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IMPORTANT: enter the case-INsensitive alphabetic (no numbers) code AND WRITE SOME SHORT summary of changes (below) if you are saving changes. (not required for previewing changes). Wiki-spamming is not tolerated, will be removed, so it does NOT even show up in history. Spammers go away now. Visit Preferences to set your user name Summary of change: target is to use orange pi board to read vems data for realtime data over ser2net or dataloging trigger frame stream to vemslog format saved to filesystem (SD, or /dev/shm tmpfs, or network filesystem, or SSD, or rust). '''Experimental binaries (primary target: armhf or occasionally unsupported aarch64/x86/x86_64 or amd64)''' http://vems.hu/download/arm/orangepi_main/ * [http://vems.hu/download/arm/orangepi_main/OrangeVemslog.x86 OrangeVemslog.x86] ** tested OK. Very good vemslog, VemsTune likes it a lot * [http://vems.hu/download/arm/orangepi_main/OrangeVemslog.armhf OrangeVemslog.armhf] ** stack smashing fixed. Please run is as a ---- '''Sw Environment''' * If VT is connected (via serial port or ser2net), multiple (remote or local) VemsTune can be connected, see VemsTuneMulticast * if VT is NOT connected, and no other program keeps the serial port open, orangepi_main (need to find a better name) can query runtime data and log to filesystem ** ser2net theoretically closes the serial port if TCP connection closes, but if in doubt, stop ser2net (fuser /dev/ttyS0 ... can be useful) ---- current board: Orange pi lite (H3, armhf) OS Armbian Ubuntu Desktop : https://www.armbian.com/download/ to connect it to vems we '''need to have serial port on the board''', it has some UARTS but they are ttl level, so we need some max232 interface. using one like [http://www.dx.com/p/rs232-to-ttl-serial-communications-module-w-indicator-blue-black-221240#.WVLg6GiGNdg that] [http://www.cnx-software.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Orange_Pi_2_GPIO_Pinout.png connect UART3] to get it working we need to [https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/1524-orange-pi-one-how-to-enable-uart/ change orange configuration] best way to test it is to download minicom and try to capture some aim data from vems serial port, in my case i had to swap rx and tx wires on serial cable which connects between vems and raspberry. both ends of the cable are female gender. at the moment I'm using orange to have wireless connection for the ecu on test bench using ser2net config file is located in /etc/ser2net.conf and has line 4400:raw:1000:/dev/ttyS3:19200 8DATABITS NONE 1STOPBIT banner ---- '''/etc/fstab''' * The achilles heel of an embedded system is the SD-card ** setup fstab and write to separate partition, not to boot or root fs ** in the end, make root ro is best (might need some tests, but after that the system lifetime might be tripled). http://vems.hu/download/arm/orangepi_main/ * tune2fs -l /dev/sda5 | grep 'Last write time' ** Last write time: Sun Jul 9 15:30:23 2017 ** date -s ... could be done according to that, to have monotonous time after reboots (without RTC, and even if NTP servers not reachable) ** (possibly also considering Lifetime writes) ---- '''Test simple built binary, linking and serial port''' * download from http://vems.hu/download/arm/orangepi_main/ and unzip if necessary * chmod +x OrangeVemslog.* * see Checklist below if needed (skip if all goes well) * OrangeVemslog.armhf /dev/ttyS0 | tee /dev/shm/dummy ** It opens specified serial ports at 19200 baud, and reads data received and prints to outputfile * '''.armhf Binary built on xenial armhf (32bit) orangepi H3 pc-plus''' ** similar to orangepi-PC or zero or lite: zero or lite have builtin wifi, and might be perfect to log and send data over mobile-net. * orangepi_main: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=c2f3c15e6c7d2d228dc4a638bb205d1ae6dd15c0, not stripped in hex * ldd orangepi_main ** libc.so.6 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6 (0xb6eaa000) ** /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 (0xb6f96000) * might also run on 32bit armhf Debian jessie, or even buildroot, or possibly 32bit raspberry (not a target currently, devels use and have all kinds of orangepi-s but only 64 bit raspberry) * easy to build on aarch64 orangepi pc2 if necessary (although gigabit ethernet is hardly necessary in a vehicle logger/network proxy device), and no other advantage apparently. ---- '''Historical Tests''' * test0, got data moving without erors, uploaded results file: https://www.sendspace.com/file/5h7oiy ---- * armhf or aarch64 are the "usual" (Linux GNU) arm binaries * x86 or x86_64 are what they sound. * Unzip if necessary, chmod +x * * ldd binary_program ** shows .so shared object ("dll") dependencies except if binary is for another architecture. Some NOT_FOUND means library not present (although currently only using the most basic libraries): ** linux-gate.so.1 ** libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 ** /lib/ld-linux.so.2 * id ; ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 ; do '''we''' have '''group read/write permission to the device ?''' ./OrangeVemslog.armhf /dev/ttyUSB0 > /tmp/err 2>&1 '''zip the err file (and the NOSERIAL-2017.07.09-14.25.24.vemslog) before uploading for any report.''' * The filename currently has proper UTC timestamp ** which avoids anomalies related to daylight saving and comparison of timestamps captured with different timezone settings. * v3 serial number (v3.3u_......) instead of NOSERIAL means ECU serialnr is properly queried and saved ---- '''Checklist''' - useful initally for review / debug / inspection or for curious geeks. Not needed if/when all goes perfectly. * date ... check the time, use date -s ... if dummy (happens when neither ntp, neither RTC is available) ** TODO: some script called from linux rc.local could make sure timestamps are at least monotonous (later means later) ... eg based on tune2fs -l '''Sniff the serial stream: PC to v3 direction is used to query data with TF commands (HDLC-7D-7E escaped and 7E between frames)''' '''TF command to query runtime data is A0''', it appears regularly (as '''a0 bf 38, see below''') TF Commands used to query ECU config pages: <PRE> marcell@mini:/svn/stm32/orangepi_fat$ grep TF2 /tmp/err | sort TF2: 00 f4 TF2: 01 f4 TF2: 02 f4 TF2: 03 f4 TF2: 04 f4 TF2: 06 f4 TF2: 07 f4 TF2: 08 f4 TF2: 0a f4 TF2: 0c f4 TF2: 0d f4 TF2: 0e f4 TF2: 0f f4 TF2: 11 f4 TF2: 02 f2 TF2: 03 f2 TF2: 04 f2 TF2: 05 f2 Or the complete hex stream: 000022f0: 17 7e ff 00 f4 40 77 7e ff 02 f4 41 17 7e ff 04 00002300: f4 42 b7 7e ff 0f f4 45 87 7e ff 03 f4 40 87 7e 00002310: ff 0c f4 45 77 7e ff 0d f4 44 e7 7e ff 11 f4 4c 00002320: 27 7e ff 06 f4 43 d7 7e ff 07 f4 42 47 7e a0 bf 00002330: 38 7e a0 bf 38 7e a0 bf 38 7e a0 bf 38 7e a0 bf 00002340: 38 7e a0 bf 38 7e a0 bf 38 7e a0 bf 38 7e a0 bf 00002350: 38 7e a0 bf 38 7e a0 bf 38 7e a0 bf 38 7e a0 bf </PRE> Inspecting the vemslog file saved to filesystem: ''hexdump -C NOSERIAL-2017.07.09-16.30.49.vemslog |less'' ----- '''More testing''' it works on /dev/ttyUSB0 (or /dev/ttyS3 if available for rw) * 2017-07-10 generated logs, but I cant open them on the laptop ** https://www.sendspace.com/file/i6x83l log and error file in rar ** test newest fresh download, with ser2net STOPPED ** indeed, logs will be useless (if generated at all) if ser2net (or other program) keeps the serial port open. Close VT (or disconnect), and allow exclusive access to serial port (unix device, and VEMS ECU 1st serial port) ** also: download fresh .armhf binary ----- '''Stack smashing on armhf''' - fixed root@orangepilite:/mnt/logger# ./orangepi_main.armhf /dev/ttyUSB0 > /tmp/err 2>&1 ----- so I have tested it for a few days playing with it and so on. not really want to work over internal uart's, with external usb no problem. managed to write small script which checks is the OrangeLogger working and if not it will try to start it again. added it to crontab so it works nice now and checks for that every minute. made vemstune to connect to ecu over the vpn with help of ser2net, if I try to connect with it over internal network, no problem, it just breaks logging process and I'm online, if i try that over vpn ip's sadly cant connect until I stop logging process :) the only issue now is that after it boots up, start's to log, it works just fine, if it crashes it get's autorestart and so on. problem is when I try to connect to ecu with vemstune over ser2net, it interrupts the logging process and it wont resume after I disconect from ecu, it just writes huge amount on error messages into the log file (500689) IDLE: ecu not responding, likely OFFLINE (504201) IDLE: ecu not responding, likely OFFLINE rebooting ecu does not help for it to start working again, restarting process does. as I understand when the process starts it execute some special command to query the data from the ecu and later are not using that again. anyway if that gets working it will break ser2net process if I'm online, thinking about the solution how to manage 2 apps using same serial port :) btw, if I switch power off for ecu and later start it again OrangeLogger understands it and no problem creates new log file for it thinking that it needs somekind of com port mirroring to get working with 2 devices Optional: Add document to category: Wiki formatting: * is Bullet list ** Bullet list subentry ... 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