Build Your First VividCAN Application

VividCAN: CAN Display with Programmable Touchscreen

Intrepid Control System VividCAN is a versatile CAN tool with a customizable, full-color capacitive touchscreen. With the VividCAN you can create your own field service tool, driver’s aid, or create a customized display tailored to engineers, managers or hobbyists.

What you will build

In this tutorial, We will learn how to build a simple VividCAN Graphical Panel in Vehicle Spy to display Vehicle Speed and Fuel level. We are using the neoOBD2 Simulator (https://www.intrepidcs.com/products/ecu-simulators/neoobd2-sim/) to simulate the Vehicle Speed and Fuel level instead of a car.

Interact with Messages view

• Open Vehicle Spy 3
• Go to Messages View by Clicking Spy Networks → Messages

• Click on the Receive Button and add a black HS CAN message by clicking the “+” button
• Give your message a name and color of your choice in the description field
• Enter in Arb ID “129” in the Arbitration ID field

Add a Signals in Message

• Click + button and change the signal name to Vehicle Speed in the description field
• Click + button again and change the name to Fuel in the description field

Create Graphical Panel

• Create a new Graphical Panel by going to Measurement → Graphical Panels

• Switch the Graphical Grid to show VividCAN screen size. On your left Click Grid tab and check Show VividCAN screen size

• Add Meter tool by going to Tools tab → Click Meter and click anywhere inside the VividCAN grid view

• Add Bargraph tool by going to Tools tab → Click Bargraph and click anywhere inside the VividCAN grid view
• To configure the Meter by clicking on the Meter Panel → Go to the Properties tab → set Signal to Vehicle Speed (Value) → set Maximum to 50
• To configure the Bargraph by clicking on the Bargraph Panel → Go to the Properties tab → Set Height to 150 → Set Maximum to 20 → Set Minimum to 0 →Set Signal to Fuel (Value) → Set BarColor to Green → Set Style to Vertical

Send the script to VividCAN

The CoreMini Console is a tool for loading CoreMini Scripts into supported hardware. Some applications for CoreMini Scripts could be ECU simulation, Data Logging, Hardware acceleration, and Gateways all ran without a PC.

• The CoreMini Console is found under Tools → CoreMini Console

• Inside the CoreMini Generator Window→ Check Run After Download and Press Send

Turns the knobs from neoOBD2-Simulator to see the meter and bargraph changes.

Now you have completed your first VividCAN application. To learn more about VividCAN visit http://intrepidcs.com/vivid or watch our Intrepid Tech Days video to see the use cases at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr_tf3cZ3g4