hardbyte / hardbyte/python-can

Add a beginner-friendly way to determine the right interface for your device

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Description

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Often (a few times a month?) new users are asking whether their spoecific device is supported by this library and which one they should use.

**Describe the solution you'd like**
Maybe, we should add some specific supported devices to the interface documentation pages each? The perfect solution would be a script that finds the correct one, but that is probably tricky to implement. Although, there *is* the [`can.detect_available_configs`](https://python-can.readthedocs.io/en/2.2.0/api.html#can.util.can.detect_available_configs) that probably no one knows of and is not implemented everywhere.

**Describe alternatives you've considered**
None so far.

**Additional context**
I know that there isn't too much development going on right now but I think this issue is still worth tracking. Such a guide or improved documentation is also not going to stop these issues completely, I know.

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