Comments for Automon

Comment on QT and QExtSerialPort by Mark Mikaelsen

Mark Mikaelsen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:12:57 +0000

I can see it didnt get the “HEADERS += qextserialport.h” in my previous post. It is included.

Comment on QT and QExtSerialPort by Mark Mikaelsen

Mark Mikaelsen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:09:58 +0000

Hi
Im very new with Qt so appologies if this is a newbie question

I tried out implementing the “test.pro” (in my case called SerialTest.pro) with your code and the newest version (feb 7 2010) of QextSerialPort from http://code.google.com/p/qextserialport however when i compile the project i get the error
“c:\QtTutorial1\SerialTest\SerialTest\SerialTest.pro:14: Parse Error (‘QWT_DLL QT_DLL’)”

First off, the QextSerialPort lib compiled just fine and I have placed the lib and dll files correctly, so no problem there.

my main file looks like this:

INCLUDEPATH += C:/QtTutorial1/SerialTest/SerialTest
QMAKE_LIBDIR += C:/QtTutorial1/SerialTest/SerialTest/build

LIBS += -lqextserialport

unix:DEFINES = _TTY_POSIX_
win32:DEFINES = _TTY_WIN_ \

QWT_DLL \
QT_DLL

QT -= gui
TARGET = SerialTest
CONFIG += console
CONFIG -= app_bundle
TEMPLATE = app
SOURCES += main.cpp
HEADERS +=

Hope you can spot the error.

Comment on QT and QExtSerialPort by Donal

Donal — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:31:56 +0000

Hi,

Sounds like it cannot find QextSerial port.

Have you something like this in your QMake pro file:

INCLUDEPATH += path/to/qextserialport/includedir/
QMAKE_LIBDIR += path/to/qextserialport/build
LIBS += -Lpath/to/qextserialport/build/ \
-lqextserialport

Then in your file:

#include “qextserialport.h”

Make sure the .a file is in the build output after you’ve built the QExtSerial port library.

Hope that helps

Comment on QT and QExtSerialPort by Dmitriy

Dmitriy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:23:45 +0000

the show of problem starts here:
port = new QextSerialPort(“/dev/ttyS0″);

error message:
/home/dmitriys/QTprojects/VMS_linux/Linux_VMS_App/vms.cpp:46: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct QextSerialPort’

Comment on QT and QExtSerialPort by Donal

Donal — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:36:43 +0000

Hey There,

I got this working on Linux using /dev/ttyS0 no problem. What problem are you having? I think it compiled straight out of the box after downloading Qextserialport.

Thanks,
Donal

Comment on QT and QExtSerialPort by Dmitriy

Dmitriy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:34:00 +0000

Appreciated for this article. I started to work with QT creator not to long ago, to develop GUI test application for my embedded devices while communicating trough the serial port.
The application work fine using QextSerialPort under windows os. I am looking for example that would compile and work under Linux (Slackware) using serial port (/dev/ttyS0).
including the QextSerialport.h file as in windows will not compile under Linux platform.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

Comment on Not Finished Yet! – Moving to EABI by Donal

Donal — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:21:08 +0000

Brett, how’s it going.

I’d be very interested talking to you about something like that as I want to get into the car electronics. Unfort I’m gone doing a PhD in localisation now so time is scarce but if you have a good proposal then I’d be interested hearing.

I wanted to continue automon as a DIY project for people. Maybe sell a Kit or something.

Please email me on donaloconnor at gmail.com and we can discuss further.

Comment on Not Finished Yet! – Moving to EABI by BrettB

BrettB — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:51:42 +0000

Donal,
Boy am I glad I found your blog. I arrived at the same solutions for a very similar project, specifically, I’m going to use the TS-7390 and Qt Embedded to build a dashboard for an Electric car. I just received my board last week and I’ve been banging my head against the EABI/OABI issue. I’d be very interested in helping with your project if only to figure out some stuff for mine. I don’t know what your plans are for automon (really cool, by the way) but maybe you would like to extend it for the Do-It-Yourself Electric car space? If so, I would love to talk to you about it.

Thanks,
Brett.

Comment on Cross Compiled QT Embedded – Step by Step by kirk

kirk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:28:52 +0000

thank for your quick reply as u know it is really a pain to stuck in the middle of it. So let me cut the words short

1. As I said my final target is the arm board and I used qt-4.5.2(qtsdk-2009.03) to develop..am i using the wrong version since my idea is to develop with 4.5 first and then cross compile to qtopia-core-4.3.3-arm..

2. why there is an error as I mentioned last message that when compiling qextserialport in 4.3.3 since it worked fine in qt 4.5.

Regards,
Kirk

Comment on Cross Compiled QT Embedded – Step by Step by Donal

Donal — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:07:26 +0000

Don’t use Qtopia, that’s for phones and discont presently as far as I know. Everything is qt embedded now.

You must download the QT embedded source and build it with the GCC 3 compiler. It’s not too old, it should work.

Time is very limited for me at moment but if you have specific problems let me know and I can try help.

Comment on Cross Compiled QT Embedded – Step by Step by kirk

kirk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:27:20 +0000

Hello Donal,

I have exactly same feeling with you of the whole process. I have many questions to ask you and really hope you can help since your development progress was very similiar to mine. I used qt 4.5.2 to develop my app. with qextserialport class in linux pc and now really wanted to move it to arm-linux.

1. Which qt-embedded version you suggest I used? or qtopia-core version?
2. I already installed cross compiler 3.3.6-glibc-2.3.2. Is it too old for my app.?
3. now when I compile the qextserialport class with qtopia-4.3.3 qmake, error came out …”build/obj/qextserialbase.o: could not read symbols: File in wrong format” .do u have any idea?
4. If i can talk to you on gmail, that would be good.

Regards,
Kirk

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by Qasim

Qasim — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:49 +0000

hi thanx for ur response admin
actually i am working for asian cars like honda toyota and hyundai suzuki etc
i need a simulator for can, iso9141-2 etc
ya i checked out “EOBD & OBDII ECU simulators”
at http://www.ozenelektronik.com/
i m from pakistan can u please tell me the price including the shipment charges

thanx…

Comment on Next steps, building Automon GUI application by Donal

Donal — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:58:25 +0000

Hi, the above is just an image created by photoshop.

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by Donal

Donal — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:57:37 +0000

Hi,

These boards take a standard DC input. I baught a transformer locally and that done fine.

Thanks

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by admin@sinautoscan.com

admin@sinautoscan.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:38:25 +0000

Did you consider my offer?

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by admin@sinautoscan.com

admin@sinautoscan.com — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:16:59 +0000

A Real-Time Engine Simulator for Ecu Development and Testing.

The simulators from http://www.ozenelektronik.com/ come configure for Europe so the power supply needs some modification i can provide you one for a good price.

http://sinautoscan.com/page12.php

Comment on Next steps, building Automon GUI application by Joao Weinholtz

Joao Weinholtz — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:18:00 +0000

Greetings, i’m also starting to develop a GUI, but first i’ll need to present a mockup. Would you be so kind to tell me which software you used to present the above GUI draft?

Thx

Comment on Not Finished Yet! – Moving to EABI by patrick

patrick — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:04:47 +0000

Great work. My application is also working great. I am also investigating media (mostly sound). All the best.

Patrick

Comment on QT and QExtSerialPort by Vinay M

Vinay M — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:15:28 +0000

I’m new to Qt, Now I want to build a GUI for serial port communication and use the serial PORT which is available on my board. Plz can you suggest me, How to communicate with serial port>……..

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by Qasim

Qasim — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:16:08 +0000

oh thanx for your reply….well i m actually developing a kit for obd2
and my aim to use the elm327 with the touch screen interface using atmegs32 controller not the embedded programming
can u please suggest me a development environment on which i can work easily and can get a help either

like there are some aurdino etc

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by Donal

Donal — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:10:47 +0000

I never bothered with the Ecu emulator. It doesn’t work very well. You better off getting a hardware based simulator for about 100 euro and use that as you can vary speed/MAF/coolant temp etc using onboard knobs and you can have a MIL and diagnostic codes on board.

The ECU Emu software requires a null modem cable between a serial port and another serial port of another PC or loop around into another serial port on same computer. It never worked very good for me anyways so I gave up wasting time with it.

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by Qasim

Qasim — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:05:52 +0000

hi , i am actually not getting u ..
the software i.e ecu emulator
does this software act as the virtual ecu of the car?

or its sumthing else??

actually i am doing the same project

n i need a software that can act as a virtual ecu of the car

cause i cant test my code with car again n again

plese help me

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by Donal

Donal — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:26:28 +0000

Hi,

I never did. I used a ECU simulator from these guys: http://www.ozenelektronik.com/ – and then I used the ElmScan hooked directly up to the car when I did proper testing.testing

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by Qasim

Qasim — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:39:31 +0000

hi, can u please tell me how did u connected the elm327 circuit with laptop
i mean it needs the 16v from the car battery how did u managed tht please help …

Comment on Installing TSLib and Calibrating it by Vinay

Vinay — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:07:14 +0000

Im Working ARM board i.mx31. i have ts_calibrate on board itself. But now i want to use this touch screen for my GUI built by Qt embedded, When execute ts_calibrate it shows window with small buttons DRAG and DRAW. when touch screen it shows the co ordinates on PC of my TS.but when i run my application cursor wont move at all. Cursor will be on left top. Im not able to pass input from this TS.i ave downloaded TSLIB-1.0 lib and compiled acc ARM compiler. Now im not able to activate TouchScreen

Comment on Final Year Project Report Complete by wow gold

wow gold — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:38:26 +0000

This is a great post and makes me think of where I can fit in. I do a little bit of everything mentioned here and I guess I have to find my competitive advantage.

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by Donal

Donal — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:33:05 +0000

Hi Mike,

Thanks very much. However I did not find the software very useful and decided to order a proper ECU simulator from http://www.ozenelektronik.com – Well worth the money!

Maybe it might suit you too.

I’ll read more into your blog soon. It looks very interesting.

Cheers

Comment on In search of an ECU emulator by Mike

Mike — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:28:10 +0000

Dropping in to say thanks! I’ve been looking for something similar, I ran across the emulator but you gave a good explanation (how to, if you will) on setting it up.

I had the same predicament, standalone ECU or emulator. Now with this software and your nullmodem solution I’ll be able to start with the emulator and maybe move to the ECU later.

Check out my site for my project!

Comment on Automon mentioned on Scantool.net by Donal

Donal — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:58:52 +0000

Hi Patrick,

That’s good news. Strange alright, but I did have the same problem myself. Think I just resorted to this solution as well as I had it backed up

Enjoy.

Donal

Comment on Automon mentioned on Scantool.net by patrick

patrick — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:53:35 +0000

Hi Donal,

Thank you very much. Your library worked very well.
I just wonder why my compilation didn’t work. maybe it was from a different version.

Regards,

Patrick