Library API

The main objects are the BusABC and the Message. A form of CAN interface is also required.

Hint

Check the backend specific documentation for any implementation specific details.

• Bus
• Thread safe bus
• Message
• Listeners
• Asyncio support
• Broadcast Manager
• Bit Timing Configuration
• Internal API

Utilities

can.detect_available_configs(interfaces=None)

Detect all configurations/channels that the interfaces could currently connect with.

This might be quite time consuming.

Automated configuration detection may not be implemented by every interface on every platform. This method will not raise an error in that case, but with rather return an empty list for that interface.

Parameters:interfaces – either - the name of an interface to be searched in as a string, - an iterable of interface names to search in, or - None to search in all known interfaces. Return type:list[dict] Returns:an iterable of dicts, each suitable for usage in the constructor of can.BusABC.

Notifier

The Notifier object is used as a message distributor for a bus. Notifier creates a thread to read messages from the bus and distributes them to listeners.

class can.Notifier(bus, listeners, timeout=1.0, loop=None)

Bases: object

Manages the distribution of can.Message instances to listeners.

Supports multiple buses and listeners.

Note

Remember to call stop() after all messages are received as many listeners carry out flush operations to persist data.

Parameters:

• bus (BusABC) – A Bus or a list of buses to listen to.
• listeners (Iterable[Listener]) – An iterable of Listener
• timeout (float) – An optional maximum number of seconds to wait for any message.
• loop (Optional[AbstractEventLoop]) – An asyncio event loop to schedule listeners in.

add_bus(bus)

Add a bus for notification.

Parameters:bus (BusABC) – CAN bus instance.

add_listener(listener)

Add new Listener to the notification list. If it is already present, it will be called two times each time a message arrives.

Parameters:listener (Listener) – Listener to be added to the list to be notified

exception = None

Exception raised in thread

remove_listener(listener)

Remove a listener from the notification list. This method throws an exception if the given listener is not part of the stored listeners.

Parameters:listener (Listener) – Listener to be removed from the list to be notified Raises:ValueError – if listener was never added to this notifier

stop(timeout=5)

Stop notifying Listeners when new Message objects arrive and call stop() on each Listener.

Parameters:timeout (float) – Max time in seconds to wait for receive threads to finish. Should be longer than timeout given at instantiation.

Errors

class can.CanError

Bases: OSError

Indicates an error with the CAN network.