Index: dialin/utils/base.py
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diff -u -r287af45040e35882e001fb3ea835f304007870c4 -r149731110e78bdf58e6b5872b545a79dfbee1fb1
--- dialin/utils/base.py	(.../base.py)	(revision 287af45040e35882e001fb3ea835f304007870c4)
+++ dialin/utils/base.py	(.../base.py)	(revision 149731110e78bdf58e6b5872b545a79dfbee1fb1)
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
         print("Failure")
         return False
 
+
 def bring_interface_down(interface: str = "can0", delete=False):
     """
     Brings the specified can interface down
@@ -142,6 +143,7 @@
             return True
     return False
 
+
 def setup_can(interface: str = "can0", is_virtual=False, bitrate=250000, restart_ms=100, txqueue=10000):
     """
     Convenience function to setup a can interface
@@ -177,12 +179,13 @@
         print("Warning: Could not set txtqueue length: {0}".format(cmd_txqueue))
 
 
-def create_logger(log_path: str = "/tmp/DialinScript.log", level: str = "ERROR"):
+def create_logger(log_path: str = "/tmp/DialinScript.log", level: str = "ERROR", enable_metadata=True):
     """
     Convenience function to create a logger for external Dialin scripts
 
     @param log_path: (str) The full path to the output log file.
     @param level: (str) The logging level (e.g. INFO, WARN, DEBUG, ERROR, CRITICAL)
+    @param enable_metadata: (bool) if True, include metadata, otherwise, log only the message
     @return: (logging.Logger) The logger object
     """
 
@@ -195,8 +198,11 @@
     fh.setLevel(numeric_level)
     ch = logging.StreamHandler()
     ch.setLevel(numeric_level)
-    formatter = logging.Formatter(fmt=_LogManager.LOG_FMT,
+    if enable_metadata:
+        formatter = logging.Formatter(fmt=_LogManager.LOG_FMT,
                                   datefmt=_LogManager.LOG_DT_FMT)
+    else:
+        formatter = logging.Formatter(fmt=_LogManager.LOG_FMT_NO_METADATA)
     fh.setFormatter(formatter)
     ch.setFormatter(formatter)
 
@@ -270,6 +276,7 @@
 class _LogManager(ABC):
 
     LOG_FMT = '%(asctime)s,%(msecs)d %(levelname)-8s [%(filename)s:%(lineno)d] %(message)s'
+    LOG_FMT_NO_METADATA = '%(message)s'
     LOG_DT_FMT = '%m-%d-%Y:%H:%M:%S'
 
     def __init__(self, log_level=None, log_filepath="Dialin.log"):