Week #22 - June 20th to June 27th - Cleanup GUI, and Finalize the Datalog and Tech Window

This week we finalized nearly all of the required parts of the gui and are ready to do live testing from the device on an actual vehicle. Bryan is going to setup the unit in a case and I will create the cable to connect it to the vehicle.

The datalogger screen now provides feedback to the user when it is logging or not logging, and also allows for logging data in raw format to the device which will be uploaded to a cloud service.

The second major update was to incorporate the chart into the GUI and not have it a separate window. There is also a part for adjusting the time frame in the chart to 4 predetermined levels. The example below is charting the temperature sensor value on the GPIO.

The chart below shows the charting of the actual CAN messages that were played back at full speed on the CAN hardware.

We finished configuring the vehicle dialog and added a keyboard to put in the VIN number in the field. The keyboard does not have all of the keys because VIN numbers don't use some letters and numbers to avoid confusion when reading them.

The vehicle information is also now saved to the influx database to organize the data by VIN number for easy identification.

I have spoken to Dr. Davis briefly about patenting this device and he said he would need to put in me in contact with another person for some assistance there. I also saw that the US Patent Office is offering some webinars to go over the process for free, so I signed up to that for additional information.

This week I am going to work on constructing the flowcharts and tables to describe the final program flow, and then also do some live testing on vehicles to confirm that everything works as designed.