github.com/rzetterberg/elmobd (go): Package elmobd provides communication with cars OBD-II system using ELM327 based USB-devices.  Using this library and a ELM327-based USB-device you can communicate with your cars on-board diagnostics system to read sensor data. Reading trouble codes and resetting them is not yet implemented.  All assumptions this library makes are based on the official Elm Electronics datasheet of the ELM327 IC: https://www.elmelectronics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ELM327DS.pdf  After that introduction - Welcome! I hope you'll find this library useful and its documentation easy to digest. If that's not the case, please create a GitHub-issue: https://github.com/rzetterberg/elmobd/issues  You'll note that this package has the majority its types and functions exported. The reason for that is that there are many different commands you can send to a ELM327 device, and this library will never we able to define all commands, so most functionality is exported so that you can easily extend it.  You'll also note that there are A LOT of types. The reason for this is each command that can be sent to the ELM327 device is defined as it's own type. The approach I wanted to take with this library was to get as much type safety as possible.  With that said, as an end user of this library you'll only need to know about two kinds types: the Device type and types that implement the OBDCommand interface.  The Device type represents an active connection with an ELM327 device. You plug in your device into your computer, get the path to the device and initialize a new device:  This library is design to be as high level as possible, you shouldn't need to handle baud rates, setting protocols or anything like that. After the Device has been initialized you can just start sending commands.  The function you will be using the most is the Device.RunOBDCommand, which accepts a command, sends the command to the device, waits for a response, parses the response and gives it back to you. Which means this command is blocking execution until it has been finished. The default timeout is currently set to 5 seconds.  The RunOBDCommand accepts a single argument, a type that implements the OBDCommand interface. That interface has a couple of functions that needs to exist in order to be able to generate the low-level request for the device and parse the low-level response. Basically you send in an empty OBDCommand and get back a OBDCommand with the processed value retrieved from the device.  Suppose that after checking the device connection (in our example above) we would like to retrieve the vehicles speed. There's a type called VehicleSpeed that implements the OBDCommand interface that we can use. We start by creating a new VehicleSpeed using its constructor NewVehicleSpeed that we then give to RunOBDCommand:  At the moment there are around 15 sensor commands defined in this library. They are all defined in the file commands.go of the library (https://github.com/rzetterberg/elmobd/blob/master/commands.go). If you look in the end of that file you'll find an internal static variable with all the sensor commands called sensorCommands.  That's the basics of this library - you create a device connection and then run commands. Documentation of more advanced use-cases is in the works, so don't worry! If there's something that you wish would be documented, or something that is not clear in the current documentation, please create a GitHub-issue.
Keywords: automotive|cars|go|golang|obd-ii|obd2