CAN bus / OBD-II translator

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In a similar project to CarLoop, I put some hardware and software together to record my truck’s OBD-II. (Electron especially makes it so easy!) Anyway, all was successful except running small data translations from CAN to something human readable and python plottable for debugging and initial analysis… After a whole lot of digging I finally ended up with something more or less complete, at least for my purposes, so I figured I’d try to help others out:

http://www.brettsbeta.com/bottlecan/

Just paste in raw CAN data and click translate to get a CSV out.

Please let me know if this is useful – maybe I’ll put the whole project out there someday.

Cheers,
Brett

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@bheliker,

That is a cool utility. I would like to see the whole project … eventually I would like to process race car data, which would use up too much of your website bandwidth.

We would love to see the project over at community.carloop.io also!

Thanks!

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Thanks. Have you read this Mapr article?: https://mapr.com/blog/fast-cars-fast-data-formula1/

Good stuff on using it. I originally ran the code on the web site on a beagle bone, it kept up while only using about 4% of the processor. Then filtered down to just the PGNs I was interested in to run on the electron. The web form is just for hobbyists though :slight_smile: