the ignition, pressing the reset button, turning the ignition on, pressing the up button etc.   Not much can go wrong there. 

I'm not very smart with computers, but installing the FIS-Control into the car was quite easy.  Much easier than the cruise control which I found very difficult.  Bad installation manual, trying to install micro pins into connectors almost too small to see, stuff that turned out different to what was supposed to happen.

I will do whatever I can to get FIS-Control working again, but I guess I'm going to need your ongoing help to do it.  I'll try loading the old firmware and see  if that works.  I may get some time tomorrow evening.

And so to bed...

Stefan

I'd like to get back to my earlier screen if that's possible.  If the new firmware isn't going to work, maybe we can find a solution in the future.  It would be great if I could get Collections working and have several values on the screen at the same time. 

In the meantime, I will settle for just one value on the screen and the ability to switch it on and off and to use my board computer as normal.

However, I think the problem was not in upgrading the firmware but in pressing the reset key and switching on the ignition.  That's when the system stopped working.

Tried this (three times) exactly as you said. No change

Are you sure I can upload the firmware even when there is nothing on the cluster screen?  I can't set the FIS-Control to Receive data because I can't change the settings on he cluster screen.

No I don't have a smart phone at all.  My wife has an Android but I don't use it.  Can the app be downloaded to a laptop?

I have an overheating problem with the engine of my TT and I want to keep track of it on the cluster.  I can also check it on vcds with my laptop but that means carrying the laptop in the car all the time.

It's getting into our summer and the overheating is getting worse, so I am keen to get FIS-Control operating again. 

Is there a simple fix?  My cluster/DIS screen has been useless since I pressed the reset button on my washer stalk and turned on the ignition as suggested above.

I pressed the reset button and turned on the ignition.  But nothing appeared on the screen.  I tried it again, tried pressing the up button twice, started the engine, switched off the engine and switched on the ignition again without pressing the reset button.

I pressed the up button, the down button, held them in for five seconds, pressed thwm twice for long and short times.  In short, I tried every possible combination but my FIS-Control display has disappeared since I first turned on the ignition today.

How do I get my display back?  And how to upload the current firmware without losing the display again??

Thanks Stefan

Still working on this Stefan...

First - all groups/values in a collection must come from the same controller, right?  eg 01 Engine or 17 Instruments?  Or can you mix controllers in the same collection?

Second, what is the maximum number of characters for the labels?  I have been working on 13 with individual value displays, but the pictures in the latest manual suggest Collections will be different.  The first two pictures are of colour screens where the number of characters seems to vary with the length of the value + unit (ie "Luftdruck 970.0 MBAR" or "Regime Moteur 0 RPM".  The third picture is a monochrome screen (like mine) where the size of the font is larger and it only seems to allow 2-3 (or possibly up to 5-6) characters.  Can this be changed by the user or is it determined by the type of screen in your car?

And one more question - this is not clear in the Manual.  Can the values in a collection only be the ones already in the presets?  ie are you limited to a total of nine values in the four collections, just displayed in different combinations?  If more than nine, how do you input the labels for each value in a collection?  Do you use the boxes at the bottom of the Configurator?

Thanks again