Reid’s Status Report for 3/27

This week I was working on my end of the project, connecting the OBDII port to the RaspberryPi. I am very close to seeing data on the RaspberryPi end. I set up a temporary lab in my partner’s garage with the OBDII wire going from my car to a desktop connected to the Raspberry Pi.  I put in an order for a DB9 extension cord to make the environment easier to work in. While working with the PiCan2 documentation and library I ran into an issue where the Bitbucket link was expired so I emailed the inventor of the PiCan, Sukkin Pang, and he was very gracious and was able to send updated instructions. At the end of the week I was able to receive certain CAN messages once I started my car but the stream was not constant, and figured out that the issue was a missing soldered link to the 120 Ohm resistor on the PiCan. I visited TechSpark today to find pins for the board but couldn’t find any suitable pins for soldering, so I placed an order for the correct ones and will solder this week. The code looks to be working well with two threads for TX and RX but I will need to see more data to find the non-standard PIDs for steering wheel angle.