cRio Serial to Can Bus Troubleshooting

[Mark McLeod]

To test the cRIO serial port you can enable console out and read from it using a terminal program on a laptop having a serial port of a USB-Serial adaptor.
With the terminal connected just boot the cRIO and you'll get the stream of console messages.

[LeadU2Fun]

*** Update ***

1) We reimaged the cRio with the none option for the CAN bus and the net console box ticked with java as the language option.

2) Then we commented out all the code that dealt with the black jaguar can bus.

3) Uploaded code to robot.

4) Flipped the console out switch on the cRio (8 slot with physical dip switches).

5) Hooked null modem cable up to cRio serial port and computer. (After no console messages I double checked by doing a continuity check on pin 2 on one side and pin 3 on the other and vice versa.)

6) On computer opened putty, configured for serial, tried both com1 and com3 on different instances @ 115,200.

7) Powered cRio and watched for console information.

We could not get any console information through the serial port. I am pretty sure the port is dead.

[wt200999]

Originally Posted by LeadU2Fun

4) Flipped the console out switch on the cRio (8 slot with physical dip switches).

I remember reading that only the 4 slot cRIO is supported with this year's code? If you install and use last year's LabVIEW + NI Update and use the old image it may work?

I know for us we were running the bot a couple of days before updating it, so I feel it may be the image. Where can we go to submit a bug report for this or at least confirm? I would rather not have to re-wire our bot.

[LeadU2Fun]

We used a different laptop and installed the 2014 system on it. We are programming in Java and the only difference from orignial successful code is the JDK is updated on this laptop. We did reimage the cRio with last years image and install the code with the 2014 system still no CAN bus or serial console port out (both tried independent of each other as you can not run both at once).