Giving MDC1460 controllers unique address'

7 years 7 months ago #29531673 by viron11111
I have a robot with 4 MDC1460's on board. We're using the USB connections. I noticed this topic: dev.roboteq.com/dev1/index.php/forum/14-...-roboteq-controllers

However, ^cad and ~cad does not work with my devices and I couldn't find an equivalent command in the manual. Is there another way to give each controller a different address?

Thanks.

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7 years 7 months ago #29531674 by niko
Hello,

The mentioned topic was 4 years ago. So, now you can use CNOD instead of CAN.

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7 years 7 months ago #29531676 by viron11111
Thanks for the response.

I changed the NodeID with ^CNOD and confirmed the change with ~CNOD. However, the USB device ID for all of the devices is still: usb-Roboteq_Motor_Controller_MDC14XX-if00.

We're using a ROS launch file that accesses the serial port via by-id. With FTDI serial devices, each device has a unique ID that we reference with udev rules.

Is there some way that I can change the ID or uniquely identify the motorcontroller, through the serial port, besides the by-path method (which changes when we plug them into different ports)?

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7 years 7 months ago #29531678 by niko
Hello,

the USB id cannot change. The idea is that when you connect to a device, in order to know which device it is you type~CNOD and get the node id you have configured.
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7 years 7 months ago #29531683 by viron11111

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7 years 7 months ago #29531716 by korence
Helpful post, thanks.

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