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# arduino-canbus-monitor

CAN BUS monitoring software based on Arduino with Seeduino/ElecFreaks CAN BUS shield based on MCP2515.
Implements CAN ASCII / SLCAN protocol compatible with Lawicel CAN232/CANUSB.
CAN BUS monitoring software based on Arduino with Seeduino/ElecFreaks CAN BUS shield based on MCP2515 (Numerous other MCP2515 based CAN BUS modules from ebay and aliexpress work well to).

This software implements CAN ASCII / Serial CAN / SLCAN protocol compatible with Lawicel CAN232/CANUSB.

I might recommend CANHacker tool v.2.00.01 (by fuchs) to sniff and visualize data on the bus. You can download CANHacker tool from this forum page: http://www.canhack.net/viewforum.php?f=25&sid=ac01d465f19e088cb160cab630561607

NB! Unfortunately it looks like that CANHacker tool have issues connecting under Windows 10.

Another tool which works good for me is CAN-COOL from MHS Elektronik, which is open source, but unfortunaly available only in German. Work well under Windows 10. Download link: http://www.mhs-elektronik.de/index.php?module=content&action=show&page=can_cool

This monitor uses CAN BUS library forked from https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/CAN_BUS_Shield.

Copyright (C) 2015 Anton Viktorov <[email protected]>
Copyright (C) 2015,2016 Anton Viktorov <[email protected]>

See protocol definition here http://www.can232.com/docs/can232_v3.pdf and here http://www.can232.com/docs/canusb_manual.pdf

Commands not supported/not implemented:
- s, W, M, m, U.

Commands modified:
- S - supports not declared 83.3 rate, refer to https://github.com/latonita/CAN_BUS_Shield fork
- S - supports not declared 83.3 rate
- F - returns MCP2515 error flags
- Z - extra Z2 option enables 4 byte timestamp vs standard 2 byte (60000ms max)

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