.. module:: can.broadcastmanager
The broadcast manager allows the user to setup periodic message jobs. For example sending a particular message at a given period. The broadcast manager supported natively by several interfaces and a software thread based scheduler is used as a fallback.
This example shows the socketcan backend using the broadcast manager:
.. literalinclude:: ../examples/cyclic.py :language: python :linenos:
The class based api for the broadcast manager uses a series of mixin classes. All mixins inherit from :class:`~can.broadcastmanager.CyclicSendTaskABC` which inherits from :class:`~can.broadcastmanager.CyclicTask`.
.. autoclass:: can.broadcastmanager.CyclicTask :members:
.. autoclass:: can.broadcastmanager.CyclicSendTaskABC :members:
.. autoclass:: LimitedDurationCyclicSendTaskABC :members:
.. autoclass:: MultiRateCyclicSendTaskABC :members:
.. autoclass:: can.ModifiableCyclicTaskABC :members:
.. autoclass:: can.RestartableCyclicTaskABC :members: