battery/controller comminucation

[Tduck5819]

I recently purchased a Super Soco 60V 43Ah battery, which utilizes RS485 communication, and I'm looking to integrate it with my FarDriver ND72260 controller. From my research, I found that the FarDriver controller also has an RS485 communication interface at the programming port, though I haven't come across any examples of people successfully connecting these two devices.

Additionally, I discovered that my FarDriver controller has two CAN bus wires, which opens up another possible avenue for communication. I'm curious if anyone has experience or technical insights on how the FarDriver controller handles communication via RS485 or CAN bus, and whether it's possible to establish a connection between the battery and the controller using either method.

Any advice or suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated!

 

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Not familiar with your battery what info does it publish you can use?
Afaik all you need is a voltage log which alongside logs of other metrics should provide all the info needed?
What metrics do you log currently or intend to log?

Or do you want to enhance your display? if so not a good idea imho less distractions from the road ahead are good more is bad

 

[Tduck5819]

I am interested in logging data to monitor battery performance and warnings. like for exmple when the battery overheats the controller wil stop. This are the read responses of the bms that i have found click here

 

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Had to google the controller, after a quick scan it appears the logging is via a blue tooth paired phone and app?
And i failed to see any clue of modifying the bluetooth package to include new data elements? let alone any scripting interface for handshaking any connected devices, though it was a quick scan over so i could have glossed over it. or missed the whole point completely?

Depending on the bluetooth protocols and how public they are the simplest solution may be a simple stand alone soc like an esp32 hooked upto the battery bms via RS485 and listening for BLE advertisements from the far drive and logging both in relative real time.

the arduino ide and its ample supply of example sketches should provide frameworks to establish all communication required and log in your preferred format to an sd card. Or log to a cloud file if your happy to host a wifi hotspot on your phone, tho i wouldnt.