CAT 3208 monitoring

[davidbrady]

Hey Ned,

Being lazy, I'm all for leveraging what's already available.

Maybe a set of requirements might help hone our thoughts:

1) we need a distributed set of sensors to tap into monitoring points anywhere throughout the motorhome,
2) we need a set of arduinos to collect and pre-process the data from the sensors. Any particular arduino may service more than one sensor,
3) we need a data bus to collect, multiplex, and transmit the pre-processed data to the end-user (could be wire and/or wireless), and
4) we need a display device and graphical user interface that allows users to select and configure gauges, logs, alarms, etc.

Number (3) is near and dear to my heart. I'm thinking unless we use something already available we can spend a ton of time here re-inventing the wheel. If we choose a standard path, then we are open to use off the shelf display devices such as Silverleaf's VMSpc or Ray Davis's RV Techtools Ipad display, and many of the other requirements fall into place. Something like J1587 over J1708 or over Ethernet, or J1939. If the application layer is J1587 or J1939 and the physical and datalink layers are Ethernet, J1708, or J1939 then Silverleaf and Rv Techtools can display it w/o modification.

Canduino:
http://code.google.com/p/canduino/

Gotta run, there's furniture sale in Hickory, NC and my wife's pulling me away!