CAT 3208 monitoring

[davidbrady]

Hey Ned,

Same here. It would be ideal if we could work it so that additional front end work would be minimal or better yet, non existent.

Being an engineer, of course I want to find as general a solution as possible. In your case you have no legacy equipment, in my case I have have J1587 over J1708, others may have J1939. So we might constrain you a little so we can better serve mixed enviroments.

Funny you should mention the idea of an arduino CANbus sniffer. I've been thinking the same thing. The CANpod does a lot of things we don't need. If all we want to do is read the bus, heck all we need is a single RS-485 and an 802.11 wireless shield. Since we don't write to the bus then there's no need for a fancy canduino shield.

Yes, I'd like our SANduino (Sensor Area Network using Arduinos) and the CANpod to look like one data stream going into the front end. For this to work, I think the CANpod transport layer needs to be connectionless, unreliable delivery, similar to UDP. So I think the feasibility of this depends on what the CANpod transport protocol looks like.