# Automotive Message Broker Daemon {#ambd}

Version 0.15

## Introduction

Automotive Message Broker is a vehicle network abstraction system.  It brokers information from the vehicle
to applications.  It provides application with a rich API for accessing vehicle data.

Automotive Message Broker is built using CMake and requires libltdl (libtool), libjson-c, and boost packages.

## Git
About the Git Tree:
'master' is expected to be unstable and may not even compile.  If you want something more stable, checkout one of the
release branches (ie, 0.9.0, 0.10, etc)

## Building

To build:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~{.bash}
cd automotive-message-broker
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
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## Installing

To install:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~{.bash}
sudo make install
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## Running
To run:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~{.bash}
ambd
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*also see **ambd -h** for additional command line options*

## Configuration

For information on ambd's configuration, please see ambd-configuration.idl.

## Running with the Qt mainloop:

Some source and sink plugins may want to use the Qt-based mainloop to take advantage of Qt features. To enable
the Qt mainloop, run cmake with -Duse_qtcore=On:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~{.bash}
cmake .. -Dqtmainloop=On
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You will also need to edit your config to enable the Qt-based mainloop:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~{.json}
{
	"mainloop" : "/PLUGIN_INSTALL_PATH/qtmainloopplugin.so",
	"plugins" : "/etc/ambd/plugins.d"
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

NOTE: by default the glib mainloop will be used.

## Questions/Issues/Comments:

Questions or Comments can be emailed to the amb mailing list:
**amb at lists.01.org**

Issues and Feature requests can be submitted on our github page:
https://github.com/otcshare/automotive-message-broker/issues