Cheap ALDL USB Adapter

Please ignore everything below for now.

Note: The colors of the wires often change on the cheap adapters, please make sure that you are connecting to the proper pin.

What is ALDL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALDL

With the 12-pin cable the black wire from the USB cable goes to pin A while the green and white wires from the USB cable are connected together to pin M on the 12-pin connector.

USB Ground to pin A

USB Data wires go to pin M

With the 16-pin cable (1995) the black wire from the USB cable goes to pins 4 and 5 of the 16-pin connector while the green and white wires from the USB cable are connected together to pin 9 on the 16-pin connector.

USB Ground to pins 4 and 5

USB Data wires go to pin 9

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC (Red Devil River Adapter)

Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1a86:7523 QinHeng Electronics HL-340 USB-Serial adapter

Bus 002 Device 007: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port (Generic USB Serial Adapter)

https://www.firebirdnation.com/forums/topic/457761-make-an-obd1-cable-for-under-20/#entry888714

http://www.techedge.com.au/vehicle/aldl8192/8192hw.htm

http://www.ws6transam.org/ALDL.html

http://fbodytech.com/misc/raspberry-pi-dashboarddatalogger/#Software

https://resfilter.github.io/aldl/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaF25oIVG08

http://steventsnyder.com/linuxaldl/

https://github.com/dominickpastore/aldl_echo

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=106819