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CANaconda project: CAN message viewer
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I get no output from my radar at all #87

Closed koenlek closed 9 years ago

koenlek commented 9 years ago

Hi all,

I have the CANUSB +# v997 adapter by Lawicel and I am trying to read the output of an ARS 309-2 radar. Using CANaconda, I run ./CANaconda.py -p /dev/ttyUSB0 --canbaud 500k -m metadata/koentest.xml

Where koentest has a proper message definition in it, which all seems to work fine. Unfortunately, CANaconda doesn't show any output at all, even no raw output.

Is there any way I can verify that my adapter / setup is working at all? cat -v < /dev/ttyUSB0 doesn't output anything at all. Whereas it is supposed to output a bunch of crap at least I belief?

I did not install the Lawicel drivers, as I don't think ubuntu 14.04 supports the none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=0666 0 0 line that you should put in /etc/fstab. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Using sudo lsmod | grep ftdi shows that ftdi_sio and usbserial are loaded. They unload if I disconnect. I didn't install any special drivers. And I am sure that /dev/ttyUSB0 is the right device and that I am using the right baudrate.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Update: I noticed that the ARS 309-2 uses CANopen, might that be the issue?

koenlek commented 9 years ago

Found it! I did not yet install can-utils yet! Now everything is working!

Susurrus commented 9 years ago

If you have your koentest.xml defining enough messages for the radar to be usable, go ahead and submit a PR for it. If it's well-documented, we'd be happy to include it in the mainline metadata folder. Should make it easier on you once you have those messages all defined.