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Hi Stefan
I finally was able to take another day off work to try and get on top of this problem.
Thank you for sending the video tutorial.  It proved quite easy to follow. 
I deleted previous copies of TeraTerm and (empty) Settings files from my laptop, and started again, carefully following the procedure in the video which was exactly as I had done it many, many times before.  The video doesn't mention that you need to be connected to the FIS-Control in the car via Bluetooth, but I guessed that before I started (some people need to be told EVERYTHING!).
Once I got to the XMODEM - Receive screen, nothing happened.  Except that the Protocol changed itself after a few seconds from XMODEM (CRC) to XMODEM (checksum) as it did last week.  And as last week, no data arrived. 
I had changed the Baud rate to 115K, and when it didn't work I tried several different Baud rates.  but it made no difference.
I think the problem is that the Protocol changes itself from CRC to checksum.  I've tried everything but can't solve this problem.  Everything else, including Bluetooth, seems to be operating normally.  Bluetooth was paired at all times with the FIS-Control.
Do you have any answers please?  I feel I'm wasting days at a time and I have other things I want to do.
Thank you
KM

Hi Stefan
Are you able to give me any advice on my post of 7 October?
Thanks
KM

More frustration!  I have just spent two hours sitting in the car trying to send labels to the FIS-Control. 

I followed the instructions in your second post precisely.  The laptop and the FIS-Control were paired and data seemed to be transferring (blue dots running across the page on the Bluetooth screen).

However, it was not possible to find where the settings on my laptop were going to.  I tried searching every folder on my system but there was no settings file.  Eventually I got a message “File transfer not completed”. 

I wondered if I should have entered a new file name in the box on the ‘CRC’ screen to send the settings to and tried this, but it made no difference.  The FIS-Control was talking to my laptop but the data was going nowhere.  I wonder if your instructions missed a step somewhere?

Eventually COM Port 4 disappeared, and later COM Port 3.  I don’t think it was anything I did.

You say I should “open the settings file with the online Configurator” so I looked for the settings file with the Browse button.  But again, there was no settings file.

After two hours I gave up.  I’m obviously doing something wrong.  All I want to do is to load up some labels so I know whether I’m looking at Water temp, Oil temp or Intake Air Temp etc.

Are you able to suggest where I’m going wrong?

Thanks

Clicking on ttermpro opens a dialogue box.  I've taken a screen print but I don't know if it will reproduce in this medium.  I'll try:

Looks like nothing happened.

The dialogue box has a radio button for TCP/ICP at the top, and a button for Serial at the bottom. However, there is no way you can select the button for Serial - it's fixed on TCP/ICP.  I tried to change the default settings but nothing worked.  I tried every option in the various menus but again nothing changed the default setting in the dialogue box.  I got a different error message each time.

I accessed the teraterm Help facility and the Help box opened with a range of options, none of which worked. 

I have no idea how to use teraterm.  It's very old, so maybe some of the links have broken?

I feel I'm wasting my time with this application.  I need either a user manual that works or a different application altogether

Stefan – I think there’s a misunderstanding here.  I’m not at the stage of trying to communicate with the FIS-Control.  I’m still trying to open tera term.  I haven’t selected “TCP/IP” or “Serial” or anything else as I haven’t yet got into tera term!

I extracted the files from the compressed tera term folder and it told me there were (from memory) 86 files extracted.  I looked at these, but none of them is an .exe file.  There are a lot of .dll files, a lot of Application files, Help files etc but nothing resembling an .exe file.  I tried to open some of these in case they would provide some help, but no good.

I’ve tried to run teraterm-4.92 but my system won’t recognise it (even with a complete filepath/address).  Is there another way of launching an application without an .exe file?  Windows 10 doesn’t seem to recognise it.

Cheers

I have extracted the files, but as I said Stefan there is no .exe file.  There is a ttermpro application file, but I can't open that.  It just tells me "Invalid host".

Are you able to help Stefan?  I need to either run teraterm or find a simpler method.

Thanks

OK.  I have downloaded teraterm 4.92 onto my laptop, but I can't open it.  It is a compressed file. 
It has no .exe file to execute or open it. 
Windows doesn't recognise it and has no obvious way of opening it.  It wants you to choose a program or app to open it, but doesn't offer any guidance on what to choose.
There seem to be several online options for opening compressed files but none of them seem to work.
I tried several including Crafty File Viewer but they don't do anything useful. They ask if you want to buy apps for cleaning up your file directory etc.
There are several online guides to teraterm including https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/te … rm-windows but they are all quite technical and seem to be based on Windows 7 or XP which has a completely different system.  I can't see how they can be applied to Windows 10.
I also checked some video tutorials on teraterm but they assumed a high level of technical knowledge without which they are incomprehensible.
This seems to be where I am stuck.  I hope if I can open teraterm I will be able to follow the instructions above.
Thanks

Thank you Stefan.  I would really appreciate a tutorial.  I grew up in the pre-computer age, didn't see my first computer until I was over 40 and as a result I'm always struggling with anything more advanced than Word or Excel..

Thank you for your patience with an old codger :-)

Thanks Stefan.  Unfortunately, I have not already used the Configurator.  The data I have on the screen presently comes direct from via OBD, and the sources were entered by means of the stalk.

The problem is the Configurator has hundreds of data boxes which obviously are not all necessary, and I don't know how to enter the data into the Configurator to code the FIS Control.  I am looking for a manual or guide on how to use the Configurator.

Secondly, you have given me some settings to send to the laptop.  But it's not clear where I enter those settings or how I send them.

My apologies - I'm not very tech-savvy!  I don't even have a smart phone, although I believe my laptop has Bluetooth loaded

Hi Stefan

Thanks for these answers.  Q.2 - I have wideband.  Q.3 - No.. I tried that.  I'll keep experimenting!

I've been through every value on vcds (latest version, Ross-Tech OBD interface) which is called "temp".  Since there are no label files on my engine module, I made a note of all "temp" values - 22 in all (some groups had more than one "temp".  I cycled through each of these looking for a value which rose more slowly than Water temp but finished around the same level.  There was none.  All 22 values are either Water Temp, EGT or Intake Air Temp (although some didn't move at all).

I also looked for an extra sensor on the oil filter housing but nothing there.  However, there is at least one blank port so I will hang an oil temp sensor there as well as an oil pressure sensor.  I really like to know what my engine is doing!