Take around 1 day to learn to use,was used for diagnose an automotive set of switches with excellent results,running smothly without issues into raspberry,python tools are amazing working with this gadget,size of pcb is tiny and very handable,i recommend as a bench and design tools for every project using CAN and UDS Protocol.

Faraz | May 10, 2018

Great when used with the candlelight fw on linux!

For CANable USB to CAN Bus Adapter

I have 3 of these and it works amazingly but only when I reflashed them with the candlelight fw. Using slcan the performance is questionable at best under Linux and the device would frequently stop working.

Christian | April 25, 2018

Simply rocks!

For CANable USB to CAN Bus Adapter

The hardware is rock solid. I actually ordered 10 for my team and they are in use daily!

I just wish *somebody* had a 3D printed case for them

Michael | Feb. 5, 2018

Incredible product!

For CANable USB to CAN Bus Adapter

The CANable is an amazingly reliable, easy to use, fun, useful and accurate product! The features, size, and price make CANable the best CAN interface to use for your personal, and professional projects...

Mykola | Dec. 7, 2017

Perfect device!

For CANable USB to CAN Bus Adapter

- Works as expected
- Top quality of manufacturing
- Short but ample and understandable description
- Fast shipping

Daniel | Feb. 8, 2017

Functional option for CAN sniffing on various platforms

For CANable USB to CAN Bus Adapter

I have prior experience using Kvaser and Vector hardware to interface with CAN. Unfortunately I am not in a postion to purchase one of these devices for myself. The CANable has worked well to log CAN traffic on my car, and will talk to a CAN arduino shield that I have connected it with. The CANable itself is very simple to use, any issues that I have had so far are entirely due to my lack of experience with SocketCAN. A cheap arduino clone with a minimalist CAN shield will run about the same price as this, but I feel that the CANable is still a better option.

Steffen | Dec. 19, 2016

Best CAN- Device :-)

For CANable USB to CAN Bus Adapter

Regarding price, size and usability the CANable is the best USB to CAN Adapter I've seen. The tiny PCB has all connections it needs, and firmware-wise we moved away from the original slcan to an gs_usb driver (https://github.com/nexulm/candleLight_fw), which has the advantage that the bus parameters can also be changed after first initialization (in opposite to slcan) through the normal socketcan api. So since a few days the device is now in testing, and up to now is works as it should without any problems.
So I can recommend the CANable to everybody who easily wants to connect his socketcan environment via USB to any can bus around.

(the ranking for documentation & Communication are only placeholder, as we both didn't need)

Response from Protofusion Labs | Dec. 24, 2016

Thanks for the review Steffen! I just tried out the candleLight firmware on some CANables, and it works great. Having direct kernel support without SocketCAN is awesome. I'll add the candleLight firmware to our documentation soon!

Tindie

Protofusion Labs

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Great tool

Great when used with the candlelight fw on linux!

Simply rocks!

Incredible product!

Perfect device!

Functional option for CAN sniffing on various platforms

Best CAN- Device :-)

Response from Protofusion Labs | Dec. 24, 2016