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CAN Message Definitions

CAN Messages for Rivanna3. Messages from Rivanna2 are under the Rivanna2 branch.

Software Installation

  1. Clone this repo
  2. Install cantools by running py -m pip install cantools
    • Note that you may need to use python or python3 instead of py
  3. Install Kvaser Database Editor
    • Version 3 recommended

Use

  1. Use the Kvaser Database Editor to modify or create DBC files that define our CAN messages
  2. To generate C CAN structs, run cantools generate_c_source {path}, replacing path with the path of the DBC file
  3. To generate the 'wrapper' header files for each message type, run py generate.py {DBC file path}
  4. Add a message ID entry to Common/include/CANStructMessageIDs.h