CANberry

A small web app that displays sensor data and controls a MOVIDRIVE Antriebsumrichter (traction converter) of SEW EURODRIVE connected to the Raspberry Pi with the help of a controller area network (CAN) bus.

Manuals

Installation

In order to install CANberry just create a virtual environment and use pip:

pip install canberry

Configuration

Create a configuration file .canrc with following content in your home directory:

[default]
interface = socketcan
channel = can0

[canberry]
identifier = 16

The identifier is the default target address.

Development

Installation:

  • Create a virtual environment virtualenv venv and activate it with source venv/bin/activate.
  • Install all dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt.
  • Run python setup.py develop to install CANberry in your virtual environment.
  • Run canberry from the command line to start the web application. Try canberry -h for help on more options.

Updating the javascript components with:

  • Install npm with sudo apt-get install nodejs.
  • Install bower with sudo npm install -g bower.
  • Use bower install -S to install and update js dependencies like concise, ractive, jquery, flotcharts.

Credits

This project uses following libraries:

Note

This project has been set up using PyScaffold. For details and usage information on PyScaffold see http://pyscaffold.readthedocs.org/.

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License

Copyright (c) 2015, Florian Wilhelm
All rights reserved.

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Developers

Changelog

Version 0.3
  • Sending data is possible via the WebUI
Version 0.2
  • Removed python-can contrib again
  • Extended the documentation
Version 0.1.1
  • Attempt to fix the python-can imports
Version 0.1
  • First beta-like release

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