CANtact-app

CANtact-app is an open source software tool for interfacing with Controller Area Network systems from the desktop. It is primarily intended to be used with the CANtact hardware, but should work with any device that uses the LAWICEL protocol.

Screenshot

Installation

Prerequisites

The ant and netbeans packages.

Build

git clone https://github.com/linklayer/cantact-app
cd cantact-app
ant build

ant build requires a proper CLASSPATH. If you don't know what an appropriate CLASSPATH should be you can open the netbeans IDE (via netbeans) and view the IDE Log Output.

Features

Display of CAN bus trace
Live display, showing the most recent data for each frame
Simple transmission of CAN frames
Javascript scripting interface
ISOTP transmit and receive
Saving of CAN traces (in candump format)

TODO

OBD-II, and UDS protocol implementations
CAN databases and signal decoding