hey everyone it's the ionic guy today is a viewer request video I get this question asked multiple
times a day especially since I've been putting out videos where I show how to use it to collect data
on your ionic 5. and that's going to be how to use a Bluetooth OBD2 port scanning device
this video doesn't just apply to the ionic 5. this is any EV on the market today so if you
want to know how you can see all the interesting data about your car and its battery stay tuned
so for nearly a year now I have been using the vpeak OBD2 scan tool this device runs on
Bluetooth and you can connect to an Android phone an iPhone any phone that is available
today so this is what the tool looks like you can see this is the exact model number I will have a
link in the description if you're interested in purchasing I did try another brand and it
didn't work very well since I bought this mid last year it's worked absolutely flawlessly so
let's just start from the very beginning with how to use it so here's the tool you can see it has a
bunch of electrical connections on the inside of the connector so to use this all you need
to do is have the logo facing you so like this in my case and you're going to reach up under
the steering wheel and feel around and there is a port that that connector will mate into
and just put that in until you feel it engage fully then you can go ahead and turn on your
car and I am using a pixel 7 to show you guys how to use this but it will work on any phone
iOS or Android so I just downloaded the card scanner Elm OBD2 app from the Google Play Store
so once you have the car scanner app downloaded you can just open it up and once you're in you
will see this screen here what you're going to want to do is hit connect at the bottom
next no Bluetooth device selected and as long as Bluetooth is active on your phone and turned on
it will search and try to find a device and you can see here at the very top there's vpeak so
I'm simply going to click on that so now to pair with the VP it's asking for a password
and to find out what the password for your vpeak is in the little box that came with it
on the inside underneath this foam there's a little paper print out and this has instructions
on how to connect your phone in case you ever forget so you can see here so here for mine it
says my password is one two three four I don't know if that's changed since I purchased mine
I would imagine it's probably stayed the same so it's either one two three four or probably
zero zero zero zero so here on the phone we will type in one two three four hit OK and we should
be connected now so the next thing you need to do is your connection profile and what this does is
it tells the Apple kind of car you're driving and what data coming in is connected to what
parameter so this is really important so if you click on that then you can scroll down to Hyundai
and scroll down again until you get to ionic
five there it is so this profile here applies to multiple cards you can see ionic five ev6
the Nero Genesis gv60 GV 70 G80 and the ionic six so they all fall into this one
category so if you own any of them just pick that one apply selected profile okay
hit next and you can see down below it says connecting to
the eom and then it should connect to the ECU
it does take a few seconds
so you can see down below Elm connection connected ECU connected and now we can check out all the
cool parameters of information in the car and this screen here is very powerful there's all
sorts of different things you can look at so the first thing you're going to want to do depending
on where you live so anybody outside of the United States is going to want to use celsius and people
in the United States are going to want to use Fahrenheit so if you go into the settings here
you can go ahead and click on units
and choose whichever you prefer I'm going to choose Imperial for miles per hour
I'm going to click miles per gallon because that's what we use here in the US gallons U.S gallons PSI
Fahrenheit
and you can even choose different acceleration units so if you want to measure it in G's or
in meters per second squared you can do that torque we use foot pounds here in the US and
power units is really important because electric motors are more commonly referred to in their
kilowatt output versus horsepower output at least when it comes to electric cars so I change that
to kilowatts and you can go back so from the main screen now we can go ahead click on the
dashboard because that's where we're going to see all the data that's pertinent to us
it's going to load that up and this is the first screen you're going to see and this is a lot of
useful information you can see the state of charge remaining energy in the battery pack the voltage
um the battery Min and Max temperatures and I know a lot of you are interested in that
especially in the winter time you guys want to see what your battery's at how
preconditioning is functioning you can also see the coolant temperature which
is the loop that goes through the battery you can see your 12 volt battery voltage
and you can even see the state of charge of the 12 volt you can see mine's at 88 right now and if
we were driving you would see the RPMs of the motor the torque and the speed of the vehicle
now this isn't my favorite screen I typically scroll one screen to the right
this is the one you'll notice that I've shown off in lots of videos I just prefer the blue
color it stands out a little bit more I like it that way and in here you can even see the
indoor temperature the outdoor temperature the temperature of the inverter the motor the
battery Inlet all sorts of different information about the car so I advise you guys to just go in
here scroll around play around see what you can find here you can see graphical views of some of
these parameters which is really nice scrolling right again shows you all sorts of different
temperatures throughout the battery pack you can see there's many different temperature readings in
the battery so you can see them all individually more graphical views of some of these parameters
not sure what this is looks like more temperatures so there's just a lot of useful information in
here so just go ahead scroll around see what you find interesting and yeah have fun with it so from
this screen if you want to get back to the main home screen and the bar at the top has disappeared
just tap it once and up in the top left you can hit back so back on the home screen there's some
other things you can look at here you can check out all the sensors which is just a giant list of
every sensor that you can look at in the car and there's quite a few of them so go through these
check them out you can look at live data which creates charts of whatever you want so you can say
distance traveled and average speed and as you're driving this will live update so you can build
your own chart so to say you can also check out diagnostic trouble codes by clicking there and
then you can scan all these different parameters you just hit read down the lower left I'm not
going to do that because it takes a while so if you do have codes on your screen you can find
out what they are here what's also really cool is down here there's a button called Data recording
and if you click on that whenever car scanner is running in the background it will be recording
data from all those different sensors you can see down here there's already a file for today
and once you are out of the app you can go ahead and Export that and bring it into a Excel file
and you can look at all that data it's actually pretty neat so that's a cool option if you're
into that and I use this feature for one of my recent videos where I did acceleration tests
so down in the lower right here you can click on that and if you pull up somewhere come to
a complete stop and accelerate it will give you acceleration times based on the car's speed and
you can go ahead and add different speed levels here so you can say 0 to even like 55 hit ok now
you have 55 between 40 and 60. it's a pretty cool feature you don't have to go out and buy an extra
accessory like a draggy but I think for most of you you're going to live in the dashboard here
which is just most of the information you need to know you don't really need to get into the
fine details of every sensor in the car for any real reason just seeing the battery temperature
pictures I think that's more than enough for most people so if you're new to ionic 5 play around in
this dashboard check out the different parameters and how they affect your car and charging times
and everything just general information is good to know so know your car know its
limitations know how to use it so once you're all done all you have to do is hit disconnect
it will disconnect from the device and you can pull it out I keep it in my glove box in case
I go to charge somewhere and I just want to take a look at the sensors and see what they're doing
so it's a neat little device I think everybody should have one if you're new to EVS it's a good
way to learn the terminology learn the different units using kilowatts kilowatt hours checking
out your battery temps all around just good knowledge so anyway guys if you liked today's
video give it a thumbs up and I'll see you in the next one take care everybody [Music]