Problem receiving CAN-bus with Arduino UNO, CAN-BUS Shield and PE3 calculator

Hi everyone,

I am a first year Student in an engeneer school in france, I am completly new on this forum and i would like to trade a bit of your wisdom and patience with my foolishness and poor english...

I am currently trying to get informations from a calculator PE3, which use the SAE J1939 protocol to transmit it's canbus, in order to get speed, rpm and other informations on the engine and the car I am working on. I have managed to get the canbus but my problems come from the fact that those informations don't change over time, even when the car is speeding up or slowing down.
I am certain the calculator does work because we have a software that can read the data correctly by plugging the calculator to a PC.
Here is my code:

#include <SPI.h>
#include <mcp_can.h>

//prototypes
int cmp_tab(float tab1,float tab2,int taille);  //pour comparer 2 tableaux


//variables
unsigned char Flag_Recv = 0;
unsigned char len = 0;
unsigned char buf[8];
char str[20];
int w = 0;
unsigned char rpm [8];
unsigned char BvlteCT [8];
unsigned char vitesse[8];
float RPM;



void setup()
{
    Serial.begin(115200);

START_INIT:

    if(CAN_OK == CAN.begin(CAN_250KBPS))                   // init can bus : baudrate = 250k
    {
        CAN.init_Filt(0,1,1);                        //actually i don't really know why i'm doing this but it doesn't work without this line
        Serial.println("\nCAN BUS Shield init ok");
    }
    else
    {
        Serial.println("\nCAN BUS Shield init fail");
        Serial.println("\nInit CAN BUS Shield again");
        delay(100);
        goto START_INIT;
    }
    
    attachInterrupt(0, MCP2515_ISR, FALLING); // start interrupt
}

void MCP2515_ISR()
{
     Flag_Recv = 1;
}

void loop()
{    
      if(Flag_Recv)                   // check if get data
      {
        Flag_Recv = 0;
          INT32U a=CAN.getCanId();       //get the bus ID in order to see what data i'm receiving
          CAN.readMsgBuf(&len, buf);    // read data,  len: data length, buf: data buf
          switch(a)
          {
            case 218099784:            //rpm et tps
            Serial.println("\nrpm et tps: ");
            for(int i = 0; i<len; i++)    // print the data
            {
                rpm[i]=buf[i];
                Serial.print(rpm[i]);Serial.print("\t");    //getting print and recorded the data i've received, depending on the ID
            }
            RPM=rpm[4]*256+rpm[5];
            if (RPM>=32767)
            {
              RPM=(RPM-65536);
            }
            Serial.println("\nles rpm:");
            Serial.println(RPM);
            break;
            case 218100808:
            Serial.println("\nvitesse: ");
            for(int i = 0; i<len; i++)
            {
                vitesse[i]=buf[i];
                Serial.print(vitesse[i]);Serial.print("\t ");
            }
            break;
            case 218101064:
            Serial.println("\nBttry cool temp: ");
            for(int i = 0; i<len; i++)
            {
                BvlteCT[i]=buf[i];
                Serial.print(BvlteCT[i]);Serial.print("\t");
            }
            break;
          }
      }
}

Basically what it does is simple:
-check if some data has arrived
-get the ID of the bus
-check which ID it is
-store the data regarding the ID
-print the canbus

here is the canbus protocol of the calculator:
http://www.pe-ltd.com/joomla/images/downloads/AN400_CAN_Protocol_B.pdf

My skills in programing and english are a bit limited so I have to ask you to have simple answers please.
I am in a bit of a hurry though because I have to finish this before next thursday and i really don't know how to do it....
I have search in the deep and dark parts of internet and I haven't found the answer to my problem, even on forums.
I thank you already for your usefull answers :slight_smile:

Could someone answer my question please, I'm really trying to do it but I really don't understand why it doesn't work...

Take a look at my library, it will help out with J1939 messages.

http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?PHPSESSID=gd48nbdmgm38qbmfj690dga0n7&topic=238877.msg1714507#msg1714507

Hi,
Even I'm using PE3 ECU and Sparkfun CAN shield, I'm unable to even initialize communication with the ECU. Please help me out