Cantools
Dev tools
can bus tools
SHOW HN2020
220points
80comments
#234of 3,028 in 2020
Top 8%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
6 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful and saves time at work
From 2 comments
Thanks for all your hard work! We used this constantly at $oldjob and it saved us a ton of time and effort.
zro on HNThank you for making cantools. I'm using it daily and enjoying how easy and powerful it is. Two other projects also deserve to be mentioned. The opendbc is attempt to make sense…
jmiskovic on HN
Well designed
From 1 comment
This looks well designed and thought out. Does anyone know if it has been applied to NMEA-2000 (a marine electronics flavor of CANbus)?
floathub on HN
Objections
README should explain what CAN bus is
From 1 comment
I would like to suggest that in your "About" suggestion you provide a short description what a "CAN bus" is (with links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus - or whatever you…
nocman on HN
Some argue CAN is well known enough not to need explanation
From 1 comment
If you saw a library for say Image Processing or cattle husbandry for Java/JVM would you insist that the project provide a description of “Java”? I’m going to guess if you’re…
samreight on HN
Requests
Add a CAN bus simulator
From 1 comment
What’s missing is a can bus sim
m3kw9 on HN
Support for canalyzer .asc format
From 1 comment
This seems to work with a candump format input, does it works with canalyzer *.asc format ?
seren on HN
Questions
Does it support NMEA-2000?
From 1 comment
This looks well designed and thought out. Does anyone know if it has been applied to NMEA-2000 (a marine electronics flavor of CANbus)?
floathub on HN
Alternatives named
python-can
From 1 comment
Here is another project for working with CAN: https://github.com/hardbyte/python-can I used it (as well as Cantools) for importing various CAN-specific data formats.
prostodata on HN
opendbc
From 1 comment
Thank you for making cantools. I'm using it daily and enjoying how easy and powerful it is. Two other projects also deserve to be mentioned. The opendbc is attempt to make sense…
jmiskovic on HN
CANboat
From 1 comment
Thank you for making cantools. I'm using it daily and enjoying how easy and powerful it is. Two other projects also deserve to be mentioned. The opendbc is attempt to make sense…
jmiskovic on HN
Intrepid Vehicle Spy
From 1 comment
Beautiful - I’ve been using Intrepid Vehicle Spy for awhile but the cost is hard to justify for a hobbyist.
t34543 on HN
CANoe
From 1 comment
We have been using proprietary CANoe for well over 6 years. Will evaluate this. But don't know if corporate will like it or not.
thbr99 on HN
Wireshark
From 1 comment
Throwing out there that Wireshark has CAN parsing ability. For any else of y'all that have been stuck with a legacy non standard CAN protocol running on industrial automation,…
monocasa on HN