[Ovmsdev] Nissan Leaf breaking changes

[Mark Webb-Johnson]

Try listening for a clicking noise from the front motor compartment while you are polling the EV bus and the car is asleep.

If you really want to use the CAR can bus, then I suggest you use a different vehicle type.

Regards, Mark.

> On 22 Jun, 2015, at 9:52 pm, Nikolay Shishkov <nshishkov at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the answer Mark, 
> 
> I was not able to "wake-up" the car with polling on the CAR CAN bus. It was late though, so I need to repeat that test to be sure. 
> Or maybe I am mixing it up with the E-UP...
> 
> I think the reason for this was that I did not find a way to request the odometer. 
> 
> So if I want to keep and submit my code - should I make a new vehicle?
> 
> Nikolay
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, June 22, 2015 3:15 PM, Mark Webb-Johnson <mark at webb-johnson.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> There are a handful of people I have heard from using the Leaf code, but I don’t know of anyone developing for it at the moment.
> 
> There was a lot of discussion a year or so ago about which can bus to work from on the Leaf. Consensus was the EV bus. From my memory, the reasons were:
> 
> We can use passive listening to see if the car is charging, driving or sleeping.
> Active polling is bi-directional, but if car is sleeping, polling causes vehicle to use a 12V solenoid to power up a controller each time, and we are worried about wear-and-tear as well as 12V battery consumption for those components.
> The EV bus has lots of stuff available on it.
> 
> A search for Nissan Leaf in the archives would probably bring up all the gory details.
> 
> Regards, Mark.
> 
>> On 22 Jun, 2015, at 4:20 pm, Nikolay Shishkov <nshishkov at yahoo.com <mailto:nshishkov at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> For my project I have changed the Nissan Leaf code to support connection with normal OBD cable. 
>> There are still some bugs to sort out but the code seems to function. 
>> This is a breaking change for those that use the special OBD cable for Nissan Leaf, and I am wondering if I should branch this off as a separate vehicle file? A "CAR CAN Nissan Leaf" instead of the "EV CAN Nissan Leaf"?
>> 
>> Is anyone using the current Nissan Leaf code?
>> 
>> Nikolay
>> _______________________________________________
>> OvmsDev mailing list
>> OvmsDev at lists.teslaclub.hk <mailto:OvmsDev at lists.teslaclub.hk>
>> http://lists.teslaclub.hk/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> OvmsDev mailing list
> OvmsDev at lists.teslaclub.hk <mailto:OvmsDev at lists.teslaclub.hk>
> http://lists.teslaclub.hk/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev <http://lists.teslaclub.hk/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev>
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> OvmsDev mailing list
> OvmsDev at lists.teslaclub.hk
> http://lists.teslaclub.hk/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openvehicles.com/pipermail/ovmsdev/attachments/20150622/e7c915bb/attachment.htm>