CanSignal

Information about a single controller area network (CAN) signal and the messages it receives and transmits.

AutomotiveConnected VehiclesIoTTelematicsVehicle Data

Properties

Name Type Description
messageId object
isBigEndian object
isSigned object
startBit object
offset object
factor object
length object
name object
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JSON Schema

iot-fleetwise-can-signal-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-iot-fleetwise/refs/heads/main/json-schema/iot-fleetwise-can-signal-schema.json",
  "title": "CanSignal",
  "description": "Information about a single controller area network (CAN) signal and the messages it receives and transmits.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "messageId": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/nonNegativeInteger"
        },
        {
          "description": "The ID of the message."
        }
      ]
    },
    "isBigEndian": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/boolean"
        },
        {
          "description": "Whether the byte ordering of a CAN message is big-endian."
        }
      ]
    },
    "isSigned": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/boolean"
        },
        {
          "description": "Whether the message data is specified as a signed value."
        }
      ]
    },
    "startBit": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/nonNegativeInteger"
        },
        {
          "description": "<p>Indicates the beginning of the CAN signal. This should always be the least significant bit (LSB).</p> <p>This value might be different from the value in a DBC file. For little endian signals, <code>startBit</code> is the same value as in the DBC file. For big endian signals in a DBC file, the start bit is the most significant bit (MSB). You will have to calculate the LSB instead and pass it as the <code>startBit</code>.</p>"
        }
      ]
    },
    "offset": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/double"
        },
        {
          "description": "The offset used to calculate the signal value. Combined with factor, the calculation is <code>value = raw_value * factor + offset</code>."
        }
      ]
    },
    "factor": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/double"
        },
        {
          "description": "A multiplier used to decode the CAN message."
        }
      ]
    },
    "length": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/nonNegativeInteger"
        },
        {
          "description": "How many bytes of data are in the message."
        }
      ]
    },
    "name": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/CanSignalName"
        },
        {
          "description": "The name of the signal."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "messageId",
    "isBigEndian",
    "isSigned",
    "startBit",
    "offset",
    "factor",
    "length"
  ]
}

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