Hello to all fellow members. I recently bought a HEX-V2 device and when connect with my car (Audi A4 B9 2.0 TDI Quattro '2018) I had the next message at my screen:
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and when trying long code helper in module 46:
is about to send experimental coding to LCode. This information is uverified, untested and you will be using it AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Can somebody explain what these messages mean?
Thanks in advance.
Regards from Greece,
John
HEX-V2 and HEX-NET offer so called "experimental labels" which are non-editorial labels that come directly with data for that unit.
This means something like "The unit manufactor describes this bit as follows but Ross-Tech did not test if this is true"
Can be helpful at some point!
I happen to share John's apprehension about the risk-warning message that reports when accessing the very-useful "yellow" long coding helper screens. The information in these screens largely aligns with the data that's available for long coding from non devices: this Bit/Byte information from the module's data is invariably the only data that's available to users from these non- devices.
Without wishing to be too critical of what is otherwise an excellent addition to the conventional long-coding helper screen facility, - I believe that the warning message for the "yellow" screens is overly dramatic and somewhat misleading (no offense intended to the facility designers)
Whilst I suspect that many experienced users on this forum fully understand the context for the warning message, I imagine that the average, or newby user is probably inappropriately deterred from using the "yellow" screens by this melodramatic text. Yes, the data may not be tested by RT staff, but the information comes directly from the module's manufacturer.
To my mind, the status of the long coding information in the "yellow" screens is exactly the same as the status of the information contained in each adaptation channel descriptor within the same module's database. I'm fairly certain (and I assume) that RT has not individually verified each and every adaptation channel descriptor which comes from the manufacturer -nor is there a need for RT to do this. Nevertheless, a similar warning message about "experimental coding" and "use at your own risk" doesn't appear whenever a user accesses the adaptation channel database.
Again, I stress that my critique is not meant to under-mine what is an excellent facility. In fact, my suggestion for a change to the text message has quite the opposite objective: to accurately reflect the true status of the information so that greater use of the facility is promoted (because the "yellow" screens can be very useful ).
Don