neoVI FIRE 2 User’s Guide
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© 2016 Intrepid Control Systems, Inc.
Version 2.1 - October 10, 2016
Figure 2: neoVI FIRE 2 Package Contents.
Starting top center with the FIRE 2 itself and going clockwise: µDB-9 to DB-9
conversion cable; USB cable; microSD card reader; FIRE 2 Ethernet Cable Adapter; neoVI-OBD-1 cable. The software/driver
CD can be found in the center. Note that the OBD cable you receive may differ from the one shown here.
Software
In the FIRE 2 package you will find a software/driver CD containing:
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A copy of Intrepid’s Vehicle Spy vehicle network software.
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Drivers for the neoVI FIRE 2.
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An API install kit containing the neoVI Explorer utility for configuring the device.
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Documentation materials.
Intrepid’s Vehicle Spy (often abbreviated as
VSpy
) is the “Swiss army knife” of automotive
networking tools. It allows you to easily monitor and transmit on vehicle networks, and includes
capabilities for ECU simulation, data acquisition, scripting, diagnostics, data analysis and much
more.
The neoVI FIRE 2 and Vehicle Spy are designed to work together hand in hand, and we
recommend purchasing a VSpy license to go along with your new hardware. If you did so, then
a full copy of the software will be included on the software/driver CD. If you did not purchase