I ended up going with this ELM327 bluetooth reader, mainly because it was available for same day shipping: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LC58TTA/ . Paired it to my one windows device (surface pro 4) and went to town with forscan, as soon as they activated my account so I could get the extended license. Not sure if the extended license was even required, forscan says it's for PATS programming and I didn't even see that section listed for our car.yay! thanks so much OffTheWall503 for bringing all this Sync info to this forum! Now i'm super interested in exploring this more, since I have read about all the fun stuff the Focus folks have figured out with it. They have done things like enable cruise control on cars that didn't come with it, enabling hill start assist on non-ST, disabling the double horn beep when exiting the vehicle while "on", and all window up/down using the keyfob. I'm sure the Fiesta has a different (read: smaller) set of things you can program, but still.