tsugite 0.4.2

System-oriented dashboards for DroneCAN & Cyphal (YAML-powered)

Tsugite

A system-oriented dashboard for Cyphal (CAN + UDP) & DroneCAN. Render live panels from a YAML manifest - so you watch the system, not just the bus.

🪵 “Tsugite” (継ぎ手) - a Japanese word for traditional wood joinery - symbolizes how separate modules fit together into one solid structure, just like nodes in your robotics system.

Why this exists

Most tools are bus-oriented (frames/subjects). Field work needs system-oriented views:

• “Is my VTOL healthy? Which nodes are missing?
• "Are critical topics alive?”
• “Can I monitor it remotely - from my laptop or tablet?”

Tsugite answers with:

• A YAML system manifest that defines your expected nodes, panels, and topics.
• A backend that speaks Cyphal (CAN + UDP) & DroneCAN.
• A desktop GUI (PySide6) that dynamically renders dashboards (More frontends are considered to be added later).

Usage

Latest stable version:

pip install "tsugite[dronecan]"

tsugite --help

Latest test version:

pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ "tsugite[dronecan]"

For devs:

git clone [e-mail]:PonomarevDA/tsugite.git
pip install .[all]

MVP scope

• ✅ Transports: SocketCAN / SLCAN (Linux, macOS, Windows where supported), UDP (Cyphal).
• ✅ Protocols: Cyphal, DroneCAN.
• ✅ YAML manifest: Define nodes, panels, widgets, and data bindings.
• ✅ Widgets: Dynamic system panels with labels, buttons, GPS, and plotting.
• ✅ Node list: Health, uptime, firmware version, voltages, temperature, and bootloader state.
• ✅ Parameters panel: Inspect and modify node parameters.
• ✅ Component QA (Node-level, active): run automated node-level tests to verify firmware, parameters, and behavior compliance — ensuring each device meets specification before deployment.
• ✅ Bus analysis (System-level, passive): review overall system traffic, measure total and per-node bandwidth, and detect missing frames or termination issues — a non-intrusive pre-flight consistency check.
• ✅ CLI launcher: tsugite or python -m tsugite.cli to run the GUI.