2022-12-21, 10:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 2022-12-22, 01:47 AM by Redline.
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Hi got stuck on this maybe a year ago and gave up.
But this week Ire-formatted my SD card and got the latest headless download of OpenPlotter/Pypilot.
I have one of Seans Motor controllers.
1/ Pi 3b Running Pypilot OpenCPN 3.2.8 ( Pypilot shows 0.36). having to run Pypilot from a Cmd line in this release of OpenCPN
2/ Motor Controller Wiring
1/Red to Pin 17 (+3.3V)
2/Black to Pin 9
3/ Green Pin 8
4/ Blue Pin 10
3/ Uart 0 is enabled ( Blue-tooth is disabled)
4/Ive tried creating an Alias in Serial (for the motor controller) but not sure if its data should be set to NMEA or SignalK or even if I need to set-up an Alias for the motor controller. ?
5/ IF I start from browser its got IMU data from my 9250 IMU, but it always says no motor controller?
6/ Ive tried swapping the rx/tx around but makes no difference. When starting up it shows that UART0 port is detected in Pypilot.
7/ in Signal k there is a ClientID and its assigned to OpenPlotter PYPILOT and has read/write access?
Run out of ideas again on how to get the motor controller to talk to the RPI. I have a 12v Power Supply hooked up to the Motor controller board in case it get its power from the 12v rather than GPIO.
At a loss at what to try next
See output log from pypilot_servo attached
But this week Ire-formatted my SD card and got the latest headless download of OpenPlotter/Pypilot.
I have one of Seans Motor controllers.
1/ Pi 3b Running Pypilot OpenCPN 3.2.8 ( Pypilot shows 0.36). having to run Pypilot from a Cmd line in this release of OpenCPN
2/ Motor Controller Wiring
1/Red to Pin 17 (+3.3V)
2/Black to Pin 9
3/ Green Pin 8
4/ Blue Pin 10
3/ Uart 0 is enabled ( Blue-tooth is disabled)
4/Ive tried creating an Alias in Serial (for the motor controller) but not sure if its data should be set to NMEA or SignalK or even if I need to set-up an Alias for the motor controller. ?
5/ IF I start from browser its got IMU data from my 9250 IMU, but it always says no motor controller?
6/ Ive tried swapping the rx/tx around but makes no difference. When starting up it shows that UART0 port is detected in Pypilot.
7/ in Signal k there is a ClientID and its assigned to OpenPlotter PYPILOT and has read/write access?
Run out of ideas again on how to get the motor controller to talk to the RPI. I have a 12v Power Supply hooked up to the Motor controller board in case it get its power from the 12v rather than GPIO.
At a loss at what to try next
See output log from pypilot_servo attached