Python
Kvaser DIN Rail – Remote Device With I/O Pins
In this article, we take a look at the Kvaser DIN Rail and how to control this device using CANlib. Overview HW The Kvaser DIN Rail family is a collection of Ethernet to CAN/CAN FD interfaces with support for I/O ports via add-on modules. The housing has a mounting clip that attaches to a 35...
Running Python wrapper on Linux
This is an update of an older blog post and is now taking advantage of the Python canlib package v1.6 and later. Today we take a look at how to setup and send a CAN message using Kvasers Python package canlib. For this example we use the Kvaser USBcan Pro 2xHS v2, but any Kvaser...
Digging deeper into kvmlib
This is the third post in a 4-part series about configuring and reading logged data using a Kvaser Memorator 2nd Generation device through kvmlib: 1 Getting started with kvmlib 2 Adding script and triggers to a configuration 3 Digging deeper into kvmlib 4 Configure an SD card using kvmlib In the first part we showed...
Adding script and triggers to a configuration
This is the second post in a 4-part series about configuring and reading logged data using a Kvaser Memorator 2nd Generation device through kvmlib: 1 Getting started with kvmlib 2 Adding script and triggers to a configuration 3 Digging deeper into kvmlib 4 Configure an SD card using kvmlib In the first part we showed how...
Getting started with kvmlib
This is the first post in a 4-part series about configuring and reading logged data using a Kvaser Memorator 2nd Generation device through kvmlib: 1 Getting started with kvmlib 2 Adding script and triggers to a configuration 3 Digging deeper into kvmlib 4 Configure an SD card using kvmlib This first post will give an...
Improved API in Python canlib v1.5
In version 1.5 of the Python wrapper, a lot of improvements were made. Two new libraries were wrapped; LINlib, which holds the LIN bus API, and kvaDbLib which contains the Database API (and there will be some blog on how to use those in the future). The biggest change was however under the hood were...
Reading signals from log files
We have seen in earlier blog articles how to create a DBC database and how to use signals from the database while sending and receiving CAN traffic.1 This time we’ll take a look at how we can use the DBC database to show signals from logged data. Configure the logger In order to capture our...
Send and receive database signals
This is the second post in a 2-part series about how to manage DBC databases using the Kvaser database library (kvadblib) and Python: Handling CAN databases in Python Send and receive database signals In the first post we created a DBC database and took a peek inside to verify that we got what we...
Handling CAN databases in Python
This is the first post in a 2-part series about how to manage DBC databases using the Kvaser database library (kvadblib) and Python: Handling CAN databases in Python Send and receive database signals With the release of CANlib SDK v5.22, the database library (kvaDbLib) has been overhauled and the Python canlib wrapper package (v1.5) have...
Converting to plain ASCII
This is an update of an older blog post and is now taking advantage of the Python canlib package v1.7. This is the second post in a 3-part series about using the Converter Library (kvlclib) in CANlib SDK: Writer formats and properties (1 of 3) Converting to plain ASCII (2 of 3) Special converter conditions...
