Telemetry Logging and Analysis ApplicationPC 

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I'm happy to announce the launch of "pCARS Telemetry" - a telemetry logging and analysis application for Project CARS.

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Session Manager
  • record, save and load any number of sessions
  • real time session timing and plotting as you record
  • automatic saving and unloading of recorded sessions

Session Info Display
  • display details for A, B and selected sessions
  • add notes to sessions

Client/server
  • connect to pCARS locally, or over the LAN or the Internet using the server
  • the server supports multiple clients, enabling e.g. a dashboard over LAN and a race engineer over Internet

Plotter(s)
  • each plotter can display any number of lanes
  • each lane can display any number of graphs
  • each graph has configurable plotting styles
  • drag to size and normal zooming
  • AB comparison of any two sessions and any lap ranges
  • absolute measurement cursor
  • delta measurement cursors
  • split cursors for separate measurements per lane
Trackmap
  • generator to capture 'proper' track maps with several display modes
  • A and B driven lines can show two telemetry parameters
  • shows absolute and delta cursor positions
  • zoom and pan, with follow cursor option

Dashboard
  • framework for scriptable dashboard design
  • multiple dashboards driven by loaded sessions, live sessions or scripts

Scripting
  • integrated scripting engine using the Lua language
  • automate the application
  • perform data analysis and processing
  • build simple GUIs to for integrated and interactive application extensions
  • "micro IDE" for editing and running scripts
  • script manager for installing and managing your favourite scripts

General
  • parameter manager, with user editable parameter color, range etc.
  • dockable window interface for custom layouts
  • saving and loading of window layouts
  • saving and loading of single and all plotter setups
  • printing support
  • bitmap export
  • automatically maintains connection with the sim

Planned features
  • more to come... community input welcome...

Download and installation

The current 64 bit version, 0.12, can be downloaded here.

The current 32 bit version, 0.12, can be downloaded here.

The latest version of the user manual can be downloaded here.

If your virus software throws a warning, fear not, the installer has been scanned and cleared with Avast.

Version 0.12 is the first public release and any installed versions prior to v0.12 must be uninstalled in full before installing v0.12: Please remove the "C:\Users\Documents\pCARS Telemetry" folder, and delete the registry keys "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Leistad Systems Development" and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Leistad Systems Development".

The minimum OS requirement is Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, 32 or 64 bit.

Support

There's a support thread in the official Project CARS forum here, and there's a website here.

If the application crashes, please put the files "_crashlog.txt" and "_minidump.dmp" in a zip archive and attach it to a posting describing the circumstances of the crash. These files can be found in your "Documents/pCARS Telemetry" folder.

The distribution comes with some installed scripts which effectively are 'applets' that extend the application. They can be found in the folder "managed_scripts" inside the "pCARS_Telemetry" folder. They can be managed using the Script Manager. The scripts are using the gui library and have registered buttons on the Script Toolbar (the leftmost toolbar at the top of the window). Clicking these buttons will toggle the guis open and closed. The installed scripts are:

  • BigNums - showing a variable number of parameters in a row colum layout
  • CSV-Export - CSV telemetry data export
  • CursorStats - computes statistics for a parameter using the delta cursor pair for the range.
  • Dash1 - example instrument panel, speedometer, rev counter and timing
  • Dash2 - example instrument panel, speedometer, rev counter, timing and controls
  • Dash3 - example instrument panel, gauges for four selectable parameters
  • Dash4 - example instrument panel, temperatures, wear and g-forces
  • Dash5 - example instrument panel, "minigraphs" of a few parameters
  • GraphFilter - plots a graph with a low or high pass filter applied
  • Lap2Lap - plots the lap to lap difference for a parameter
  • LapHistogram - histogram tool applet
  • LapStats - tool for computing statistics for a parameter over a lap range
  • LiveaStats - shows live parameters with running averages and maxima
  • LiverNumsRecorder - performs ad hoc live recording. Saves to CSV files
  • RaceInfo - using dash_module.lua to create an race infor intrument panel
  • ScatterStats - tool to perform scatter plot and statistics for two parameters

So far the documentation is brief and incomplete - the user manual proper is a WIP. It can be found on the apps Help menu, or in the "Documents/pCARS Telemetry/manual" folder. In the manual folder you will find some additional text files. The file "user_manual.txt" is a general operations manual, the file "scripting_manual.txt" is the beginnings of a reference manual for the scripting, the file "dashboard_manual.txt" is the documentation for the dashboard framework. These are raw text files hacked together while coding, so they're not too friendly. Eventually it will all be reworked and included in UserManaul.pdf.

This posting will be kept updated as the project progresses.
 
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Suspension movement, power and torque isn't in the API data (yet!).

However, this app is scriptable, so you can write scripts to compute 'missing' values from those that are there. If you know the weight of a car, you could compute e.g. power and torque from other values (acceleration, rpm, time, distance etc.), and present it via a graph or by other means.
 
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Edit: added more maps!

Thanks to the work of the community a map pack update is now available, which brings the total to 48 maps.

The maps can be downloaded here.

Copy the contents of the “pCARS_Telemetry_maps.ZIP” archive to the “C:\Users\<username>\Documents\pCARS Telemetry\maps” folder. If you’re asked to overwrite any existing map files, answer yes, unless you have your own customised versions of those.

The maps are:

Autodromo Nazionale Monza Grand Prix
Autodromo Nazionale Monza Short
Azure Circuit Grand Prix
Bathurst
Brands Hatch Grand Prix
Brands Hatch Indy
Brno
Cadwell Club Circuit
Cadwell Grand Prix
Cadwell Woodland
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Club
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya National
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Donington Park Grand Prix
Dubai Autodrome Club
Dubai Autodrome Grand Prix
Dubai Autodrome International
Dubai Autodrome National
Hockenheim Grand Prix
Hockenheim National
Hockenheim Short
Imola Grand Prix
Le Mans Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans
Le Mans Le Circuit Bugatti
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Nordschleife Full
Nürburgring Grand Prix
Nürburgring MuellenBach
Nürburgring Sprint Short
Nürburgring Sprint
Oschersleben C Circuit
Oschersleben Grand Prix
Oschersleben National
Oulton Park Fosters
Oulton Park International
Oulton Park Island
Road America
Sakitto Grand Prix
Silverstone Grand Prix
Snetterton 100 Circuit
Snetterton 200 Circuit
Snetterton 300 Circuit
Sonoma Raceway Grand Prix
Watkins Glen International Grand Prix
Willow Springs International Raceway
Zhuhai International Circuit
Zolder Grand Prix
 
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Community member DragonSyr is unstoppable and has given us 6 more maps today. Big thanks to him and the others for making track maps, now at a total of 54 :)

Get them here.

Todays additions:

Sakitto Internationa
Sakitto National
Sakitto Sprint
Silverstone International
Silverstone National
Silverstone Stowe
 
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The telemetry data from the sim just give the overall temp for each tyre.

It'll work with a console. However, the filename of the session is not right currently. I've been away from this for a while, but expect to fix that issue soon.
 

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