I wish we had real time coaching in GT7, so I’m building it

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Hey folks 👋

I’ve been playing GT7 for about 3 years now, usually floating around B/A ranks, top 3% delta on good days. A while back I tried PC sim racing and got exposed to all the coaching/telemetry tools out there. Honestly, it was eye-opening. Having proper feedback on braking, cornering, consistency… it completely changed how I thought about improving. But I came back to GT7 in the end. I just prefer the game, the feel, the community. The downside: nothing like those coaching tools exists here. Improvement is mostly trial and error, watching replays and ghosts, or grinding until something clicks.

I’m a Software Engineer in my day job, and I like to do pet projects. So I decided to take a shot at building a proper real-time coach for GT7 on the side.

Curious if anyone else has felt the same gap/wishing GT7 had the kind of coaching support that’s common on PC sims?

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To be clear: by “coaching,” I mean live in-game tools (think Trophi style feedback): while you’re driving, you’d receive live feedback about braking points, throttle application, racing lines, etc… There’s a lot of content out there for GT7, but nothing that helps while you’re actually driving.
 
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That would be awesome. But can you get all that information from GT7? The closest app to what you are saying that I tried is Racing Engineer, which works very well, it will tell you through audio your position, fuel remaining, lap, time... but for instance it can't give you the delta from the car ahead or behind because GT7 doesn't give that information.
 
Cnode02
Hey folks 👋

I’ve been playing GT7 for about 3 years now, usually floating around B/A ranks, top 3% delta on good days. A while back I tried PC sim racing and got exposed to all the coaching/telemetry tools out there. Honestly, it was eye-opening. Having proper feedback on braking, cornering, consistency… it completely changed how I thought about improving. But I came back to GT7 in the end. I just prefer the game, the feel, the community. The downside: nothing like those coaching tools exists here. Improvement is mostly trial and error, watching replays and ghosts, or grinding until something clicks.

I’m a Software Engineer in my day job, and I like to do pet projects. So I decided to take a shot at building a proper real-time coach for GT7 on the side.

Curious if anyone else has felt the same gap/wishing GT7 had the kind of coaching support that’s common on PC sims?

Edit:
To be clear: by “coaching,” I mean live in-game tools (think Trophi style feedback): while you’re driving, you’d receive live feedback about braking points, throttle application, racing lines, etc… There’s a lot of content out there for GT7, but nothing that helps while you’re actually driving.
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That’s a great idea!

I think you will find both a lot of useful data about the undocumented APIs and protocols and also some really cleaver people figuring this all out and doing some great things with it.

snimat

Thread 'Overview of GT7 Telemetry Software'

This thread is about GT7 telemetry software which was made possible by the discoveries in this thread: GT7 is compatible with motion rig ?

Users in that thread have reverse engineered the communication over UDP and developed some custom made telemetry software for Gran Turismo 7.

Included Data in Telemetry Output

Nenkai, tarnheld and others have laid the ground work interpreted all data transmitted. The documentation of their work can be found here

Telemetry Software

Name and DescriptionPriceImage
...

It’s very much an open source vibe, personally I use Ezio/Ezio Pro dashboard as I love the work and design that @Bornhall has made for it, just really good as are the other apps as well. Also they have been really clever in filling in the gaps that GT data leaves.

Good luck and can’t wait to see what comes out!
 

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