truck0321

Good question. I believe Cobb uses the AP hardware to do the OBDII ECU flashing translation; where, the Tactrix and Autonostic cables have hardware built in to do the same thing. Example: You can't install a Basemap from the StreetTuner Software on a laptop, you can load realtime maps just like the AP, but no Basemaps without the actual AP.

 

I can use my APv1 cable and StreetTuner-Advanced to get what you guys call the "learning view" as it is just a couple tables in the map that hold those learned values. However, when I try to use the software "Learning Viewer" with my Cobb APv1 cable the computer blue screens and reboots(hopefuly:lol:it is Microsoft ya know). Using the Autonostics cable I can do the exact opposite. I can do everything including read and write my Cobb AP Basemap, but I can't hook up to ST-A or the AP. So it's the cable.

Ahh, that makes sense. Incidentally, I have been able to get the Learning Viewer software to work with the APv1 cable. It was also able to read the DTC codes. I got all excited and thought for a second I could use the APv1 cable to read the ECU, but realized there has to be some hardware involved and it was pointless to try. I ordered the VAG-com cable off of Ebay as it looks like Autonostics folded. Tactrix wants 169 for the OpenPort 2.0, ouch.