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Dr Prius and the Gen4 Prime (bad news)

Discussion in 'Prime Main Forum (2017-2022)' started by sylvaing, Mar 14, 2024.

  1. sylvaing

    sylvaing Senior Member

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    I prefer looking at the road than a phone screen thank you and analyse the data afterwards in a proprietary MS spreadsheet.

    20mV is 0.02 which is within that 0.1 to 0.01 you mention btw. The 0.001 is the precision of the data and it's what is reported by the car BMS system, not some off the shelf thingy. If you don't want to believe what the car is giving you as number, then why would you believe what is Dr Prius giving you? Its answer is based on the same data...
     
  2. vvillovv

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    All gauges have a bias. The bias needs to be computed and taken into account to eval a trust percentage.
    The only way that can be done is over time using base readings and comparing them with current readings.
    Or on the devels side by reading the specs doing the math and writing the program, than comparing the apps gauge data stream to the specs for each model the app supports..

    And that trust percentage is going to be different across different supported models.

    Beyond that there are more ways to eval and compare reading in one app to readings in another app for consistency between apps. Than you can check and compare an apps data output to data seen on the OEM gauges over time. Consistency is the key, because a gauge isn't necessarily going to be calibrated exactly to each supported models data stream, unless the user does the calibration and double checks for inconsistencies in the gauge(s) full range, if the full range is even known, exactly..
     
    #22 vvillovv, Jul 13, 2024
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