On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:20 AM, ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
Yes, of course, all that. But my question is: Where, or into what, in a car does the card plug into? That is, if I buy such a card, it will accomplish very little if it is lying on my desk. It needs to connect into my car, yes? So where in the car does it plug into?
No idea yet. The MobilEye device we will install expects to be able to connect to the vehicle system as well as to ours. It needs to know things like if the turn signals are activated so it knows if it is relevant to warn about the vehicle changing lane. And it can control the cruise control if you are getting too close to something. We are actually not interested in these things. We want to know about lane markings to compliment our measurement of their retro-reflectivity and wear. We have a bit of a learning time ahead. I have no idea where it it connected. I suspect there is a connector under the dashboard just waiting for this. Although we have placed measurement systems in vehicles for years, we have also always installed our own measurement transducers or things like measuring speed and acceleration. It will be interesting to see what the vehicle systems (usually Mercedes vans) think. We are probably going to go with a CANBus-USB3 interface (we have found one that seems to have excellent Linux support and is enabled in the openSUSE kernel - plug and play!). And the programming interface seems to be sockets. So I expect this part to be rather straight forward. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org