Bdale: I don't disagree with anything you say.
I had in mind something along the lines of installation and/or configuration instructions. Based on Chuck's note, it appears that the user needs to specify address and mode before delivery.
Thanks & 73, Jim [email protected]
Bdale Garbee wrote:
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 20:27 -0400, Jim Sanford wrote:
Guys: There's a lesson here: DOCUMENTATION
The only additional documentation I can think of that might help in this sort of case would be something like a CAN bus troubleshooting flowchart. Having something like that wouldn't help avoid this kind of problem, but it might reduce the time to resolution.
It does sound like the software Juan is using could use better error reporting in the case where there's apparently no module responding at the address selected.
Pretty typical in projects like this for us to get a lot of mileage out of software and process documentation that's just barely adequate to the task and lacking in "frills" like good user interfaces and/or error reporting. That doesn't make it right, but I don't think there are any magic fixes, either.
Bdale