A simple modular Tkinter application to display live vehicle telemetry data arriving via serial port. Designed to be used with Manchester Stringer Motorsports electric vehicle
Serial data should print to serial port in hexadecimal in the following format:
Timestamp (4 bytes) CANID(4 bytes) Data(8 bytes)
eg. 00000000 2014 00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77
The following CAN IDs are supported based on the DTI HV500 motor controller:
| CAN ID | Description |
|---|---|
| 0x2014 | ERPM, Duty, Input Voltage |
| 0x2114 | AC Current, DC Current |
| 0x2214 | Controller Temp., Motor Temp., Fault code |
| 0x2314 | Id, Iq values |
| 0x2414 | Throttle signal, Brake signal, Digital I/Os, Drive enable, Limit status bits, CAN map version |
Any additional IDs should be added to the DBC file, to modify the interface to display additional figures, an additional page can be added to the notebook similar to the structure of existing pages and graphs/gauges/flags can be added to the new page. Although the current design works, a future redesign of this program will move away from tkinter and use something else.
This project uses the following libraries:
- Matplotlib - For data visualization and custom UI elements
- Tkinter - For GUI implementation
- cantools - For CAN DBC file parsing
- pyserial - For serial communication
- tkdial - For analog gauges
This project uses the following libraries:
- Matplotlib - For data visualization and custom UI elements
- Tkinter - For GUI implementation
- cantools - For CAN DBC file parsing
- pyserial - For serial communication
- tkdial - For analog gauges
Disclaimer: This tool was developed with the assistance of Github Co-Pilot Claude 3.5 Sonnet and later Claude 3.7 Sonnet by Anthropic. Github Copilot was used to generate code, debug errors, integrate working examples into the program, suggest changes and auto-complete lines.