G4X and Grayhill CAN Keypad

[pugsparked]

Hello, it will be possible in the G4X to use the Grayhill keypad for Motorsport strategies activations, Boost target or boost levels, cruise control, etc.
Without using PDM or Virtual Aux, Motec has this option with JRR 

Regards!

 

[Adamw]

Yes there are plans for CAN keypad functionality and work has begun on it.  Still some time away though, my best guess is 3-4 months.

[pugsparked]

On 16/7/2020 at 0:20, Adamw said:

Sí, hay planes para la funcionalidad del teclado CAN y se ha comenzado a trabajar en él. Sin embargo, aún falta algo de tiempo, mi mejor conjetura es de 3 a 4 meses.

I have a Grayhill 5x4 opencan, I can test if you need to.  This keyboard with Ecumaster PMU works

[pugsparked]

Some news? I used the Toucan file and I have six CAN Di working with some errors.

 

[pugsparked]

Working properly and neat

 

[Skeeed3r]

On 9/9/2020 at 7:34 PM, pugsparked said:

Working properly and neat

 

without PDM ?

[pugsparked]

19 minutes ago, Skeeed3r said:

sin PDM?

With PDM, on Monday I will test without PDM.  I don't think it works and my CAN BUS level is null.  I've only gotten one function per key and it has three.

 

[Skeeed3r]

On 9/10/2020 at 11:19 PM, pugsparked said:

With PDM, on Monday I will test without PDM.  I don't think it works and my CAN BUS level is null.  I've only gotten one function per key and it has three.

 

and can you test it without PDM?

[pugsparked]

Doing other jobs I did not have time, tomorrow I will try

[pugsparked]

I can't get it to work without PMU, I tried 2 different ID

[pugsparked]

On 7/16/2020 at 12:20 AM, Adamw said:

Yes there are plans for CAN keypad functionality and work has begun on it.  Still some time away though, my best guess is 3-4 months.

Something new?

[aerace_fab]

Also interested in this.

[Adamw]

Unfortunately no closer.  The engineer that was originally working on the function has left so it is waiting for one of the other firmware guys to pick it up.  

[Wildt267]

23 hours ago, Adamw said:

Unfortunately no closer.  The engineer that was originally working on the function has left so it is waiting for one of the other firmware guys to pick it up.  

Thank you very much for the update. I’d like to chime in and say this feature would be greatly appreciated. I’ve got 6 or so switches I thought I’d have spare inputs for but I got a Subaru plug-in g4x so I’d have to hack up my harness which I’d rather not do. The expansion harness wasn’t particularly helpful in my application. Thank you for continually supporting your product. 
 

[dx4picco]

You can look into the ecu master can switch board. I wired that in with 6 switches and 2 rotaries 

It works great. 

All with can

[Adamw]

Another option is this: https://www.micropdm.com/products/p/micropdm

This connects to the Blink keypad and handles all the logic such as toggle/flash/count and the LED's etc.  All the button "outputs" can be sent to the ECU via CAN as well as some of the pins on the relay can be controlled by the buttons too.  

[mapper]

Maybe I'missing something. But with the GP latched inputs, math counter function, Virtual Aux I don't see what couldn't be done?

[Adamw]

Yeah if you know CAN well enough and you have plenty of spare CAN channels and GP outputs spare you will be able to get some basic functionality working.  But it is not enduser freindly for someone that doesnt have a good gasp of CAN.  As you have noticed some functionality has been added in preperation such as CAN DI latches and there has also been things like failsafe/timeout/fault logic added in the background.

You need a wakeup message, heartbeat message, LED message, key message, optionally brightness and back light messages.  From memory in the CANopen versions you can disable the need for wake-up and heartbeat but they are required by default.