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a Python API for your car

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2017-07-10 · latest 2026-01-25

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  1. Yea most modern cars have a Python API. https://github.com/commaai/opendbc
    comment by georgehotz · 2026-01-25 · in Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
  2. …message on the bus? That is typically in the hands of the OEMs, not ECU vendors. See for example https://github.com/commaai/opendbc Quite old and for Wundows, but a lot of code showing how to use a lot of CAN interface boxes is at…
    comment by jeffreygoesto · 2023-04-05 · in CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
  3. …http://socialledge.com/sjsu/index.php/DBC_Format * OpenDBC: democratize access to car decoder rings: https://github.com/commaai/opendbc
    comment by adolph · 2022-07-19 · in I Hacked My Car Guides: Creating Custom Firmware
  4. …Supported cars have most signals defined in a dbc file, the mapping from name to id and bytes. See https://github.com/commaai/opendbc This results in much cleaner car abstraction layers: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/de0ce142ae5…
    comment by pd0wm · 2021-08-01 · in Comma Three Devkit
  5. …at least one repo [1] of DBC files that have already been reverse-engineered by the community [1] https://github.com/commaai/opendbc
    comment by zro · 2020-01-14 · in Show HN: Cantools – an extensive set of CAN bus tools
  6. Keep an eye on projects like this: https://github.com/commaai/opendbc
    comment by problems · 2017-07-10 · in EU Prepares "Right to Repair" Legislation to Fight Short Product Lifespans