With a hurricane coming my way I had some time to work on a BLE Adapter for the VESC to work with Jacob’s app.
I used 5-pin JST connections since it’s what i had available to me today, but shipped models will have 7-pin connection.
I noticed my latest Enertion VESC did not have the 7-pin JST on the board so I soldered a 5-pin JST on to it real quick to confirm it worked with as well and my VESC.
Adaptor worked fine with both VESC!
Made a quick Video and now adapters will be on pre-order for a few weeks while I gather the materials to make about 50 for sale.
@evoheyax yup it does have a few. Main functions are really solid though and realtime stats are really useful to see when riding. I’ll be donating to Jacob from the sale of these adapters, just wanted to get more people out there using these apps. I’ll send some money your way too if these modules are compatible with your app as well.
yeah so for programming you would need two Bluetooth adaptors one for each vesc if you didn’t want to be switching the Bluetooth adaptor between vesc.
After they are programmed however if you set it up for canbus you just need one on the main vesc and that one will read all the information and relay it back to the app.
My suggestion though. Is just get one for reading the information. Jacobs app is still a bit buggy and the programming does not always work over Bluetooth from my testing. The realtime data is the main reason I use this to see how efficient my boards are running
To add onto @oriol360, it is theoretically possible to have a single bluetooth module change the parameters of both VESCs using the CAN-bus between them, however I don’t believe that any app is configured to do that (including Jacob’s). And I have heard of some buggy-ness using Jacob’s app with a single VESC, as @oriol360 said.
@oriol360 Is the app opensource? I’d like to contribute. I know it’s on the market. I just can’t find anything on git or bitbucket. My repos are here if you’d like to see https://github.com/task650. I can pretty much figure out whatever most of the time.
currently that has not been tested as all our remotes are ppm signals. But I would recommend using the uart port for one applications whether it’s remote or Bluetooth.
