[Ovmsdev] Kia Soul EV development

[Mark Webb-Johnson]

Welcome, Geir.

Or, if he hasn't subscribed yet, welcome future Geir.

Mark

> On 1 Nov 2015, at 5:22 PM, Michael Balzer <dexter at expeedo.de> wrote:
> 
> List,
> 
> I'm pleased to introduce the dedicated OVMS Kia Soul developer (he
> should have subscribed by now): please welcome Geir :-)
> 
>> Gesendet: So 1. Nov 2015, 00:32
>> Von: goev_no05
>> An: dexter
>> 
>> Hi Michael!
>> 
>> I've been playing a lot with the code today :D It works quite well,
>> although the VIN is shifted three bytes so I'm missing the first
>> characters. The DEBUG 1 and 5 seem to be off too, but it just seem
>> like they might be off by only one byte. I think so because I can
>> fetch the aux battery voltage from row 4 byte 4, instead of byte 5 as
>> should be expected. This is a little strange as it seems to be the
>> same code as VIN. But I will look into these matters tomorrow!
>> 
>> I've added a lot of new data to your code: In my version I now show
>> the correct SOC (V0.2 shows the BMS SOC which is around 4% lower),
>> Odometer, aux battery voltage, correct charging power (it looks right
>> at least for 230V systems). I'm also setting the charging modes based
>> on the charging power and I copied the Range/Ideal range code from the
>> Twizy and adapted it to the Kia. I think I will copy the CA-setting
>> too, as they seem to be quite useful.
>> 
>> I feel that I have quite a good understanding of the system now, so if
>> you want, I can relieve you from the Kia Soul-development :)
>> 
>> I am also subscribing to the ovms-developer list, so hopefully I don't
>> need to bother you here anymore ;)
>> 
>> Good night, and take care!
>> 
>> Geir
> 
> As the OBD polling support for modes 02, 10 & 21 basically works, I now
> have pushed my latest changes including Kia V0.2 to the main repository.
> 
> The Kia VIN currently needs to be cut by 3 bytes because the car_vin can
> only take 17 chars. As RAM is tight I decided to omit the first three
> chars. There would be space for a 20 bytes car_vin, but then the VIN is
> not that important IMO.
> 
> You're right, the aux battery voltage should be in row 4 byte 5, and
> there is no intended offset, so that might be a bug.
> 
> Glad to have you on board :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
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