Introduction to community and query regarding any efforts/interest in CAN as transport
rjrodd opened this issue · 4 comments
Hello!
I recently became aware of Firmata and have been enjoying using it for Raspberry Pi 3 <-> Arduino* communication over the past couple of months. [* Ether10s and EtherMegas, firmata.js on the Pi's ]
In an effort to reduce power consumption I would like to replace the Ethernet transport layer (and related router/shield infrastructure) with CAN infrastructure. I'm happy to develop that software component for the Arduino and NodeJS stacks; just curious if anyone else has already explored/implemented it or has tips to offer.
Relatedly, is there already existing or is there any interest in using a Firmata Slack group? .. or perhaps just a channel in the NodeJS group ( joined via http://www.nodeslackers.com/ ).
Thanks!
Feel free to close this, or I shall, once most of the active Firmata developers/enthusiasts have a chance to chime in on CAN thoughts.
Hi, AFAIK there have been no proposals for a CAN transport layer. If this is something you are interested in contributing, take a look at the Ethernet , WiFi and BLE transports and see if you can design a CAN transport that works in a similar way. I'm not very familiar with the details of the CAN protocol myself so I'm not sure how compatible it is with Firmata.
Regarding a Firmata Slack group. There is a Firmata Slack group with only 2 users (myself and zfields). It's pretty quiet though as I'm not really a Slack user (trying to keep distractions to a minimum) - I can't even figure out my Slack login ATM. Firmata development in general is pretty quiet and slow moving.
Okay, thanks! If you ever find the name of the Firmata Slack workspace / group / team (whatever Slack calls it) I would be eager to join in the discussions. Regarding CAN transport .. I have something in place at the moment working on virtualized-CAN (Linux's socketcan library) and will be doing hardware testing before too long.
@rjrodd hasn't been active in a while, but there is https://gitter.im/firmata/protocol