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Hi there,

I would like to have a feature to simulate a connection to my vehicle, if it was previously connected.

Every time I connect Forscan 2.3.35 to my vehicle I am asked, if the vehicle detected is the correct vehicle I wish to connect to.

I suspect Forscan to save some information of my vehicle on my hard disk, which is fine. No problem if it would be even shared on a Forscan Cloud for developing new features.

Therefore, it should be somehow possible to simulate a connection to my vehicle just for testing purpose.

For instance: I have asked a question on this forum and somebody anwers me, that I should go into some Module configuration and look for some option. Before I go out to my vehicle I would like to test this on my kitchen table just by entering the suggested option and see if it is actually there on my vehicle and which options I have.
I can then go well prepared to my vehicle and implement the changes.

Of course I should be asked by Forscan, which vehicle of all the known ones (found on my hard drive) I would like to connect to.

Additionally, wonderful would be a feature to change my simulation to another vehicle, I do not own, but is registered as a supported vehicle by Forscan. Therefore one could see which options other vehicles have and compare this to mine or my future vehicle. Somebody, who knows the software better than me could even develop new features by comparing two vehicles.

Of course Forscan will not be able to simulate an actual WRITE command to the ECU. I do not need this. The simulation should just act as a filter for Module configurations and maybe even Module asbuilt (for comparison to other vehicles), if somebody uploaded their configuration image to the cloud, or the configuration image is loaded from disk.

Thanks!

Best regards
LeFish

Iam also interested in such a function

best rergards

Karsten

Dear all,

just a note and maybe an feature request. I've been dealing with HW issues of my ELM327 adapter (bad HS/MS switch) and I've forgotten to check out "Demo mode" checkbox after fixing it. With this configuration I've attached FORScan to my 2020 Mazda 6 with DTCs originally coming from non existing TPMC sensors. The attempt to reset these DTCs ended up with the strange behavior of the car during the reset and the attached DTC log result.

Fortunately I've been able to reset everything after the "Demo mode" checkbox switchover.

So here is my wish: Would it be possible to display a window during the ForScan startup with the information that the demo mode is active, please?

Thank you.
Cheers,
Charlie

Mazda 323 SDN 1,5i - gone
Mazda 3 2,0i - gone (the best car of my life)
Mazda 6 GH 2,0i 2011
Mazda 6 GL 2,0i 2020
Mazda MX-5 2,0i

The "Demo mode" prompt is there, at least in my case, whenever I click "Connect" it informs me that demo mode is active.

Regarding the request - would be awesome, usable for configuring templates for PID monitoring...

it is a good idea , when the Forscan can have this function ?