4. Software Setup

4.1. Vehicle Spy

Vehicle Spy is Intrepid’s “Swiss Army Knife” of network development software. If you purchased a license of Vehicle Spy software along with your hardware, installation instructions should have been included with the hardware delivery. If you are unable to find the software installation and licensing information, please contact Customer Support. They will be able to confirm the version of software purchased and provide the software installation package and licensing files for your device.

Once you have Vehicle Spy installed, reference the Vehicle Spy Documentation for tutorials to familiarize yourself with all of the software’s capabilities.

4.2. Intrepid’s Open Source API (libicsneo )

Vehicle Spy is not required to use Intrepid’s hardware. If all of the features of Vehicle Spy are not needed, it may be more cost effective to create custom software to meet the needs of an application. There might also be OEM specific use cases, that require custom software. In these cases, libicsneo is the Intrepid Control Systems device communication library allowing the use of Intrepid hardware with other software packages or custom-written software.

If Vehicle Spy has not been installed, it will be necessary to install Intrepid’s device drivers and hardware configuration utility. Your device should have arrived with an installation package containing this software. If the media containing this software is no longer available, the ICS Hardware Installation Kit can be downloaded on the Intrepid website.

Once the ICS Hardware Installation Kit has been installed, use the following links for installation and usage documentation of the three APIs of libicsneo.

4.2.1. C++ API

4.2.2. Python API

4.2.3. C API

If you are having trouble finding or installing the software, please contact our Customer Support