How to Replace a Lost Key Fob for <$75

Flew-d-coop said:
I opened a ticket with autel and they responded with:
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Its nice that they responded quickly, acknowledged the problem, and seem to have a 'fix' in the works.
I fear that at some point, the Beta will stop working because of version issues or similar, and they might not be inclined to fix it.
 
MrFixit said:
Its nice that they responded quickly, acknowledged the problem, and seem to have a 'fix' in the works.
I fear that at some point, the Beta will stop working because of version issues or similar, and they might not be inclined to fix it.
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I sent a new email that generated a new ticket number to report the difficulties I was having installing diag-asia for the AP200 - I did not reference the Honda beta.
 
Welp, programming the Civic's key fob with the Clarity beta experiment is a failure as I do not have a sub-menu "Registration" as member lincomatic did in his blog (1st post of this thread).

If anyone has any idea of something I may have done wrong - please advise.

Thanks

Here are the screen shots from my attempt:
 
Flew-d-coop said:
Welp, programming the Civic's key fob with the Clarity beta experiment is a failure as I do not have a sub-menu "Registration"
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Sorry to hear. I assume everything was tracking the example until you got to the menu where "Registration" should have been?

I'm going to ask this dumb question (because I couldn't find the answer in our previous discussions)... Did you try to do this with the currently released AP200 diagnostics - ie: before you obtained authorization and installed the Beta version?

Edit - Although I did not see that you tried, I now recall that I saw a video where someone tried and failed with a Civic and the baseline AP200. Of course, not sure what version they were trying. But this does not seem hopeful at this point.

It's very annoying that people are at the mercy of overpriced dealers for what should be a simple and low cost function.
 
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I did not try before installing the beta due to the issues with the google play store and this youtube video where it did not work on a push button accord.

Edit - Yeah, this seems to be a money grab as the dealers want to keep the $$$ in their pockets and Autel (et all) who only allow fob programming on their high end units.

But, it was fun to try, I now have a pretty good scanner, and and the folks on this forum were very accommodating to me - Thank you all...
 
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lincomatic said:
I lost one of my key fobs a while back, and was balking at the ridiculous cost to replace it. Then I found cheap replacement fobs on eBay for <$25, and remembered that the Autel MaxAP200 bluetooth OBD-II dongle that many of us purchased to read battery capacity info (MrFixit and I used it to figure out how to do that w/ cheap generic OBD-II dongles, too) had a lot of professional capabilities built into it. It turns out the the MaxAP200 can also program key fobs, something that I was told only expensive professional equipment can do.

I wrote up the procedure in my blog:

http://blog.lincomatic.com/?p=2243
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Many, many thanks for this. For me the process was definitely not hiccup free but it's done and I'm thinking of making a third so I don't have to be so worried about it next time around, should there be one.
 
I've made two spares, although I've yet to find a reasonable way to get the keys laser cut without spending a fortune, so neither have the emergency key.
 
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Thank you so much for this. I just followed these instructions and successfully programmed two new keys (bought from ebay for $30). There were a couple of hiccups hear and there, but overall it was a smooth process.
 
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