ACUDPClient

ACUDPClient is a Python module that can be used to communicate with an Assetto Corsa dedicated server. Using its UDP protocol, real time telemetry, lap timings and session information is pushed to the client. A few actions, like sending/broadcasting messages are also available.

Installation

$ python setup.py install

or

$ pip install acudpclient

Testing

$ pytest

Usage

The client should be initialized like this:

from acudpclient.client import ACUDPClient

client = ACUDPClient(port=10000, remote_port=10001, host='127.0.0.1')
client.listen()

• remote_port and host are used to send data to the AC server
• listen() will bind the server socket to port.

Server events can be handled directly or by event subscribers. In both cases, get_next_event() method must be invoked in the application's main loop.

When handling events directly, a call to get_next_event() might return None, meaning there's no event available at that point (the internal ACUDPClient socket is non-blocking).

When creating a subscriber class, specific events can be handled by creating methods with the following naming scheme on_<event_type>(self, event) where event_type is any of the types found in acudpclient.protocol.ACUDPConst class (see Usage).

Events passed to on_<event_type>(self, event) are dictionaries containing different keys depending on the event's type. Refer to acudpclient.client import ACUDPClient to see which keys are available per event type.

Examples

Handle events directly: examples/print_events.py

Handle events with a subscriber: examples/print_events_pubsub.py

Capturing real data for testing purposes

1. Start the ACServer with UDP active.

2. Capture the data using tcpdump:

$ tcpdump -w /tmp/ac_out.pcap -s0 -i lo -n udp dst port 10000

3. Extract all udp payload from the pcap file:

$ tshark -r /tmp/ac_out.pcap -T fields -e data | tr -d '\n' | perl -pe 's/([0-9a-f]{2})/chr hex $1/gie' > /tmp/ac_out

4. /tmp/ac_out contains binary data sent by ACServer.