Using PCAN Basics

[aidanCNI]

Apologies if my question is quite basic but I am new to the use of the PCAN Basics API and PCAN Linux Drivers. I have both installed on my raspberrypi3 but I have no idea how to get the C++ examples running. If anyone could point me to the proper documentation/tutorial that shows this that would be great. Otherwise, step-by-step instructions on what I would need to do to get the C++ examples running (ie. includes, which folders files should be in, etc.) that would be greatly appreciated.

[M.Heidemann]

Hello,


Make sure you have the CharDev version of our driver installed, for this see this forum post:

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=3381

Please follow the steps outlined in the forum post.

Once you have done this you can check via:

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ls /dev

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What name your device has.

In my example i use a PCAN-USB FD, so my device received the name "pcanusbfd32".

change into your "test" dirctory within your driver download package and execute:

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make all

this will compile the necessary files.

You can now call, for example, receivetest like this (directly refering to your device)

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 ./receivetest -f/dev/pcanusbfd32

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Another way use the test-applications is to modify the default node:

change into the directory /test/src/ within your driver download-package, it contains the code for the test-applications.

Open the file you want to use with a text-editor:

Look for this line:

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#define DEFAULT_NODE "/dev/pcan0"

replace the default node "pcan0" with your device name and save the file.

then switch back to the test directory and execute:

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make all

this will build the test-applications on your machine.

to run the test-application you can call it like so:

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./receivetest

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This is also explained in the documentation for our Linux driver package (see chapter 4.7 "test directory"):

http://www.peak-system.com/fileadmin/me ... an_eng.pdf





Best Regards


Marvin