CANExplorer

CANExplorer is a cross-platform tool to monitor, analyse, diagnose and simulate CAN, CAN FD and LIN buses. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS with any interface supported by python-can, and without hardware on a virtual bus.

Features

• Monitoring

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  Trace and per-identifier overview, display filters, bus load and error statistics, pause, copy and export.

  Trace and overview

• Signal databases

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  Decode signals with DBC, BUSMASTER DBF, AUTOSAR ARXML, KCD, SYM and LIN LDF files, plot them live and convert between the formats.

  Signal databases

• Recording and replay

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  Record to ASC, BLF, CSV, LOG, TRC, SQLite and MF4 files, replay them with their original timing and compare two recordings.

  Recording and replay

• Diagnostics

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  UDS over ISO-TP and the LIN transport layer, with DTCs, security access, CANdelaStudio CDD descriptions and ECU flashing.

  Diagnostics

• Protocols

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  Decoding of ISO-TP, UDS, J1939, CANopen and LIN; J1939 network and trouble code tools, a CANopen master and LIN master schedule tables.

  Protocol decoding

• Simulation and scripting

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  Simulated bus nodes in Python and control panels in QML, like CAPL nodes and panels.

  Simulation and scripting

Where to start

• New to CANExplorer? Follow the quick start: it needs no hardware.
• Looking for a specific feature? The user guide describes every part of the application.
• Writing simulation scripts or panels? See the scripting API and the QML panel API.
• Working on CANExplorer itself? Start with the architecture.

CANExplorer is open source, developed on GitHub.