[mikepday]

UPDATE!

Seems I had a dry solder joint on the USB connector to the PCB in my DICE
after stripping it and testing the connections.

Subsequently tried to re-solder the joint but probably made it worse as I didn't have a fine enough soldering iron to repair it. might get it fixed one day. in the meantime bought a Drew technologies Mongoose SAE J2534 pass thru off eBay from seller "vvdeinfo" who was very efficient, helpful and communicative.

Although it is only the first day of use, this thing seems at least as good as a DICE. More compact, easy to download/install drivers (even from within my Virtual Box windows machine which I keep as isolated as possible away from the internet), appeared immediately on the VIDA comm tool config box in vehicle profile tab, connected first time after one setting change in Virtualbox, even thru a 25meter unpowered USB lead from my desktop in the office to the car outside on the drive.

currently can't recommend it enough........ if there are no updates you can assume its still good!