2016-07-26, 01:16 PM
Hello Members.
I have been using OP for a few months and playing around with all its functions. Very impressed with the stability and ease of use.
I was going through some of the threats and noticed the same request that I was wondering about; Interfacing to the engine.
Instead of trying to adapt to existing sensors, I was thinking to add additional sensors to my engine. This was I can keep my old (40 year old) analog gauges and add a complete independent monitoring system.
I happen to have a perfect solution already ready for this. For one of my other projects (eosweather.ca) I developed a PCB to get sensor data from weather sensors. This board can be used for Engine sensors (temp, pressure, rpm's etc) as well. All sensors would be 0-5VDc or 4-20mA. After collecting the analog data, the PIC microcontroller can send an NMEA data string to the OP!
The nice thing about this PCB is that it fits directly onto the GPIO connector of a RPI!
I will start getting some sensors and over the next few months will make this work.
Does anyone have the NMEA0183 data string for engine data. I found $--RPM but that only contains RPM data...
Also, it would be nice to have some gauges to display the data
Thanks
Henk
I have been using OP for a few months and playing around with all its functions. Very impressed with the stability and ease of use.
I was going through some of the threats and noticed the same request that I was wondering about; Interfacing to the engine.
Instead of trying to adapt to existing sensors, I was thinking to add additional sensors to my engine. This was I can keep my old (40 year old) analog gauges and add a complete independent monitoring system.
I happen to have a perfect solution already ready for this. For one of my other projects (eosweather.ca) I developed a PCB to get sensor data from weather sensors. This board can be used for Engine sensors (temp, pressure, rpm's etc) as well. All sensors would be 0-5VDc or 4-20mA. After collecting the analog data, the PIC microcontroller can send an NMEA data string to the OP!
The nice thing about this PCB is that it fits directly onto the GPIO connector of a RPI!
I will start getting some sensors and over the next few months will make this work.
Does anyone have the NMEA0183 data string for engine data. I found $--RPM but that only contains RPM data...
Also, it would be nice to have some gauges to display the data
Thanks
Henk