irsdk in Go

This is a port of the iRacing sdk to Go. The iRacing sdk logic is ported and slightly modified to make it a bit more go-y.

The initial idea for porting it to go was to make it compatible with the Linux version of iRacing (which runs under wine / CrossOver). I choose Go because of the (small) cross-platform standalone binaries without dependencies on a third-party frameworks (.Net).

This doesn't mean it's Linux only. Go runs fine on Windows and this library should work fine on Windows (not tested).

Installation

Windows

go get github.com/LeonB/irsdk-go

Linux

GOARCH=386 GOOS=windows go get github.com/LeonB/irsdk-go

Example

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	irsdk "github.com/leonb/irsdk-go"
)

func main() {
	conn, err := irsdk.NewConnection()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	err = conn.Connect()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	fields := []string{}

	for {
		telemetryData, err := conn.GetTelemetryDataFiltered(fields)
		if err != nil {
			log.Println(err)
		}

		fmt.Printf("%+v\n", telemetryData)
	}
}

Terminalhud

This repository contains a sample program terminalhud:

Known bugs / pitfalls

• When running it under wine, Go time functions do not work: go-nuts thread / wine bug
• broadcastmsg doesn't work (no idea why)

Inspiration

• http://ir-apps.kutu.ru/
• https://github.com/meltingice/node-iracing
• https://github.com/thisismyrobot/python-iracing-api
• https://github.com/vipoo/irsdk/