MoTeC M1 ECU - CAN keypad integration

[@mftsolutions3893]

This is a great walkthrough and applicable to standard keypad function in GPA/GPR now as well. How do you handle showing these status changes on a dash? If you assign a function directly to a Driver Keypad Button how do we pick these up in the CAN template on the dash side?

[@JohnReedRacing]

Thanks! This video is quite old now, and the integration is no longer the same, but the basics still apply. My firmware have channels in the CAN transmit to make the status changes in the dash easy, but last I checked GPA/GPR does not. You would have to grab the button press messages off of the CAN, and create the states in the dash that you need.

[@mftsolutions3893]

@@JohnReedRacing I figured this would be the case, thanks John!

[@一只野生的洗车桑]

I am now running the 86/brz License package on the M1 ECU right now and will it support that package too? If I go with the link keypad (the one with 8 circle-shaped buttons and lights), is it possible to get them into my M1?

[@JohnReedRacing]

The 86/BRZ firmware does support the keypad, though the integration has changed/improved since I did this video, so same concept but a bit different setup flow. I don't know about the Link keypad, but for it to work with the M1, it would need to output data in the same format as the MoTeC keypad.

[@iimuchfa]

John, I bought an Eaton E31 CAN keypad a while ago. I have an M150 with GPRP package on my Radical SR8. Is integrating Eaton keypad in the realm of possibility?

[@JohnReedRacing]

It is possible, but wouldn't be cheap. You would have to get a development license and then have the Eaton keypad integration added to the GPR-P package custom for you. Most of the cost would be in the development license itself. It would be cheaper to just get the MoTeC keypad to be honest.

[@mahu7447]

do you need there pdm if you want to use this?

[@johnreed1951]

No PDM needed. Just a M1 ECU running one of my firmware packages, and a keypad!