Hi everyone, I have a question, I don’t know where to start with CanBus.
I’m installing AGO into NH T7.210 without steering preparation. The steering assembly using the hydraulic valve went well, I steer great and now I’m solving how to control the tractor.
So it’s not about steering settings for me, but about the tractor’s communication with AGO.
I apologize in advance for the stupid question, but I’ve been looking at the forum for the umpteenth day and I’m simply lost in the topic. For example, the thread “CanBus for Beginners - Super Simple” is already too long for me to study it in its entirety and from the beginning. I always get lost in a dead end.
My tractor is equipped with an Intelliview IV monitor, a Slide Winder armrest (so equipped with electronic hydraulic valves) practically like this CanBus for Beginners - Super Simple - #1304 by Steel181 and I’m talking about using the HTS (Headlamp Turning System), so that at the beginning of the track the AGO lowers the mower to zero and at the end it raises it again. Next, I’m talking about controlling the HTS from the tractor lever.
I admit that I’m somehow missing the point and I don’t know how it actually works. I understood that I can connect the CanBus directly to the Teensy, but that only applies to the steering, right? Should I control the work in the AGO via the Teensy or should I solve the replication via USB from Windows and control the tractor with it? Can someone please send me specific links from the forum where to start? For example, the information on docs.agopengps.com seems quite outdated and more for AIO 2.x boards.
Exactly. I think this feature is practically essential for maximum use of automatic steering. If AGO can control relay switches at the end of the headland, then perhaps it could also control the tractor function.
You might be able to use a arduino nano connected and possibly a single relay board to your tablet with the usb the upload the machine usb sketch to the nano. You could use this to ‘press’ the headland management button for you. The nano can output 5v and 3v
The standard nono sketch has section control cofe and machine lift capabilities.
So i dont need extra single relay board to trigger the button? Or that depends how is the armrest built( wanting to do same thing on Case Maxxum 2009 w EP)
Im not sure. You’ll need to find out how the button works. The nano will create and output votage that is trigged either on the inner boundary line or on coverage . You could use this signal to press the button for you but nothing is ever that simple though.
You could likely issue the same command as your headland management button via CANBUS as well - it would take a little work in terms of coding and reading the right code, but I would think it could be done.
I admit that I also thought about bypassing the button. But it seems to me to be a very invasive intervention in the tractor’s wiring. That’s why I’m looking for a way to execute the command via CANBUS.
