An asset device can interact with an Octave edge device by sending and receiving information over CANopen. This topic provides a walk through on setting up communications on a mangOH Red using CANopen.

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To use CANopen with an FX30S or mangOH Red, the device must be running firmware 1.0.14+ and must be equipped with an IoT expansion card.

For additional information about the CANopen protocol see the [CANopen Reference Guide].

Tutorial for CANopen Communications

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Note

This tutorial assumes a working knowledge of CANopen.

Setting up CAN bus on the mangOH Red Through Octave

Follow the steps below to configure Octave to communicate over CANopen:

1. Select your mangOH Red in the Octave dashboard and navigate to Build > Device > Services.
2. Locate the CANopen section, and click Configure.
3. Set Bus name to bus1, set the Bitrate to 125kb/s, and set Mode to spy.
4. In the Configuration section, enter an ID and name for the first node. Click "+" to add additional nodes and enter their information as required.
5. Set the Polling Period under Objects to 1. This specifies that the object at the edge will be polled every second.
6. Define objects for a CANopen object dictionary by setting the ID and name just below the polling period. Click the "+" button on the right hand side to add additional variables to the object dictionary.
7. Click the down arrow to the left of the object ID to view its sub indices, and enter the ID, name, and type for each. Click the "+" button on the right hand side to add additional sub indices to a variable. Note that the Const type is read-only and is the same size as Unsigned32. The other types can be used for service-to-object requests which can involve both reads and writes.
8. Set up the CANopen Process Data Object (PDO) protocol by clicking the PDOS tab. Click the "+" button on the right hand side to add additional PDOS entries.
9. Ensure the arrow to the left of the first PDOS entry points down, and click EntryId to select a variable/subindex combination defined in steps 6 and 7 above. The graph will update to provide a visual indication as to how many bits of the 64-bit data size maximum the entries use. Click the "+" button on the right hand side to add additional PDOS entries.
10. Click Save to save the CANopen configuration.

Verifying Resources

Follow the steps below to identify and verify the resources that have been created for your bus:

1. Navigate to Build > Device > Resources in the Octave dashboard.
2. Locate and expand canopen and verify that the errorlog/value is null. This field will be populated with an error message if an error occurs when configuring CANopen.
3. Expand canopen > bus1 to view the CANopen configuration.

Receiving Data from a CANopen Device

1. Navigate to Build > Device > Observations.
2. Create a new Observation that sends events to the Cloud Stream, and save it.
3. Wait for Octave to poll the device and then view the Observation's Last Value field to see the raw data that was read.