DroneCAN GUI Tool

DroneCAN GUI Tool is a cross-platform free open source application for DroneCAN bus management and diagnostics. It runs on Windows, Linux, and OSX.

• Real time monitoring of CAN bus and DroneCAN transfer dissection.
• Plotting values in real time.
• Remote node reconfiguration (uavcan.protocol.param).
• Firmware update on remote nodes.
• Python scripting from the embedded IPython console.
• Different CAN adapter backends supported:
  • ArduPilot SLCAN on USB using the 2nd USB endpoint on F7 and H7 flight controllers
  • SLCAN (aka LAWICEL) adapters, e.g. Zubax Babel.
  • Linux SocketCAN.

Installation

Windows

Download and install the latest MSI package from https://firmware.ardupilot.org/Tools/CAN_GUI/.

Linux

Note that if you’re using a USB SLCAN adapter, it may be necessary to configure serial port access permissions.

Ubuntu, Mint, and other Debian-based distros

sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-wheel
sudo apt-get install -y python3-numpy python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtsvg git-core
sudo pip3 install dronecan
sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/DroneCAN/gui_tool@master

Other distributions

Please refer to the README file in the source repository: https://github.com/DroneCAN/gui_tool.

OSX

Please refer to the README file in the source repository: https://github.com/DroneCAN/gui_tool.

Feedback

Direct your questions and feedback to the discussion area.

Pull requests and bug reports are welcome at the GitHub repository at https://github.com/DroneCAN/gui_tool.