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sanchosk / ZoeELM2MQTT

Translation tool from ELM bluetooth dongle connected to OBD2 port in the car to MQTT server for HomeAssistant

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Beginners Questions #6

Open TheSmartGerman opened 8 months ago

TheSmartGerman commented 8 months ago

Hello @sanchosk, i found your repositorie by searching a solution to get my old Kangoo ZE (2013) "online". I first i found this: https://github.com/fesch/CanZE/issues/752

For a better understanding:

Your code connects to a BT Dongle
Your translate the AT commands and sends it to a mqtt brocker
Can the Cansee dongle also work with your code?
You just implementet a few AT commands, but it would be also possible to add cell voltages or anything else?

THX

micha53 commented 3 days ago

Hello @sanchosk, I append a beginners Question: You write in the readme to edit the secrets.h file. But where do I find this file. It is not part of the project. And if it is to generate, how is the syntax? THX

sanchosk commented 3 days ago

Stupid me - I completely missed the fact that on latest pull I removed the file by accident. I re-uploaded empty one. The content is

const char* ssid = "";
const char* password = "";
const char* mqtt_server = "";
const char* mqtt_user = "";
const char* mqtt_pass = "";

and I guess it's self-explanatory. Enjoy!

sanchosk commented 3 days ago

Your understanding is correct - I connect to the ELM327, that one uses AT commands to communicate over CAN bus.

* Can the Cansee dongle also work with your code?
No idea :( Never had one, so cannot confirm nor deny.
* You just implementet a few AT commands, but it would be also possible to add cell voltages or anything else?
There is a LOT more can bus IDs available on CanZE project documentation. This was just sufficient for me, but in general any of the codes there on their page can be added to the code.