Trackside telemetry system for Gopher Motorsports
- Data streaming over XBee radio transmitters
- Database storage and visualisation
- Built-in vehicle sensor simulator
The intended use of this package is for drive days and competition for Gopher Motorsports - UMN FSAE. One XBee radio transmitter is connected to the DLM within the vehicle. Data packets containing sensor information about the car is streamed to another XBee connected to a trackside computer. This package will parse the incoming bytes, store the data in InfluxDB, and display the data in Grafana.
Please install using this command on Linux/MacOS:
curl -LJO https://github.com/gopher-motorsports/trackside-telemetry/releases/download/cli/trackside-0.9.1-py3-none-any.whl ; pip install trackside-0.9.1-py3-none-any.whl
To start the trackside system:
$ trackside
Note:
--usbflag may need to be used depending on the name of your USB port in /dev. Example usage:
$ trackside --usb /dev/ttyUSB1
>>> import trackside as ts
To start the receiver:
>>> ts.reciever()
To start and run the DLMSimulator, and decode a test packet:
>>> sim = ts.DLM()
>>> sim.run()
>>> packet = sim.data
>>> output = parse_packet(packet)
To log a CSV file in InfluxDB:
>>> iw = ts.InfluxWriter()
>>> iw.write_csv('./file.csv')
To read a packet waiting in the XBee buffer:
>>> tl = ts.TracksideLogger()
>>> bytes = tl.read()
>>> output = parse_packet(bytes)
>>> del tl
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Please watch our video demo.