Custom Protocols

While managing configurations, you’ve surely seen that the devices can log data coming from ECU streams, given the protocol the ECU streams with. The ‘protocol’ is a description of how all ECU channels are encoded into the stream.

AiM supplies a rather complete set of protocols, but you, as a user, can decide that AiM supplied protocols don’t match your needs, and you can define yours: the ‘custom protocols’.

The custom protocols manager is a database, the window of which is vertically divided in two parts: left and right.

The right part is a custom protocols list, in which, by default, all custom protocols are shown. For each custom protocol you’re prompted the most important information, and there are buttons for the main operations you can do on custom protocols.

The left part is the ‘filtering’ part, in which you can drive a subset of custom protocols to be shown instead of the complete list. From top to bottom in the column, you find: all custom protocols, manufacturers, manual collections.

All Custom Protocols

Select this item in the left column and the list of custom protocols will include all the custom protocols you ever managed.

At the very first use of RaceStudio 3, selecting this item will always generate an empty right list. Click on the ‘New’ button to create a new custom protocol or on the ‘Import’ button to add a custom protocol from a drive.

Custom Protocols of Specific Manufacturers

Say you create, or you import, custom protocols for two/three different manufacturers, this left list will be populated with a row for every manufacturer.

Select any manufacturer item in the manufacturers list and the list of custom protocols will include all the custom protocols you ever managed for that manufacturer.

Custom Protocols in Manual Collections

You can create collections of custom protocols you want to group for any given reason. The way to do this is add a manual collection in this part of RaceStudio 3. Once you create a collection, selecting it in the left list will have RaceStudio 3 show in the custom protocols list all the custom protocols you put in the collection itself.

List of Custom Protocols

Let’s now go through all the buttons over the list of custom protocol in order to see all the operations that you can do.

• New/Delete

  to add or remove a custom protocol.

• Import/Export

  to add a custom protocol copying ir from an external drive, or to export a custom protocol copying it into an external drive.

• Authorizations

  to manage all possibile passwords that protect your intellectual property.