I am attempting to use my uConsole as a OBDII scanner. The uConsole is running Debian 12 Bookworm and I have it connected to my vehicle with a VLINKER FS cable via USB. On my uConsole, I have Scantool 2.1 installed, which launches, detects the scanner, and can even pull live system data out of the OBD, but when I attempt to run a diagnostic scan, the entire application crashes and the last line in terminal reads “Shutting down Allegro due to signal #11, segmentation fault”. I ensured that Allegro is installed but am not really sure where to go to next from here?
The uConsole is my foray into Linux so please be gentle regarding my greenness. Thanks for any help.
I had a similar problem with Scantool before.
Try adding your user to the dialout group sudo adduser $(whoami) dialout
If not I can bust mine out tomorrow and try it on the uConsole.
You’re exactly who I was hoping to find here! You came recommended on Reddit haha. I did add myself to the dialout group this morning while troubleshooting. Thank you for the input. If you get around to poking around with yours, please let me know if you find anything! I appreciate the help.
Will do I’ll test it tomorrow. I haven’t used my OBD scanner on the uConsole or arm yet, so there might be something not documented. What scanner do you have?
I was able to read codes and get the sensor data. My user was already part of the dialout group and I only installed scantool and selected the COM port and baud rate. This is the device I have, it came with the scantool software when I bought it about 17 years ago. The Linux version has always worked for what I needed.
