CAN support

[schu4647]

Is there any plan to add CAN. Looking at Mikrobasic, it has a whole can library. Will this be happening with PBP.

[Christopher4187]

I am looking for an example of how to communicate with the CAN network. Our locomotive uses CAN for communication with the engine and I am looking to do something similar like you are doing. I am going to order the CAN communication board from Circuit-ED and start playing around with it. Can you share an example of transmitting and receiving with CAN?

Thanks,

Chris

[schu4647]

if you simply want to read the CAN, I would recommend just buying something like a NeoVI which is sold by intrepid control systems. (Best tool I have found) It will read and send any messages you want and you can set up the software to interpret the messages in a matter of minutes. If you want to actually use the data to perform a function on you PIC, microchip has a lot of useful documents on their site for doing CAN. It explains the protocol and some example circuits both using the on Chip can and a stand alone IC. I must warn you CAN is a pretty complicated protocol.