What I HATE About FreeEMS! - A Guide To What Sucks :-)
Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 7:45 am
I'm using the system every day now and some things are irritating me a lot! Some of the things are tooling related, others tuning, others the firmware itself.
0) Car setup hate list
1) Firmware hate list
2) Build hate list
3) Log viewing hate list
4) Tuning hate list
5) Firmware load hate list
Fred.
0) Car setup hate list
- 26/05/14 IAT heat soaks and is a slow moving plastic one, results in lean running sometimes
- 26/05/14 Injectors aren't consistent and result in lean running sometimes
- 26/05/14 Lack of cold idle valve of any type
- 26/05/14 Lack of keyboard backlight + weight of laptop + more, but it was free, can't complain.
1) Firmware hate list
- 26/05/14 Lack of proper support for coil-follows-input style dwell
- 26/05/14 Lack of sensor fail over protection
- 26/05/14 Lack of tip in enrichment
- 26/05/14 Lack of proper warm up enrichment algorithm 09/04/15 Note, this only affects fuel economy, really. On steep WOT sections it may bog too. No longer have steep sections in commute.
- 26/05/14 Lack of proper starting fueling setup
- 09/04/15 Lack of after-start enrichment
- 09/04/15 Lack of better timed priming function
2) Build hate list
- 26/05/14 Having to build EMSTune from the top dir and run it from core, VERY error prone...
- 26/05/14 Not having proper versioned apps with my own closed source junk
3) Log viewing hate list
- 26/05/14 Having to manually range-adjust my log traces
- 26/05/14 Having to select the same shit every time in my log viewer
- 26/05/14 Not being able to batch-open logs
- 26/05/14 Lack of proper view/parse arch
- 26/05/14 Various things that OLV has that ULV does not
4) Tuning hate list
- 27/05/14 Bad default window sizing and lack of scaling, only scrolling, font size huge, etc
- 27/05/14 Inability to group, order and manipulate numeric values which are naturally in an annoying order from the fw
- 27/05/14 No "dark mode" for night tuning, which is the bulk of tuning, all backgrounds dark grey or black, darker mix of colours for tables, etc.
- 26/05/14 Having to kill EMSTune to get a new log file with metadata in it. EDIT: Seconded! http://issues.freeems.org/view.php?id=934
- 26/05/14 Not being able to choose a log file name once the above is sorted
- 26/05/14 Gauges all read wrong, and update too slowly
- 26/05/14 Having to close 2d tables to see the curve updated, EMSTune again
- 26/05/14 No tracing in 3d tables, 2d tracing very very wrong
- 26/05/14 Tunable list popping up over what you're doing after a dialogue!!! :-/
- 26/05/14 Lack of offline mode in EMSTune, really annoying having to work on the car for offline adjustments
- 26/05/14 Lack of nice disconnect/connect display, but he's changed this, not tried it yet! Tried it, still not good enough.
5) Firmware load hate list
- 26/05/14 Not being able to say "put the latest on the car"
Fred.