BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 2 of 62 Table of contents 1 LICENSE AGREEMENT ..............5 2 PRODUCT LIABILITY ................6 3 Overview....................7 4 System requirements ................. 8 4.1 Further manuals ....................9 4.2 Additional features by optional licenses ............10 4.3 Firmware Care ....................
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14.2 Data sheet – BLUEPIRAT MOST150 / MOST150 cPhy / FlexRay ....45 15 Pin assignments and harnesses ............. 48 15.1 BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN | 44-pol SUB-D cable set ........48 15.1.1 BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN | 44-pol SUB-D - Plug ..........48 15.1.2...
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BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 4 of 62 17 List of figures ..................60 18 List of tables ..................61 19 Contact ....................62...
Licensor is and remains the owner of all titles, rights and interests in the soft- ware. The software is a copyright property of the MAGNA Telemotive GmbH. The program or parts of it may not be further licensed to third parts, rented, sold or be further marketed in any form without explicit written ap- proval by MAGNA Telemotive GmbH.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 6 of 62 PRODUCT LIABILITY The General Terms and Conditions of Sale and Delivery of MAGNA Telemotive GmbH can be found on our website (www.telemotive.de) under imprint.
Overview This user guide describes the administration of the smallest generation of BLUEPIRAT data log- ger of MAGNA Telemotive GmbH, called BLUEPIRAT Mini. This user guide describes hardware and interfaces as well as the general functions of the BLUEPIRAT Mini. The configuration and converting of the logged trace data is described in the user guide of the System Client.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 8 of 62 System requirements Control Unit A Windows based Laptop or PC is needed to configure the devices by System Client. It also allows to save the recorded data and to use them offline later. System Client The software client is used for configuring the data logger as well as downloading the recorded data or convert these into your needed file format.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 9 of 62 Further manuals Beside this user guide we offer the main manuals for our client as well as for the different data logger generations in our ServiceCenter at https://sc.telemotive.de/bluepirat. User manual for the System Client https://sc.telemotive.de/4/uploads/media/TelemotiveSystemClient_UserManual.pdf User manual for BLUEPIRAT2 / BLUEPIRAT2 5E https://www.telemotive.de/4/uploads/media/blue_PiraT2_UserManual.pdf...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 10 of 62 Additional features by optional licenses Additional features can be activated by purchasing and installing licenses. Licenses can be or- dered at our sales team. You find the user guides for these additional features in our Service- Center.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 11 of 62 Firmware Care MAGNA Telemotive GmbH invests a great amount in the further development of its products. For this we regularly provide new functions and enhancements via firmware and client releases. Basic conditions As part of the Service Product “Firmware Care", new software and firmware versions are made...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 12 of 62 The BLUEPIRAT Mini system The BLUEPIRAT Mini is a data logger, which offers the following interfaces, depending on the model: Figure 5.1: Interface (overview) The data logger can be mounted in a vehicle and due to his large storage capacity of the hard drive of currently approx.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 13 of 62 Accessories There are various accessories available for the BLUEPIRAT Mini data logger: various adapter cables the Remote Control Touch and BLUEPIRAT Remote as remote control with touch- pad and recording option for voice notes ...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 14 of 62 The BLUEPIRAT mini data logger Model versions of BLUEPIRAT Mini The BLUEPIRAT Mini is manufactured in various model versions to offer a wide range of con- nectivity in relation to the available interfaces. So an optimal utilization is ensured, depending on the existing bus systems.
D HD multifunctional main connector for power supply and some of the [Interfaces]. Figure 6.2: Rear side of the BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN / 4 CAN-FD / 8 LIN / FlexRay / 20 LIN On the rear side of BLUEPIRAT Mini MOST the multifunctional main connector for power sup- ply and some of the interfaces are realized with a 15-pol SUB-D connector.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 16 of 62 Controls and ports This chapter describes the usage of the controls and ports on the front and rear side of the BLUEPIRAT Mini. ON / Trigger button The [ON / Trigger] button on the front panel is used for these actions: Function Device status Handling...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 17 of 62 7.3.1 ACTIVE-LED (green) State Meaning Device is off or in standby mode. Device has started up and can be reached by the client. Blinking Device is starting up. Pulsing Device goes to standby mode. Table 7.2: ACTIVE-LED Maybe these states are overlain by a fast blinking when there is traffic on one of the active inter- faces (accept protocol based Ethernet logging).
If you turn off the BLUEPIRAT Mini with the [ON / Trigger] button, you have 5 seconds to re- move the medium before the logger can be reawakened. Note: MAGNA Telemotive GmbH recommends the testing of every external storage be- fore using it in a measurement. We suggest that especially USB devices with USB 3.0 are...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 19 of 62 SD card slot The BLUEPIRAT Mini offers the possibility to store data parallel to a removable media as SD card or USB device. The configuration of this feature is described in the System Client user guide.
Don’t connect ETH #3 and ETH #4 directly to each other. Warning: Multifunction connector 44-pol SUB-D HD At BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN / 4 CAN-FD / 8 LIN / 20 LIN / FlexRay this connector has these functions, depending on the logger model: ...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 21 of 62 7.10 MOST150 interface The MOST150 interface is a standard 2 + 0 connector for MOST fiber optic. Important: Maybe the MOST150 connector can’t be plugged when the 15-pol SUB-D connector is not locked.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 22 of 62 Starting the BLUEPIRAT Mini Connect the BLUEPIRAT Mini to the vehicle battery or a power supply via the power harness (red/Vbat/+/clamp 30 and black/GND/-/clamp 31). Connect the Gigabit-Ethernet-port ETH #1 / TSL with the Ethernet port of your computer by us- ing a Ethernet cable.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 23 of 62 Download and installation of the System Client Open your internet browser, enter the IP address od the device (Default settings: *Automatic DHCP-configuration for TSL with IP 192.168.0.233*) and press [Enter]. Figure 8.3: Client Portal The connection between the logger and your computer system will be established.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 24 of 62 After successfully install you will find the System Client icon on your desktop. Double-click the icon to start the application. Figure 8.4: Desktop icon You can download the entire manual for the System Client in our ServiceCenter. In the man- ual, the following operations are described extensively: ...
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BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 25 of 62 If you have no access to the logger any more please follow the instructions of chapter 7.1 ON / Trigger button to reset the network settings. Reset network settings in standby mode Start the device.
BLUEPIRAT Mini - cable set 8 CAN Figure 9.1: BLUEPIRAT Mini - cable set 8 CAN Attention: The cable sets of BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN and BLUEPIRAT Mini 4 CAN-FD have dif- ferences in the polarity of the BroadR-Reach connectors at the 44-pol SUB-D connector. Please refer to the pinning in the appendix.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 27 of 62 BLUEPIRAT Mini - cable set 8 LIN Figure 9.3: BLUEPIRAT Mini - cable set 9 LIN BLUEPIRAT Mini - cable set 20 LIN Figure 9.4: BLUEPIRAT Mini - cable set 20 LIN Attention: The BLUEPIRAT Mini 20 LIN has one special LIN interface (LIN #20) which needs a separate power supply.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 28 of 62 BLUEPIRAT Mini - cable set MOST150 Figure 9.5: BLUEPIRAT Mini - cable set MOST150 BLUEPIRAT Mini - cable set FlexRay Figure 9.6: BLUEPIRAT Mini - cable set FlexRay...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 29 of 62 Note for serial measurements Note: The BLUEPIRAT Mini actively sends data on the “Tx” line, if a protocol for the serial port is configured. The “Tx” line must only be connected to special devices that support those protocols.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 30 of 62 Logging data 10.1 Setting markers Interesting occurrences can be marked by the [ON / Trigger] button at the front panel or at the Remote Control / Remote Control Voice by setting a timestamp. When you are pressing this button, the data logger saves the current time to the internal storage as a marker.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 31 of 62 Note: Digital IN and Analog IN are combined to one wire at BLUEPIRAT Mini. Please connect the ground for Analog IN when you use an external push button. 10.2 Time stamp Usually the recorded messages will get a time stamp at the end of each received message.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 32 of 62 10.3 Standby mode The table below shows, which busses or signals are monitored for keeping the logger alive and which busses or signals are able to wake up the logger. Table 10.2: Standby mode Index...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 33 of 62 Interfaces The different interfaces of the BLUEPIRAT Mini supported bus systems are described in this chapter in more detail. 11.1 The BLUEPIRAT Mini is able to record data in compliance with the CAN specification 2.0a (11 Bit identifier) and 2.0b (29 Bit identifier).
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 34 of 62 11.1.3 Recording content The BLUEPIRAT Mini is able to record the following error states of the CAN bus: Stuff error Format error Acknowledge error Bit 0/1 error ...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 35 of 62 11.2 The BLUEPIRAT Mini is able to record data compliant to the LIN specification V1.3, V2.0 and V2.1. The data logger does not actively appear as a bus member. Sending LIN messages isn’t supported currently.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 36 of 62 11.3 Serial (RS232) Channels up to 5 Data bits 5, 6, 7, 8 Stop bits 1, 2, 1.5 Parity None, odd, even Table 11.3: Serial interface The BLUEPIRAT Mini supports only the RS232 specification. 11.3.1 Segmentation of the serial data The received serial data are clustered into data blocks separately for each channel.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 37 of 62 The combined ground has to be connected always! 11.6 Digital Output The BLUEPIRAT Mini models CAN, FlexRay and LIN have two digital outputs. The output cur- rent is up to 1 A per channel. 11.7 Ethernet / Broad-R-Reach®...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 38 of 62 If the connection is getting lost, it will take about 5 seconds to build up a new connection for log- ging data again. 11.7.1.4 UDPServer The BLUEPIRAT Mini can be configured as a UDP server by setting up an IP address and port number.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 39 of 62 Packet MDP (MOST Data Packet), MEP (MOST Ethernet Packet) Filter Control Messages on/off, Packet on/off, MDP on/off, MEP on/off, Status on/off, MDP Transmit and Receive Address, Packet Length, MEP Receive Address, Message Length requires a separate license MOST150 Streaming Table 11.5: MOST150 data logging The SMSC SpyNIC MOST150 is used to provide the MOST150 traffic data.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 40 of 62 Conversion of recorded traces All trace data will be recorded internally in the proprietary Telemotive TMT format (*.tmt). If the recorded trace data will be downloaded and sorted, the data will be converted to an Extended TMT format (*.xtmt).
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 41 of 62 Service and safety instructions Note according to standard EN55011:2009 The device is used in an industrial environment. Due to occurring, grid-bound as well as radi- ated disturbances, it might possibly be difficult to ensure compliance with electromagnetic com- patibility in other environments.
While operating the device in an automobile, the connected antennas must not be located out- side of the vehicle. Replacing the battery A lithium button cell is located within the device, which must be only replaced by MAGNA Telemotive GmbH. Mechanical exposure...
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BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 43 of 62 Power consumption / 300 mA (@ 13.8 V) 300 mA (@ 13.8 V) 300 mA (@ 13.8 V) 300 mA (@ 13.8 V) operating (typ.) Power consumption / operating (peak.) Power consumption / <...
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Up to 1.0 A (continu- Up to 1.0 A (continu- Up to 1.0 A (continu- ous load) ous load) ous load) ous load) Table 14.1: Datasheet - BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN / 4 CAN-FD / 8 LIN / 20 LIN Index...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 45 of 62 Data sheet – BLUEPIRAT MOST150 / MOST150 cPhy / 14.2 FlexRay General data bPMini MOST150 bPMini MOST150 cPhy bPMini FlexRay Nominal power supply 13.8 V 13.8 V 13.8 V voltage Power supply voltage 7 to 28 V at system 7 to 28 V at system...
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BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 46 of 62 Recording modes Normal, ring buffer Normal, ring buffer Normal, ring buffer Timestamp accuracy 1 µs 1 µs 1 µs MOST150 recording bPMini MOST bPMini MOST150 cPhy bPMini FlexRay Channel MDP MOST data MDP MOST data pack- packets, MEP MOST ets, MEP MOST Ether-...
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BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 47 of 62 Accuracy 3 % 0 -16V 3 % 0 -16V 3 % 0 -16V 4 % 16 – 20 / 32V 4 % 16 – 20 / 32V 4 % 16 – 20 / 32V Sampling interval 1 ms to 100 s 1 ms to 100 s...
Haube für 44 Pol.SUB-D FML3 K940-962 Slidelock bPMini plug F-GV-3h Table 15.1: BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN | 44-pol SUB-D - Plug This connector is identical for the following devices, but the pinning may be different! BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN ...
Digital OUT 1 banana jack green Table 15.2: BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN | 44-pol SUB-D - Pin assignment 15.1.3 BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN | BroadR-Reach - Plug The BroadR-Reach interfaces are implemented to the wiring harness as black connectors and labeled with KFZ BRR 1 / KFZ BRR 2.
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BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 50 of 62 Figure 15.1: BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN | BroadR-Reach plug (Molex 310681040-series) Mates with: Molex 31068-1010 Figure 15.2: Molex 310681010-series Index...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 51 of 62 15.2 BLUEPIRAT Mini 4 CAN-FD | 44-pol SUB-D - Pin assign- ment @ Logger comment / depiction / @ Vehicle interface signal name SUB-D Type 44-pol High Speed CAN #01 LOW DSUB-9 / male High Speed CAN #01 HIGH DSUB-9 / male...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 52 of 62 15.3 BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 LIN | 44-pol SUB-D - Pin assignment @ Logger comment / depiction / @ Vehicle interface signal name SUB-D Type 44-pol High Speed CAN #01 LOW DSUB-9 / male High Speed CAN #01 HIGH DSUB-9 / male...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 53 of 62 15.4 BLUEPIRAT Mini 20 LIN | 44-pol SUB-D - Pin assignment @ Logger @ Vehicle interface comment / depiction / signal name SUB-D Type 44-pol High Speed CAN #01 LOW DSUB-9 / male High Speed CAN #01 HIGH DSUB-9 / male...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 54 of 62 15.5 BLUEPIRAT Mini FlexRay | 44-pol SUB-D - Pin assignment @ Logger comment / depiction / @ Vehicle interface signal name SUB-D Type 44-pol High Speed CAN #01 LOW DSUB-9 / male High Speed CAN #01 HIGH DSUB-9 / male High Speed CAN #02 LOW...
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 55 of 62 BLUEPIRAT Mini MOST / cPhy | 15-pol SUB-D – cable set 15.6 BLUEPIRAT Mini MOST / cPhy | 15-pol SUB-D – Plug 15.6.1 Name Type Manufacturer-Nr. Manufacturer SUB-D 15-pol Sub D 15 Pol. jack Crimp contact S110-01V FCT-Female- S110-01V Sub D hood 9 Pol.
BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 58 of 62 Abbreviations Kürzel / abbreviation Bedeutung / meaning BLUEPIRAT Processing Information Recording Analyzing Tool BLUEPIRAT BLUEPIRAT2 bP2 5E BLUEPIRAT2 5E bPMini BLUEPIRAT Mini RC Touch Remote Control Touch bP Remote BLUEPIRAT Remote ASAM MCD-2 MC Language Automotive Electronics ACKnowledged...
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BLUEPIRAT MINI | USER MANUAL / page 59 of 62 Universal Time, Coordinated Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity WLAN Wireless Local Area Network Universal Measurement and Calibration Protocol Table 16.1: Abbreviations Index...
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Figure 6.1: Front panel of the BLUEPIRAT Mini ............... 15 Figure 6.2: Rear side of the BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN / 4 CAN-FD / 8 LIN / FlexRay / 20 LIN ... 15 Figure 6.3: Rear side of the BLUEPIRAT Mini MOST150 / MOST150 cPhy (Simplex / Duplex) 15 Figure 8.1: Power connection ....................
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Table 12.1: Conversion options (overview) ................40 Table 14.1: Datasheet - BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN / 4 CAN-FD / 8 LIN / 20 LIN ......44 Table 14.2: Datasheet - BLUEPIRAT Mini MOST150 / MOST150 cPhy / FlexRay ....47 Table 15.1: BLUEPIRAT Mini 8 CAN | 44-pol SUB-D - Plug .............
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