DroneCAN GUI Tool
- Software
- Drones and boats
- Tool
A cross-platform desktop application for managing and diagnosing DroneCAN and UAVCAN v0.9 devices on a CAN bus. It runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Made by DroneCAN.
Source on GitHub: github.com/dronecan/gui_tool (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 0058e27 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- MIT (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit 0058e27 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides management and diagnostics for UAVCAN v0.9 and DroneCAN V1 nodes.
- Runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, with a Windows MSI installer available.
- Installs on Linux via pip from the Git repository, after installing PyQt6 through the system package manager.
- Adds desktop menu entries and a dronecan_gui_tool executable on Linux.
- Includes an embedded IPython console, and Matplotlib is recommended alongside it for plotting.
- On macOS, installation does not create an applications menu entry; Homebrew or MacPorts are used instead.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 0058e27.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 31 Aug 2026 on master
- Latest release
- v1.2.28 (25 Feb 2025)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
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