[Ovmsdev] Nissan Leaf Updates

[Mark Webb-Johnson]

Looks good. The Leaf support has come a long way since that single hacking day back in UK.

Regards, Mark.

> On 29 Aug 2017, at 5:41 PM, Tom Parker <tom at carrott.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've made a few changes to the Nissan Leaf support.
> 
> Configurable battery sizes to support 30kWh batteries. Parameter 21 is now initialized to 281 gids if it doesn't contain a string that parses to an integer. Change this parameter to change how many gids represents 100%. If you have a 30kWh battery you probably want to set it to 363. I discussed options to change the SOC calculation when I first started working on OVMS and Tom Saxton made a convincing argument that OVMS should display the amount of energy remaining in the battery, not how full it is. I'm not planning to push the other options I discussed back then as it turns out he's right, you want to know that when it tells you 60% you have 60% of some fixed amount of energy, not 60% of whatever the car thinks it can do today.
> 
> You'll have to restart the OVMS after changing this parameter for it to take effect.
> 
> Ambient temperature. The value I'm getting isn't quite right, but it's close to the eyebrow dashboard display. Leaf Spy mentions something about a correction in it's change log but I haven't tried to track it down.
> 
> Battery temperature. The BMS sends the battery temperature in a multiplexed field on a regular basis, so no polling is required. I've had battery temperature via polling in my development branch for a while but, on my car at least, this causes a relay to click during charging so I didn't merged it upstream. I did some reverse engineering with a CAN bus man in the middle and discovered how the battery temperature on the dashboard works.
> 
> Remote Climate Control switch off. It turns out at least some Gen 2 cars don't turn off their climate control after you remote start it. They even continue remote climate control after driving the car and then turning it off. Now I send the off command after 15 minutes on battery power and 30 minutes on grid power, or if the car turns on. I've discovered that on Gen 2 and later cars the plugged in detection doesn't work. This isn't hugely surprising because they changed the battery charger between Gen 1 and 2.
> 
> This last change hasn't been merged yet because I only just now sent the pull request.
> 
> I've also found that remote climate control doesn't work at all on 2016 models -- Nissan moved the TCU to the Car CAN bus (it was on the EV CAN bus) and changed the messages.
> 
> Expect an update for 2016 remote climate control and Gen 2 plugged in detection soonish.
> 
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