CANtact support

[romain145]

Is there a plan to support the CANtact / CANable / CANable Pro interfaces running the stock slcan firmware (serial) or the candleLight firmware?

[collin80]

SavvyCAN supports socketcan so if you're running candlelight then you can use socketcan. Slcan should work as well as that's also socketcan.

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[romain145]

Using the candleLight firmware (flashed here https://canable.io/updater/) the port list is empty.
I tried passthrucan, peakcan, systeccan, tinycan (shows a can0.0 anyway) and vectorcan.

Testing on Windows 10 btw.

[collin80]

Oh sorry, I should have been more clear. SocketCAN interfaces only work on LINUX. I don't think the candlelight firmware will do much for you on Windows. For supporting cantact devices on Windows I will have to more directly target the CANtact communications protocol. I do think that would be worthwhile for me to do. Otherwise your options on Windows for that hardware pretty much boil down to Busmaster. That program is very feature rich but not the features people tend to actually need. It's more for large automotive companies that are doing internal testing of their hardware. So, I do think that CANtact/CANable users could use some more options.

[mitchdetailed]

Romain, use Linux in a VM with the Candlelight firmware + canable if you're needing a Windows based solution.. Candlelight will work with socketcan natively without using slcand commands. (sudo ip link set up can0 type can bitrate #######) Then pull up the needed interface in Linux VM on windows.

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On Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 3:05 AM Romain ***@***.***> wrote: Using the candleLight firmware (flashed here https://canable.io/updater/) the port list is empty. I tried passthrucan, peakcan, systeccan, tinycan (shows a can0.0 anyway) and vectorcan. Testing on Windows 10 btw. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#238 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AI62NLWNLPSKGCPAIIX5XQ3SAJEMLANCNFSM4P3Q2HLQ> .

[Alia5]

Using a VM sucks, though.
It's also not just windows, but also MacOS

I give my +1 to this feature request.

I guess an implementation of the candleInterface can be found here

Edit: fix typos

[collin80]

Hmmm, interesting, yes that does appear to be a Windows driver for the candlelight API. I will look into supporting that.

[BennyEvans]

I realise this is an old issue, but has there been any further investigation on supporting these devices in SavvyCAN under Windows?

[collin80]

I never did look into it. I just went to that link and bookmarked it. I'll see what I can do.

[ElektronikCZ]

Windows has candlelight support out of the box with no driver install needed. I also give +1 to this request, and im hoping you atleast looked into it. Its annoying to flash a different firmware in my can tool just for savvycan

[Alia5]

Meanwhile:

WSL2 + Custom kernel (to include can-bus stuff) + usbipd-win.

And then just use savvycan on the wsl

[gromgsxr]

is support likely to get added for this?

[collin80]

Someday, probably. But, as covered above, CANTact support works fine through the socketcan interface on Linux so using WSL could work. It's certainly not ideal. I really should implement actual support in Windows one of these days.

[mitchdetailed]

could always port the pcan code to the cantact.

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[gadjex]

Came here from Google search looking for the same thing, support for CANable in Windows. Would be nice if this was done.

[gromgsxr]

Someday, probably. But, as covered above, CANTact support works fine through the socketcan interface on Linux so using WSL could work. It's certainly not ideal. I really should implement actual support in Windows one of these days.

Direct windows support would be just awesome