Can Lab View Monitor and collect data on a CAN network?

[jraynor196]

I am interested in monitoring and collecting data on one or more CAN automotive networks.  Can lab view software support that out of the box?

Do I need any specific hardware or hardware drivers to support it?

Thanks,

Jon

[Guruthilak]

Yes .LabVIEW supports this.

If you have already a software that sniffs the data for you, then check whether "That" software has some dll or application written to transfer the data to LabVIEW. (a software approch and you dont have to invest more on new hardware)

If not, NI have a variety of h/w for supporting the same which could be found here

Guru

[JB]

You might be interested to know that MAX is able to monitor the CAN bus and to log the data without any programming. See here for more details about the CAN bus monitor. Depending on what you are trying to do, this could be an easy and rapid solution. You could then use LabVIEW to analyze the log files.

[JB]

You might also be interested in Eugen Graf's CAN Terminal. This is a well written tool.

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