Originally Posted by
Pulse_GTO
I'm still having the problem. I tried my old laptop with an older HP Tuners version and it seemed to allow the WB to remain in the channel list while scanning. Unfortunately my old laptop is not very reliable, it radomly turns off with motion, so not be suited to sitting in the passenger seat while driving.
I bought a different USB to Serial adapter and tried that with my new laptop, but it would still not connect. The LM-2 would connect with Logworks, so the adapter seems to be working. I had read somewhere that the scanner will poll COM ports looking for the WB and if it could not locate it then it would disappear from the channel list. I tried deleting all my COM ports, assigning the WB to COM3, then COM1 but still no luck.
Is there a magic sequence of how to open the software and plug in the WB and the MPVI to get this to work? It used to work and nothing that I'm aware of has changed hardware or software wise.
I guess as a last resort I can try to find the install file on my old laptop and roll back the software version on my newer laptop and see if that makes a difference.
One last question. If I cannot get this to work, is there another WB that I could use via the serial input in the scanner that I can move in between vehicles?