Originally Posted by 4x4 (Post 2372742)

My Volvo inde always uses Vida with bluetooth, never seen him connecting a cable to the car yet

Originally Posted by bertrandls (Post 2372501)

ah, interesting, a bit soon in my priorities but.... what is your price? what computer is it? ( wish it worked on mac)

Originally Posted by colinbos (Post 2372705)

It doesn't need internet connection to use VIDA. Its all self-contained.

It won't work on anything newer than Windows 7 (as I understand) unless you install a Virtual Machine running Windows 7 or less.

The DICE part of it, needs a USB port in order to connect the OBD to the laptop in order to read the cars data.

Originally Posted by Floodys (Post 2372698)

Quick question on the VIDA and dice, I've got a couple of iPads, a old compaq laptop, has cd drive, won't connect to to the web but runs Windows 10, and 2 tablet/small laptops w/o cd drive that will conect to the web, so question is if I were to buy the VIDA stuff (the software I think?) and the dice (the bit that connects to the OBD plug?) do's the software when loading need any web conection? If not I can load on the "full size laptop". preferably I'd like to put it on the smaller laptops but haven't got cd drive so don't know how I'd load the software? Will it load ok, work of with Windows 10? Only ask as I've loaded PP2000 before for my peugeots and it was a pain to install the software as it needed early Windows to set it up?
I Could sell a laptop or 2 and buy one off here done but would rather keep the ones I have to save chopping and changing all my stuff on them.
One last question, I see this has been loaded on a tablet, can it be put on a iPad? Cheers

Originally Posted by bertrandls (Post 2372746)

Ah ha... good to know. If you have the chance to ask him what he uses I'd be interested.
I've heard bluetooth connection is slower but I can bear with it if I don't have to buy an extra computer just for the car...

Originally Posted by Vindo (Post 2372808)

There are DiCE units that use bluetooth, I did not use one personally.

Depending on what you do with your VIDA it's always recommended to have a rock solid connection, hence I prefer the cabled solution. You will not be able to perform software upgrade on your car, this is typically a very sensitive operation where you would want to make sure nothing goes wrong (i.e.your bluetooth connection does not drop out).

For read operations, I agree a bluetooth connection might come handy.

The tablet is not locked down to using VIDA only (as many other solutions on the internet are), you are free to use it for any other purposes you would use your laptop for.

Originally Posted by Vindo (Post 2383234)

Two tablets sold. The one below is ready to go, can be purchased with ot without DiCE. Running latest Windows 10 (including security and feature update 1709 released Jan 2018)