[Ovmsdev] Gas vs. battery metric?

[Michael Balzer]

My 2 cents:

We shouldn't generally exclude alternative propulsion technologies.
Battery based electric propulsion will cover the majority of future
transportation and mobility, but it won't fit every use case and every
kind of vehicle.

We should keep the core support to be for (battery) electric propulsion,
and add support for alternative technologies on a strict add-on base.

If for example a vehicle has a hydrogen based range extender, that
should be signaled by the vehicle adapter, and the system should only
then add the set of standard metrics for this particular technology.

A metric "v.m.gas" would be confusing (what kind of gas? what kind of
energy conversion?), would favorize a specific technology by it's name,
and would not be sufficient to describe arbitrary combinations of
technologies (e.g. a BEV with rocket thrusters…).

How about adding an array or set metric like "v.ext" or "v.tech", for
defined technology codes. A tag present in the metric means the
additional metrics, commands & configs for that technology are available.

Regards,
Michael


13.06.20 um 07:57 schrieb Chris van der Meijden:
> Hi Craig,
>
> I think this question could be thin ice :-)
>
> We could start a highly political and emotional discussion on this.
> Question is, do we want to support fossil fuel burning technology, or
> do we want to make the statement, that the burning stuff aera is over
> and if you want to use cool technology like OVMS, then come into the
> future and buy an electric vehicle?
>
> Now I'm definitly aware that there will be various different points of
> view on this topic and that it is a hot topic. It is easy to drift
> into arguing about how political or not OVMS should or could be and
> political discussions in a large community mostly leed to emotional
> discussions.
>
> I would like to go the way Robert Llewellyn (Youtube channel
> Fullycharged) went, when he started to disagree with Johnny Smith on
> wether to test hybrids on the channel or not. Robert decided not to do
> so, because that would be the wrong signal to the viewers. But that
> decission went to the point that Johnny left the show. So, as I said,
> these discussions can be thin ice :-)
>
> I'm interested to see where we will be going on this.
>
> Greetinx
>
> Chris
>
> Am Freitag, den 12.06.2020, 16:09 -0700 schrieb Craig Leres:
>> I'd like to add a boolean metric for gas vehicles as a prelude to the
>> phone apps having this info. Would this be ok?
>>
>>     #define MS_V_MOT_GAS "v.m.gas"
>>
>>     ms_v_mot_gas = new OvmsMetricBool(MS_V_MOT_GAS);
>>
>> The default to false. The other way would be via OvmsMetricInt and an
>> enum (or defines):
>>
>>     typedef enum : uint8_t
>>       {
>>       Battery = 0,
>>       Gasoline = 1,
>>     } metric_vehicle_t;
>>
>>     #define MS_V_MOT_TYPE "v.m.type"
>>
>>     ms_v_mot_type = new OvmsMetricInt(MS_V_MOT_TYPE);
>>
>> which would allow for more than two types.
>>
>> 		Craig
>> _______________________________________________
>> OvmsDev mailing list
>> OvmsDev at lists.openvehicles.com <mailto:OvmsDev at lists.openvehicles.com>
>> http://lists.openvehicles.com/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev
>
> _______________________________________________
> OvmsDev mailing list
> OvmsDev at lists.openvehicles.com
> http://lists.openvehicles.com/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev

-- 
Michael Balzer * Helkenberger Weg 9 * D-58256 Ennepetal
Fon 02333 / 833 5735 * Handy 0176 / 206 989 26

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openvehicles.com/pipermail/ovmsdev/attachments/20200613/801c0748/attachment-0001.html>