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Requirements

Booster cable The openOBD service is built upon gRPC technology. Using gRPC you can build automated and guided diagnostic procedures that improve the efficiency and reliability of your remote diagnostics service.

No Jifeline Networks Partner?

In the future we want to make test sessions available that can be used to test and play around with openOBD, without the requirement of being a partner of Jifeline. For now, if you want to test with openOBD, you need to have access to a partner dashboard of Jifeline Networks.

The implementation of these procedures is done by creating and controlling an openOBD session through the Jifeline Networks infrastructure. This 'quick start' guide will bring you up and running using our example Python implementations.

Jifeline support site Jifeline Networks!

If you are a partner of Jifeline and not already a member, you can subscribe on the Jifeline support site. This site gives you, as a partner, more insight in things like:

  • connecting your J-ReX
  • creating tickets
  • managing users
  • troubleshooting

Go to Jifeline Support

  Before you start, please check if you meet the following requirements.

You are a partner of Jifeline Networks

For now, the openOBD service is offered to Jifeline Network partners (a.k.a. providers). If you are currently not part of the Jifeline Network, please get in touch with someone of our commercial team.

You have generated API credentials

You need access to the Partner API of Jifeline Networks. In the examples on this website the credentials are loaded from environment variables. For development purposes it is good practice to store these environment variables in a single file and load them into memory at the start of your program.

The values that need to be present are given below in openobd_credentials.env. Steps to acquire the credentials from the Jifeline Partner dashboard are given here.

OPENOBD_PARTNER_CLIENT_ID=<Client ID>
OPENOBD_PARTNER_CLIENT_SECRET=<Client Secret>
OPENOBD_CLUSTER_ID=001
OPENOBD_GRPC_HOST=grpc.openobd.com
You possess the J-ReX Vehicle Communication Interface (VCI)

The J-ReX interface You need access to a J-ReX connector (VCI of Jifeline Networks) to start developing for openOBD. If you do not have one, please get in touch with someone of our commercial team.

Continue to the next step: Creating credentials