Installing and Configuring ISTAD and ISTA-P for K+DCAN Connections. Easy Step by Step Instructions 

You’re looking for ISTA-P not ISTA P. When you extracted the BMW 7Zip file to your C Drive as instructed at the 16:20 mark of the video, it created a folder at C:\BMW\ISTA-P. That’s what you should enter at the manual search prompt. That’s assuming you extracted it where I recommended. Thanks.

At the 16:20 mark you should have extracted the software to the C:\BMW\ISTA-P. That’s where your manual search should point to.

@@x-coastie Hi there , where is the link for the Ista download

@@dappa311 i woue be greatfull for the link too

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At the top of device manager is a File, Action, View. Click view. Select show hidden devices.

The Ediabas settings are absolutely key. They have to be right. Also the Com Port settings have to match what’s shown. Installing the software is easy, but the configuration changes are they key. Hope this helps…

Where can I get both programs?

I’m not sure why it wouldn’t prompt for licensing. If the application works correctly and reads the cars data, then I would move forward.

Any time!

In ISTA-P and in the upper right corner of mine it says Terminal 15, Terminal 30. In ISTA-D I do see KL 15 and KL 30. I think these are normally associated with voltage for other, maybe older BMW’s. Since I’ve been using ISTA I’ve never cared about that because there’s no readings. Just two dashes for me. I know my answer doesn’t help, but neither do these KL’s.

@@x-coastie In order to make some of the functions work in ISTA-D, the software needs to see a terminal voltage in those locations. Theres a program called "NodeEdiabasVoltageControlV3" that simulates the voltages. I'm still trying to make it work. If you could shed some light it would much appreciated, for I'm not the best at installing and configuring software. Thank you!

The previous step was to extract the files from the Thumb Drive to that location C:\EC-APPS\ISTA\TesterGUI\bin\Release. If you’re not seeing all the files from the extraction, I would make try these steps: A: Make sure that you have enough drive space and perform the extraction again. B: If you’re using some other extraction tool or the built in Microsoft extraction program, please download 7-Zip and use it. C: Make sure it is extracting to the correct location. Outside of these steps, I’m not sure what could be going wrong. Because all you did to this point is to extract (unzip) the files. Hope this helps.

Thanks! I did have some space issues, that might be it

Got the space issues sorted out. Can you elaborate on how you get the license key? What specifically do I email to bimmer diagnostics?

Specifically how do I get the key to send to bimmer diagnostics?

I’m not sure. You may want to check online to see if there’s any blogs out there speaking about it. Good luck!

To complete the installs of ISTA -D and ISTA-P you’ll need 160 GB (60 GB for ISTA-D and 100 GB for ISTA-P) free on the PC. I have a 250 GB external drive I used to download the software from BimmerDiagnotics.com and it’s pretty full. Especially if you also want the SP Datens files (SP Daten files are the upgraded software version of an ECU). Hope this helps.

Yes ISTA can program F & G cars. Take a look at this link. www.bimmerdiagnostics.com

I’ve never experienced that. You may want to remove it from your computer and re-extract it.

Do you have enough hard drive free space? That C:\EC-APPS is the default location assigned by the installer. Have you ran this installer previously? Does C:\EC-APPS\ folder already exist, if so you may need to delete it and rerun that portion of the install. At this point of the install you really shouldn’t be have any issues whatsoever. With all the comments I’ve received no one’s ever had an issue for what you’re seeing. My next suggestion would be to wipe out what you’ve done, follow the instructions even more carefully. If you have the same problem again, you may have a hardware problem.

Thanks very much for your answer. I also need "INPA". Is there a place you can recommend to buy INPA?

I would check that the COM Port is setup correctly.

Good catch! After extracting the files to the root of the thumb drive I thought ‘this could get confusing down the road for me. I should put some sort of organization to the structure’. So I created the folder called BMW Extracted ISTA Software folder and moved ISTAD to it. It’s just the unzipped/extracted location of the install files. Sorry for the confusion.

Good luck.

As promised to report back! The problem I had was I got a fault message whilst trying to open Ista p. I just needed to run as administrator and it worked 😊 Thanks again X-Coastie. Look forward to more videos on how to update modules 👍

I think this video is being confused with some other video. I never mention or refer to the words (streamdataprimitive, xmlvalueprimitive, or SQLLiteDBs). In my video, ISTA-P is not installed. It’s extracted “From” the thumb drive (not To) as you’re saying. Once ISTA-P is extracted to the hard drive, all I show and tell you to do is to copy the executable’s shortcut to the desktop.

Ok, thank you. You're correct. I was a bit confused. This is still the best video that I've seen for installing Ista-D. Thank you@@x-coastie

I was a bit confused because @ 16:03 it does say Ista-P install, this is why i was confused. When I try to communicate with my car from Ista-P a fault occured, saying 10007 (CIP) Fault during initialization of EDIABAS

i couldn't find my primitive files. any tips?

I bought them to…. I never did anything with it.

The one I bought works with Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Some people use those, but since I don’t, I wouldn’t use this video to help you configure things. That’s because the software and hardware need configuring to work together.

So you’re brining up something I’m too smart in. When I looked at alternatives to the K+DCAN cable this was an option. My thought at the time was no matter what, it’s not gonna talk any better or at a faster speed because of the limitation of the OBD port. But like I said, I’m not too smart on this and I could be completely wrong. But so far I’ve not had any issues with the K+DCAN cable while using ISTA-P. Hope this helps!

@@x-coastie thanks for your feedback on this. Also did you find you had to use a voltage stabiliser or was you ok with a high quality battery charger if you didn’t do all modules at once and just one at a time say. This is all interesting to know. Thanks again X-Coastie.

Yep. No problems.

Having no idea what you did, my best advice is to go back through the video and make sure you don’t skip one step (play it, pause it, play it pause it). You cannot miss anything. Everything step I show in the video is necessary.

@x-coastie thank you very much for taking the time to respond!

@@x-coastie is there any chance we could do a shared screen on zoom? I’d be happy to pay for your time.

The download link expires after 30 days. So I don’t have one.

I’m glad it helped!

Hi there, can you tell me where you downloaded Ista D from, please?

When i purchased ISTA the download link provided only lasts 30 days. Sorry I cannot help you with this.

ISTA-P doesn’t install. You should have extracted the ISTA-P program by double clicking the BMW.7z file (see video at 16:20 mark). Check to see if you have C:\BMW\ISTA-P\ISTA P Loader folder on your computer. In that folder should be the actual program BMW ISTA-P Loader.exe. Just double click on the file/program and that’s ISTA-P. It should ask you to Enter the Activation Key. Once that’s done and you’ve completed all the other steps from 16:20 onwards you should be good.

There is no addition installing for ISTA-P.

Here you go. www.bimmerdiagnostics.com

Thanks for the help sir! But does it work on Windows 11 device?

@@x-coastie so that install is actually legitimate? I was questioning it.

The download link when you buy ISTA only lasts for 30 days. So sorry I cannot help you…

The link is in the description below.

The link provided after purchase expires after 14 days. It’s under $30.00 which even for me is not that expensive.

The software allows for it but I wouldn’t use this video to set it up.

I think it’s under $20. The link they provide expires after 30 days.

All the screenshots I have are in the video. Please start at 12:33. To be honest you cannot skip one single step in this video. Everything is absolutely necessary.

Here you go. www.bimmerdiagnostics.com

I didn’t realize this software was available directly from BMW.

that made it way easier now

Thanks.

Plug in your K+DCAN cable and check the port setting on COM1. Make sure they are correct. Also make sure that the two Config files are correct.

@@x-coastie yes i have checked it but still not werking

@@x-coastie do i have to put psdzdata somewhwre for ista-p or not?

Sorry. The software is over 60GB for all of it. It’s only $45.00.

bimmerdiagnosticsuk@gmail.com

Not sure, but it sure is way too complicated.

@@x-coastie Anyway thank you SOOO mutch :)))

I completely agree. But if you watch other videos they leave stuff out and to me, it’s even more confusing. Mine should be thought of and press play and watch step one, press pause, do the steps on your computer. Press play again and so on till you’re done.

@@x-coastie Thanks for the video brother, we appreciate it.

@@x-coastie I apologize, but I don't see any links to the download in the description

Sorry to hear you’re having an issue. ISTA-P doesn’t install but rather extracts to your computers hard drive. Therefore it’s pretty much already configured. Please make sure you’re using the same cable and that you don’t have a hardware problem.

Also go back and review all the configuration settings we made regarding Ediabas in the video under ISTA-D.

@@x-coastie Hi Coastie, I did only apart from the part where you extracted the two sq files to the remaining 3 creating 5 in total, as I didn’t have them files in my download from bmw diag 🤔

@@x-coastie primitive files that meant 👍

Hi,i have the same problem error codes for ista p.but ista + doesnt have any problem.How we can solve out this problem ?