Kanardia BLU User manual

BLU & Kanja — Manual
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August 2021
Revision 1.5

BLU & Kanja — Manual
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BLU & Kanja — Manual CONTENTS
Rev. Date Description
1.3 February 2020 Revised with LaTeX
1.4 July 2020 Instrument Screen Layout Changes updated
1.5 August 2021 Kanja App updated
Contents
1 Introduction 6
1.1 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2 KanjaMeaning........................... 6
2 Software Installation 7
3 Hardware Installation 8
4 Kanja App 8
4.1 AccessGrants............................ 8
4.2 TheStartPage ........................... 9
4.3 Pairing and First Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.4 Connection ............................. 10
4.5 DevicesPage ............................ 11
5 Standard Options 12
5.1 Info ................................. 12
5.2 Update ............................... 13
5.2.1 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.3 Console ............................... 14
5.4 ICan................................. 15
5.5 Reset................................. 16
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6 Special Commands 16
6.1 EngineTotalTime ......................... 16
6.2 FlightTotalTime ......................... 17
6.3 FuelLevel.............................. 17
6.4 UpdateData ............................ 17
6.5 UpdateApp............................. 17
6.6 About ................................ 17
7 Daqu Options 18
7.1 Channels .............................. 18
7.1.1 Fuel Pressure Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.1.2 Fuel Level Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.2 Offset ................................ 21
7.3 ResetChannels........................... 22
7.4 Tank................................. 23
7.4.1 EditShape ......................... 23
7.4.2 Empty/Full......................... 25
7.4.3 Verification With ICan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7.4.4 Example........................... 26
8 Indu & Digi Options 29
8.1 ScreenCustom ........................... 30
8.2 ScreenOEM ............................ 31
8.3 Logo................................. 31
8.4 Channels .............................. 32
8.4.1 Standalone Indu RPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
8.5 RPMLogger ............................ 33
8.6 Flags................................. 34
8.7 Response .............................. 34
8.8 Offset ................................ 36
8.8.1 Static Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8.8.2 Dynamic Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8.9 Password .............................. 37
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9 Limited Conditions 37
9.1 Warranty .............................. 38
9.2 TSOInformation.......................... 40
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BLU & Kanja — Manual 1. Introduction
1 Introduction
First of all we would like to thank you for choosing Kanardia.
Kanardia BLU is a CAN-to-Bluetooth interface device which in combination
with Kanja Android application provides ability to upgrade and configure
most CAN based Kanardia products. It is also well suited for various diag-
nostic.
When your system consist mostly from Indu devices, Horis or similar, it is
essential component for the software update.
This manual covers BLU device in combination with its Kanja Android app.
 BLU is the interface device which plugs into Kanardia CAN bus network.
It listens to the CAN bus traffic and transmits the traffic to the Kanja
app via Bluetooth connection.
 Kanja is an Android app, used to manipulate Kanardia CAN bus de-
vices. Most of this manual is devoted to Kanja.
1.1 System Requirements
To run Kanja application and control Kanardia devices with BLU interface
you will need an Android tablet or telephone with:
 Android version 7 or higher,
 WiFi/3G/4G data connection,
 Bluetooth v2.1 or later.
1.2 Kanja Meaning
In our language (Slovene) Kanja shown in Figure 1 is a name for a predator
bird very common in Europe. See wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Common_buzzard for more details.
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BLU & Kanja — Manual 2. Software Installation
Figure 1: Kanja (Common Buzzard) in flight. The photo is credit of Andreas
Trepte, http://avi-fauna.info/.
2 Software Installation
Kanja can be installed from Play Store. Example is shown on Figure 2:
1. Open the Play Store app on your Android device.
2. Enter Kanja Kanardia into the search field.
3. Locate the Kanja app and install it in a standard way.
Figure 2: Installation from Play Store detail.
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BLU & Kanja — Manual 3. Hardware Installation
3 Hardware Installation
BLU dongle has to be connected to Kanardia CAN network. Normally the
easiest way to do it is to connect it in a place where RJ45 CAN bus terminator
plug is connected. Shortly after the power is applied to Kanardia devices
(CAN network) the BLU will indicate initialization routine by blinking red
and blue LEDs. Once the initialization is complete the blue LED will blink
in a rate of one blink per second.
Figure 3: Blu inserted into an Indu device into one of the CAN ports.
You have to assure that at least one CAN bus terminator is present on the
CAN bus! If not terminator is present, the CAN bus will not be working
properly.
4 Kanja App
4.1 Access Grants
On the very first run, the system will ask you to allow Kanja some access.
In reality Kanja only needs access to files, where the latest firmware, user
layouts and configurations are stored. However, the system will ask you for
more permissions. Please allow access to them otherwise you will not be able
to pair it with BLU. It is beyond our knowledge why all these permissions are
needed.
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BLU & Kanja — Manual 4.2 The Start Page
4.2 The Start Page
When Kanja starts, a page similar to Figure 4 appears. Figure 4 shows
individual elements on the page.
1
O Kanja app version is shown on top and last data download date & time
is shown below.
2
O Opens a new page with a list of all Kanardia devices detected on the
CAN bus. You have to connect Kanja and BLU first.
3
O The connection button. Click it to establish connection between Kanja
and BLU. BLU must be paired first. The hexadecimal number on the
button shows the address of the bluetooth device it will connect to.
4
O A click on the Scan button opens a list of detected Bluetooth devices.
Normaly you have to do this only once – to pair your BLU with Android.
5
O Status bar is briefly shown on the app start. Once the latest data has
been downloaded, Done is displayed and shortly after the line disappears.
6
O Kanja global menu allows access to certain special commands.
7
O Manual BLU address entry. This is seldom used. You may use it in
cases where selection from the Scan process fails.
4.3 Pairing and First Connection
Kanja app and BLU must be paired before first connection to the CAN net-
work. Usually this is done only once. Android will remember the last BLU
address and will try to reuse it in the future.
1. Plug the BLU device into a free CAN slot on Kanardia CAN network.
See section 3.
2. Make sure the Kanardia CAN network is powered on and make sure
that at least one CAN bus terminator is present.
3. Make sure that the BLU initializes properly (blue LED blinking in a
rate of one blink per second).
4. Make sure that the Bluetooth module and its visibility to others is
enabled on the Android device.
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BLU & Kanja — Manual 4.4 Connection
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Figure 4: Typical page shown on Kanja start
5. Start the Kanja app on Android device. The page similar to one shown
on Figure 5a shall appear.
6. Click the Scan button to start scanning for Bluetooth devices and wait
a few seconds.
7. Bluetooth addresses starts appearing on the list, see Figure 5b. You may
see significant number of addresses. Unfortunately, many Androids have
problem in detecting names of the devices, so only their addresses may
be shown. You got you BLU address listed on the Warranty papers. If
Kanardia BLU does not appear on the list, compare the addresses with
the address on the Warranty paper. Select the matching address.
8. Press the Connect button. Confirm Bluetooth pairing request when the
dialog appears, Figure 5c. It will not appear if BLU was already paired
with this Android. Finally, page changes to a list of Kanardia devices
detected on the CAN network.
4.4 Connection
If Kanja and BLU were already paired (see section 4.3), then simply:
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