touche.

I might start a thread about CarChips later, after I've done yet more investigation.

What I'm really looking for is an open system whereby I can hook a computer up to my ODBII port and do whatever I want as far as real-time reporting and long-term logging and analysis.

Frankly, I'm dumbfounded that there is not a single open-source software project that has taken on OBDII or any of the currently-available modules on yet. I would start one myself, but frankly, I'm a web developer and not low-level software engineer.