I will be using this for my startup www.TesCustoms.com and giving back to the project via PR's, if that is desire by the maintainers.

We have a plan to make a prototype that is a connected service agent using eclipse-kuksa.val on CANOPi.
I think it is not efficient to make 2 or 3 boards by ourself with informations this gitbhub provides.

So, I am wondering if there is the way to buy CANOPi boards by on-line?

Thanks,

I'm ordering PCBs for assembly at https://jlcpcb.com/order and can't seem to find the pick and place file that I assumed would be in EDA directory somewhere near https://github.com/TesCustoms/TesMufflerDongle/tree/main/EDA/PiOBD_CM4_MultiBoard_V1.1/TopBoard/Project%20Outputs%20for%20TopBoard

Linked below is a sample CPL file that JCL PCB provided:
https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/050_UZ1zaG_tQxW3B6V0IZN7w#JLCSMT_Sample_CPL1

We're planing to mass produce the PCB board, found four BOM files. Which files to be used? Please add more comments, or remove unused files.

As already mentioned in issue #10, the STN2120 is difficult to get.

I contacted OBD Solutions and unfortunately they're not producing the STN2120 anymore and also don't have stock left.
What could be an alternative?

Hi, STN2120 is a bit of a challenge. It was over 5 usd a pice (but we only ordered small quantities).

Main issue is, there is no second supplier. I suggest contacting https://www.obdsol.com/ (the manufacturer) directly. Depending on their availability maybe some of their other variants may be available, if pin compatible (not sure)

CanoPi itself can boot without OBD chip as well, however it is one of the most accessible features for developers,to get data from OBD directly by just plugging the dongle in without having to „cut CAN Lines“. So just leaving it out is probably not a good option

Theroetically an ELM327 (clone) could be used, but that demands a change in PCB Layout, i.e. changing the Altium files. While the STN are software compatible with ELM327, they are not drop in replacements from hw layout perspective. We have so far never looked into this.