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Check the car's identity before sending on the bus

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
rust
Domain
embedded-iot

Research direction

Read the design and open questions in linked issue #12 first; this issue gives no file, test, or entry point to start from. The requested behavior is to check the car on each boot before sending any CAN message, likely using the VIN, and confirm whether the platform supports it. Done means unsupported cars are detected before any CAN message is sent, with the design details resolved from issue #12.

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Description

Part of https://github.com/OpenCarControls/firmware/issues/12, which has the design and open questions.

On each boot, before sending any CAN message, each platform confirms it's plugged into a car it supports (VIN is probably a good way).

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Rust
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