Does anyone know if the grimme gb215 belt planter has a place for a gps input for section control that could be used with agopen.
Currently pressing a Start button on the control box that starts the belt and lowers the hood. Then pressing stop to stop the belt and lift the hood.
The external pull switch could probably be used and linked to a relay board but this only starts and stops the belt, doesn’t operate the hood.
Currently running through the grimme isobus control box. Also has the additional box with buttons and joysticks.
Update to this.
We did get the belt to stop and start with agopen and a relay board.
Turns out grimme actually fit a plug ready for a 3rd party input.
Its buried behind some wires behind the top link bracket and the plug is labelled XENDS.
Its a 3 pin plug but only 2 wires are used.
We linked 2 wires to the relay board and it cuts the signal to start and stop the belt.
The system works very well so far.
The operator is also using different colours of painting in for a variety change in the field aswell as dropping a flag to name the varities.
The tablet will then be taken to the harvesting tractor in the autumn and hopefully will show where the change in variety are in the field.
Current system is the standard f9p running via usb and machine module with a single relay board running usb.
Sounds like a slight improvement might be to add a imu into the mix for slightly better accuracy of rows on sideland.
Wondering if it would be possible to add the imu code to the machine module code on the nano to avoid using another nano and another usb:thinking:
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