Originally Posted by
Snowblind
If so I may try to see if I could get it to report temp and pack voltage.
We must find a way to pack this data in the packet sent to the decoder. Right now I think this information is in what Howard called the 'status' packets, sent every 3 'transponder ID' packets.
We can go with a similar schema but beware that CANO protocol to the PC does not support voltage/temperature or number of hits report.
This might need implementing a different (or an alternative) protocol to the serial port.
Also I think that temperature of the transponder is quite useless, and since it's nowhere close to the motor temperature which is the important one. Also the voltage, being powered with the bec, is always around 6v regardless of the actual battery voltage. Maybe we should connect directly to the battery, and have a temp probe to mount on the motor. The problem is that right now the pic has just 1 pin free...which is also a 'reduced pin' in capabilities (see the datasheets)