Thanks much folks! Sorry I haven’t had time to contribute more in the last few weeks — I look forward to getting back to it some weekend soon! Also I’ve got a bluz board that I’m going to try with it as well. Anybody tried that yet?
Alan has been using the RedBear Duo (combo Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) for some projects. I haven’t tried the Bluz for Carloop yet. Let us know how that works out.
Are there any codes to look at?
I’d also like to use WiFi plus Bluetooth with my newly acquired Carloop (once I get my Renault Espace to start with it inserted).
I don’t have anything I can post yet, but basically I was using the BT “chat” functionality to send serial
messages from its CAN bus. I can dig that up if your interested.
The ‘SimpleChat’ is able to send serial messages from the Redbear Duo (connected to Carloop reading CAN messages) to your phone via bluetooth. Theoretically it should send CAN messages to your phone. Let me know what you find!
I have not tried the Carloop with the Arduino IDE. The Arduino IDE should work if you are using a RedbearDuo. The Arduino IDE in theory is not going to work for a Photon or Electron; I did not test this but it is my understanding.
I recommend using one of the Particle tools, either ParticleBuild (on the cloud) or ParticleDev (installed on your computer). There is a Carloop library written for the Particle environment and it makes your development work so much easier; that is what sets Carloop apart from other similar automotive tools.
You could port the particle Carloop library over to Arduino, and that will be a big project in itself.