I recently work on a project to use Rpi as an CAN message logger.
The HW we used:
R Pi 3 module B+
CAN Bus Module for Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Intel Galileo [XBee Socket]
with Raspberry Pi to Arduino Shields Connection Bridge as the CAN message receiver,
a CAnalyzer case from Vector Informatik as the sender.
After I fixed everything to work and try the examples with the arduPi lib, e.g. CANBUS_01_basic_example.cpp, just realised that the function



takes about 80 ms to receive one message. But the sender actually send about 13,000 messages per second, so we lost a lot of messages. Has anybody used the same devices and got a better performance?
Thanks for any help!

Hello the last unicorn,
We never tested the module at these high speed taxes. Theoretically you need a 780000Baud (assuming a 3byte payload message)
Maybe you can improve the delay added by (in .getMessage() procedure):

See Utlis libray in api directory.
Regards.

Hello libelium-dev,

thanks for the answer. I thought you've already tested those HW in some car or with some simulator, but you never test the speed? That 13,000 messages per second in my last post may not correct, here is my estimation:

a CAN message has 28 Byte, means 224 bit, + some ACK, let's say 250 bit,
with speed 500k bit per second () : 500 * 1024 / 250 = 2048

So we were supposed to receive about 2000 messages per second. Do you think we could reach that with the current devices? Which baud rate will be needed for 2000 messages per second?
I will try to improve the delay in Utils lib and let you know the result.

By the way, could you fix the title of this post, not "How far could ...", but "how fast could ..."? Thanks a lot!

Hello the last unicarn,

We have not tested this rate.

Maybe you can send the SPI divider in the library to improve it.

Regards.