Welcome to the automotive
crate documentation. The purpose of this crate is to help you with all things automotive related. Most importantly, it provides a fully async CAN interface supporting multiple adapters.
The following adapter opens the first available adapter on the system, and then receives all frames. Note how the sent frame is awaited, which waits until the message is ACKed on the CAN bus.
use automotive::StreamExt;
async fn can_example() -> automotive::Result<()> {
let adapter = automotive::can::get_adapter()?;
let mut stream = adapter.recv();
let frame = automotive::can::Frame::new(0, 0x541.into(), &[0xff; 8])?;
adapter.send(&frame).await;
while let Some(frame) = stream.next().await {
let id: u32 = frame.id.into();
println!("[{}]\t0x{:x}\t{}", frame.bus, id, hex::encode(frame.data));
}
Ok(())
}
The automotive crate also supplies interfaces for various diagnostic protocols such as UDS. The adapter is first wrapped to support the ISO Transport Layer, then a UDS Client is created. All methods are fully async, making it easy to communicate with multiple ECUs in parallel. See automotive#21 for progress on the supported SIDs.
async fn uds_example() -> automotive::Result<()> {
let adapter = automotive::can::get_adapter()?;
let isotp = automotive::isotp::IsoTPAdapter::from_id(&adapter, 0x7a1);
let uds = automotive::uds::UDSClient::new(&isotp);
uds.tester_present().await.unwrap();
let response = uds.read_data_by_identifier(automotive::uds::DataIdentifier::ApplicationSoftwareIdentification as u16).await?;
println!("Application Software Identification: {}", hex::encode(response));
Ok(())
}
The following CAN adapters are supported.
This library has some unique features that might expose (performance) issues in drivers you wouldn't otherwise notice, so check the list of known limitations below.
This library supports awaiting a sent frame and waiting for the ACK on the CAN bus. This requires receiving these ACKs from the adapter, and matching them to the appropriate sent frame. This requires some level of hardware support that is not offered by all adapters/drivers. If this is not supported by the driver, an ACK will be simulated as soon as the frame is transmitted, but this can cause issues if precise timing is needed.
IFF_ECHO
: This class of SocketCAN drivers has no hardware support for notifying the driver when a frame was ACKed. This is instead emulated by the Linux kernel. Due to transmitted frames immediately being received again this can cause the receive queue to fill up if more than 476 (default RX queue size on most systems) are transmitted in one go. To solve this we implement emulated ACKs ourself, instead of relying on the ACKs from the kernel.peak_usb
). The kernel driver properly implements IFF_ECHO
, but has a rather small TX queue. This should not cause any issues, but it can be increased with ifconfig can0 txqueuelen <size>
.pcan
) that can be downloaded from Peak System's website. The out-of-tree driver is not recommended as it does not implement IFF_ECHO
.vector-xl
feature. Make sure to distribute vxlapi64.dll
alongside your application.Implementing a new adapter is done by implementing the CanAdapter
Trait. Hardware implementations can be blocking, as the AsyncCanAdapter takes care of presenting an async interface to the user. The library makes some assumptions around sending/receiving frames. These assumption are also verified by the tests in tests/adapter_tests.rs
.
send
function takes a &mut VecDequeue
of frames. Frames to be sent are taken from the front of this queue. If there is no space in the hardware or driver buffer to send out all messages it's OK to return before the queue is fully empty. If an error occurs make sure to put the message back at the beginning of the queue and return.Once a frame is ACKed it should be put in the receive queue with the loopback
flag set. The AsyncCanAdapter
wrapper will take care of matching it against the right transmit frame and resolving the Future. If this is not supported by the underlying hardware, this can be faked by looping back all transmitted frames immediately.
Features I'd like to add in the future. Also check the issues page.