Display Configuration tool

Our displays are configured with this tool that is delivered with the device free of charge. The display can be configured via CAN bus or USB disk. USB disk is recommended since is very fast and simple.

For CAN bus programming PEAK PCAN-USB adapter is needed. Other devices are not supported and we have no plans to add other adapters.

Installation

  • Extract the ZIP file to USB disk /display_Tools directory
    • display_Configurator.exe: Executable
    • signal_id_map_simple.txt: Contains available channels in the firmware
  • Execute the display_Configurator.exe application

Main Display 

  • Green: CAN Functions
  • Red: Available channels in the firmware. Use filter input to filter.
  • Yellow: Configuration buttons
  • Brown: Configuration file buttons
  • Blue: Messages sent or Ready to be sent.

Configuration concept

All settings are programmed into the firmware, currently there are no user definable channels or signals. You can see all channels in Signals dialog. Each signal has it's own and unique identifier. It is the number ahead of the name.

Display has several predefined positions in the screen. 

  • OLEDCAN: 6
  • DISPCAN: 10

With the tool these are connected together. 

Display Positions

So, if you want EngineSpeed connected to Pos 1, select 13 EngineSpeed from the list and press Pos 1 button. Message is then sent to CAN if connected and saved to Blue Configured Messages dialog. If CAN is connected, display will show the name and channel immediately.

Repeat this for all display positions.

Logging Rates

To configure logged channels, process is the same. Select the signal from the list, then select the Rate. Press Send Config to send the command to display or save to Configured Messages.

Reset Logging Rates is used to reset all logging channels

Remember to activate Logging in the Options. Logging will not start If Logging is not enabled.

Channel Configurations

These are specific channels needed to set the functionalities

Set RPM Signal: Set selected signal as the RPM channel and is needed for Shift lights. Shift lights will not work if this is signal is not set to the right signal.

Set Gear Signal: Sets the Gear channel and is needed for the gear indicator in the middle of the screen. If not set, GPS Speed is shown there automatically.

Send Config: Button sends the command and saves the message

Set Lap Distance: Needed for Lap timing if CAN bus is used.

Set Running Time: Also needed for Lap timing if timing from CAN bus is used.

Send Config: Sends the message 

Set Lat Signal: GPS Latitude signal if CAN bus is used

Set Long Signal: GPS Longitude signal if CAN bus is used

Send Config: Sends the message

Set Time Signal:  GPS Time signal if CAN bus is used

Send Config: Sends the message

Same concept, select the Signal and press the button you want to configure. Then, use Send Config to send the message when done.

Shift Lights

Shift light RPM's are set here. Set limits for each light and when done Send Shift Lights.

GPS Coordinates

This section is used to set Pit lane and Finish line Latitude and Longitude coordinates. Settings can be stored into a json file and loaded from it instead of typing coordinates every time. After setting values, press Send and values will be saved to Configured messages.

Options

Options is used to enable features.

Lap timing - Enabled lap timing functions.

Logging - Has to be enabled for data logging to start. If not set, disk is not mounted.

Performance and RT are under development and to be released later firmware

Internal GPS - Use this to disable/enable Internal GPS. To enable the GPS, device has to be fitted with the GPS hardware.

Settings you have configured are now listed in the Configured messages

Now, to save settings to a file, use Save config button to save the settings to any file which can be then used later to set the device quickly.

File functions

Tool has buttons to make setting even easier. Load config file, Save config file and Save config.txt. 

Difference between Save config file and Save config.txt
  • Save config file: You can save the settings to ANY file or folder to be used later.
  • Save config.txt: Saves the settings to root folder of the USB disk with name config.txt so that the file can be read by the display at boot up.

Process to set the device quickly

  1. Press Load Config file: Read the settings from a file.
  2. Press Send Messages (CAN) or press Save config.txt button if you want to use USB.
  3. Proceed to Sending settings to the device

Sending settings to the device

Settings are now in the Configured Messages as a list. Settings can be set in several ways:

  1. CAN Bus: Press Send Messages button to send messages via CAN Bus.
    1. Press Connect CAN 500k or 1Mbit buttons. CAN will be now connected. PEAK PCAN is the only supported device.
    2. Press Send Messages button and message sending will start. Yellow box on the bottom left of the display will turn on indicating that there are pending settings to be saved. See note below...
    3. Wait for yellow box to disappear to indicate that settings are saved.
    4. Reboot after icon has disappeared.
  2. USB disk
    1.  Use Save config.txt button to save the config file to USB disk.
    2. Insert the USB disk into the USB connector and turn on the device.
    3. USB icon will turn Yellow (Mounting OK) and then Green indicating that the disk is read ok. 
    4. Settings will now be read from the disk and the display is configured, but not saved to memory yet.
    5. Yellow box will indicate pending saves. Wait for the icon to disappear before turning the device off.
    6. Reboot after icon has disappeared.

Yellow box indicates that there are pending settings to be saved. Settings will not be saved if the box is visible. Reason for this that memory has limited number of saves and the device will destroy itself if settings are saved continuously. 

USB Disk: config.txt is moved to /configs folder in the disk. You can simply move this to root directory to set settings again when needed.