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The Victron documentation for motor controllers refers to the Oceanvolt "dbus_motordrive" driver. Is this part of the standard Venus distribution or do we have to make our own build to add that driver?
We are interfacing a Curtis motor-controller and hope to just reprogram that to emulate the Sevcon (which appears to use the standard CanOpen format).
Failing that I assume the best option is to write our own Python driver.
Thanks in advance
AFAIK not, because WHY should the VenusOS have a motor driver?
Do you use the Curtis Instruments Controller with a mover for Solarpanels?
I have some of the 24V/40A controller laying around and also some very strong garage door motors. While the direction of my Solarpanels are fixed, I like to adjust the angle automatically depending on the sun and also the wind load.
No - this is for an electric boat. We plan to write a Curtis driver for electric boats (and will make it available for others), not sure how applicable it will be for others as there seems to be a lot of variation in their controllers. Hopefully have something in a month or two.
Interesting project...
Hi @IainSommerville, just stumbled across another thread on the same topic, which includes a link to dbus_motordrive by Oceanvolt. There's a service called `dbus-motordrive` included in the standard VenusOS distribution, although I cannot say if it's actually this one: https://bitbucket.org/oceanvolt/dbus_motordrive/src/master/src/
Maybe this piece of information will help you, anyways.
