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BMS Can and VE.Can on Cerbo GX

Having a few Can Bus issues with my Cerbo GX on both 2.62 Beta and 2.70 Beta.

The BMS Can Port is set to Can-bus BMS (500kbits) and the network screen shows

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Command line does not show a can1 port...

root@einstein:~# dmesg | grep can

[ 3.378239] sun4i_can 1c2bc00.can: device registered (base=(ptrval), irq=60)

[ 34.800622] can: controller area network core (rev 20170425 abi 9)

[ 34.822224] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): can0: link is not ready

[ 34.832059] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): can0: link becomes ready

[ 35.296992] can: raw protocol (rev 20170425)



and

root@einstein:~# ifconfig can1

ifconfig: can1: error fetching interface information: Device not found



do I have a hardware issue, software issue?
cerbo gxVenus OS
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Stefanie (Victron Energy Staff) avatar image Stefanie (Victron Energy Staff) ♦♦ commented ·

What do you have connected to the BMS.Can port?

What is the output of 'ip link show' ?

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bathnm avatar image bathnm Stefanie (Victron Energy Staff) ♦♦ commented ·

It is not shown. The system does not detect it. I think I have a hardware issue. It appeared briefly during today and has gone again.

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000

link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,DYNAMIC,UP> mtu 1450 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000

link/ether 02:44:05:42:91:9d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

3: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 100

link/can

4: wifi0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,DYNAMIC,UP> mtu 1450 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000

link/ether 28:ed:e0:2c:ef:fa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

5: disabled-wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1450 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000

link/ether ac:5d:5c:c6:cd:80 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

6: ap0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1450 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000

link/ether ae:5d:5c:c6:cd:80 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

7: ll-eth0@eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1450 qdisc noqueue state LOWERLAYERDOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000

link/ether ce:dd:b4:ec:94:d9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

8: ppp0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 3

link/ppp

9: tun0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 100

link/none


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Stefanie (Victron Energy Staff) avatar image Stefanie (Victron Energy Staff) ♦♦ bathnm commented ·

Too bad.

I'm running the 2.70 beta as well, but no problems with that port. Guess you tried rebooting. I don't know of any troubleshooting except what's under debugging here: https://github.com/victronenergy/venus/wiki/canbus#debugging. But doesn't make sense when the port doesn't show up.So maybe time to have it replaced under warranty.

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mvader (Victron Energy) answered ·

Hey @Bathnm strange to have a hardware failure on that, but then again - nothing is impossible.


I recommend contacting your dealer. Apologies for the trouble

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bathnm avatar image bathnm commented ·

@mvader (Victron Energy), I have had both my original unit and the RMA unit start working again. I have not had a chance to dig any further, but the only think to change was taking them both back to 2.6x images. I was on the boat today and it worked happily. At some stage I will take it back to 2.70 and see what happens. Maybe there is a kernel level driver change that is impacting things in 2.70. I will keep you informed if I see anything,

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ bathnm commented ·

Hello @Bathnm, allright, thats good info! I’ll look into that as well - thank you.

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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ commented ·

I tried it on my Cerbo, running a near-finished next version of Venus OS large, and there the can1 loads without issues:

[   37.916046] slcan: serial line CAN interface driver
[   37.921084] slcan: 10 dynamic interface channels.
[   37.953875] can1: renamed from slcan0


and if available normally in the ifconfig output as well. I didn't test that it works, but also don't have any reason to think it doesn't work. TX packets are increasing, as they should. And RX is not, at is should since there is nothing connected.


So, I don't know what issue you had, sounds like software or configuration.


Matthijs

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