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Home automation using CAN bus
I am planning to make a prototype for wired home automation devices, and I am thinking of using CAN bus for communication between nodes and Gateway.
The way I am planning to build it, there is one ...
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Best approach to program a PLC using dbc file? (CAN communication)
I'm pretty new using CAN Communication but I need to program a Phoenix Contact PLC in Structured Text. The PLC should communicate with a motor that uses CANOpen protocol. The only resource I have is ...
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How may I manually construct CAN message for CANopen?
I understand CANopen uses CAN, the difference is usage and message type. I have basic CAN capable device and I want to control industrial motor controller, which uses CANopen.
I have its EDS file, but ...
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Logging CAN bus load over time
I have used CANKing, which displays the bus load in real-time. However, I would like to do some long-term monitoring to see what the load looks like over time.
This site claims to have free software ...
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ID collision on CANOpen SDO
I am working on a remote control module to control my heating boiler remotely. The boiler uses CANOpen 125k.
My module transmits periodically SDO requests to read temperatures and other parameters. ...
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CANOpen SDO block transfer retry if timeouted?
I'm using the CanFestival CANOpen library (https://canfestival.org/) for a PC app that talks to a device via CAN bus. The device is CIA-301 compliant. I'm using SDO block transfers for device firmware ...
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Transmit and receive in PDO for CANopen - Why use transmit channel?
According to CiA 301, there is something called TPDO Mapping and TPDO Communication.
TPDO communication is used for describing ...
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How to find the right components for the CAN bus signals merging?
I have 2 CAN connectors from 2 different devices and I want to design something that takes in both the inputs and gives the output on a single connector. In other words, I want to combine 2 different ...
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