Hello Alex

I think you may perhaps have become a little ambitious and wishful thinking with your very recent discovery of what a neat bit of kit the FCR truly is, especially at its price and even better with the saving you made based upon our willingness and flexibility to re licence FCR's to different models at a very reasonable cost.

It is actually a matter of public record that i designed the licensing of the FCR to be flexible enough that we could do pretty much anything we wanted with it, should the need ever arise, and my own FCR is indeed MV and Multi model in so far as the models the FCR covers.

However as mzplcg states, the FCR certainly is not designed to be able to ever hold enough information to do everything on absolutely all LR models like the MSV-2 does. In fact it is so full already that we will be struggling to put the Evoque on it. However for what functions and models it does cover, It's not exactly rocket science to figure out that with just one firmware, all information for what it does is contained in it, without trying to be clever and sifting throuht the firmware updates files which you will note, although some are in plain text, have been especially treated just for such reason.
Unless you would like to explain the order of even the plain text files.


BTW, it's actually not the Firmware, but the licence which sets up what is possible on any given FCR, but thanks for sharing your thoughts on how someone less experienced that we are, might perform vehicle model recognition

The FCR was introduced quite specifically as a lower cost compliment to the other equipment in our range, specifically as an emergency use item to keep in the vehicle, and such as Pete who is supremely knowledgable quite clearly states

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the FCR is not available as a multi car license tool.

No offence taken alex
You do seem to need telling the same thing a few times though

Certainly nothing wrong with a bit of thinking, that's what led me to design this most impressive little mars bars sized tool in the first place. And anyone who has had to work and put up with the Dealers equipment cannot but help being utterly stunned by how small quick, intelligent, simple to use and capable our equipment is.

It's understandable, the closer you are to Land Rover, the more brainwashed you are that no one could possibly produce anything better than them for their vehicles,
I wonder how many LR mechanics are fluent in the term VBF File, without appreciating that the V stands for VOLVO

Imagine all that boring time wasting vehicle model and type selection rubbish you have to go through with IDS, yet in seconds after plugging in the FCR it figures out for itself exactly what vehicle you have connected it to and brings up the relevant menu, be it Can Bus or earlier stuff like the 2002 to 2005 L322 or even the P38.

If you think the FCR is cute and smart, you should see what i am just finishing up the first build of.
measuring just 10 CM wide by 8 CM High and less than 2 CM deep, with a 3.5 inch full colour touch screen.

Re modifying OEM as built data files:
Sounds great in theory and you do seem to come up with a lot of brain storm theory

But as a file fiddler ( ) you must have noticed the line in VBF files like this

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file_checksum = 0x367F5BD7

If you modify the file this will have to be re calculated.
That's actually the easy bit for someone used to dealing with such stuff on a daily basis, and is for the VBF file itself.
The one for the data is simply embedded in the data itself of course and while is technically a check sum, is actually more a cypher algorythm with seed numbers and so on. Thats actually why no one else could do even the most basic of CCF editing except us for a really long while.

There is actually something else about the files that upsets the IDS, i did not get to the bottom of as i did not need to and BTW As buillt VBF files are now only availaible on line in real time when you have the vehicle hooked up .