CAN Bus: Serial Communication - How It Works?

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🔥What is the CAN serial communication protocol and how it works? We analyze the signals and create a CAN por with Arduino and ESP32.
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[@HowtoElectronics]

Absolutely fantastic video! Your clear and concise explanation of the CANBUS protocol has made it so much easier to understand. You did a great job of breaking down this complex topic into digestible chunks, and I truly appreciate your effort to educate us. I was struggling with some concepts, but your video cleared up many of my doubts. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and helping others like me to understand this better.

[@BitSmythe]

*FABULOUS video.* This will get me started. My Hyundai has two or three buttons that must be pressed EVERY time I start the car. The forums complain of this issue, but the dealer claims they “can’t” change the settings, it’s just that they won’t. So I expect I will be able to read the button presses, and then copy the bits that I need. _And with a little Arduino code, then be able to make my car save the settings _*_I_*_ (WE) want it to have._

[@mohamedabdelrehem7698]

i was looking for this exact video 2 days ago and you are here now to save me ♥♥

[@grottyboots]

Excellent explanation of differential signaling. Keep up the great work!

[@sollykhan2385]

Absolutely fantastic explanation of the CAN system, accurate and very concise,THANK YOU for the time and trouble to produce the great content and for sharing knowledge, it is well appreciated, please post more,and please share a 'Can' of soft drink as a goodwill gesture 🥤🙂👍

[@hoctrimededebutry8655]

Hello (Ola !!) from France !! Thanks a lot for these videos about "How it works 😀Muchas gracias

[@ChrisWilliams-pu8pj]

Great video! Good job of explaining CAN function which I had never heard. Thank you!

[@AbhishekKalyani]

Simple and effective explanation! Thanks!

[@martyb3783]

Very good explanation of CAN. Thanks for making this video.

[@Zombull73]

I...understood all this. Amazing! Good job!

[@TechnopolisDotTV]

Awesome! I've been waiting for a CAN bus video from you for so long. I had big issues with Arduino Uno and ESP32 CAN communication when using IC SN65HVD230. I will try TJA1050 💪 Thanks.

[@ikehsamuelifeanyi4925]

This video is great. You never disappoint in providing in depth explanation. By and large, I'm still far away from using this communication protocol because of it complexity.

[@johncloar1692]

Thanks a really neat project. I have a better understanding of CANBUS Thanks for the video.

[@bd1982]

thanks for sharing, with so much depth and clarity!

[@nikhilgautam1007]

you are really doing fantastic job.your all videos were really helpfull to me thankyou so much your effort.🙌🙌🙌❤

[@jclm8049]

Bonjour à tous !!!! Vraiment au top !!!! Hello everyone !!!! Really on top !!!!

[@andreiasimas2984]

Achei muito didático o vídeo. As palavras recortadas ajudaram muito.

[@alexnewton3376]

6 months ago, during my masters studies, I had a little knowledge of CANBUS. Now this video has cleared all my doubts. Perfect animations and great explanations.

[@ELECTRONOOBS]

Thank you!

[@dinismaia]

Fantastic explanation. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 😃👏👏👏

[@electronic7979]

It's a nice video with useful information. Thank you

[@ninadtaralekar]

Great explanation of the concepts with briefing pointers and making it more simple 👍👍

[@prathameshmore4739]

Very smooth to understand. KUDOS!!

[@lancelotsinkuu4347]

Best video ever, you're a life saver

[@aco7992]

Excellent clear explanations thanks for the video!

[@DANEMSPRINGER]

Awesome video man! I'd love to see this expanded to showing different inputs such as potentiometers, sensors, triggers etc. And possibly display the data to Torque Pro (Android CAN BUS Reader Apk.).

[@viktoreidrien7110]

excelent video man, superb !! thanks for the knowledge.

[@Aragorn450]

That was a good explanation of CANBUS! I knew that the ESP32 had pins for CAN but had never looked into how to actually use it, so that was helpful too. One thing to also include about CAN is it's best to use a twisted pair wire for the hi and lo pins. For a short test like you were doing, no need, but for using in an actual vehicle, it's needed so that any interference is equally experienced by both wires and it reduces the electromagnetic radiation from the wires as well.

[@suhaskasute9353]

pure knowledge and informative video

[@ami6packs]

Awesome video. Looking for more advanced projects based on can bus.

[@araz1977]

Great video, thank you for making this...

[@ginamar6218]

One thing not mentioned in this video is CAN bus termination. Where both ends of the bus has 120 ohm termination resistor. Creating a 60 ohm resistance on the bus. Also in a can network each module on the bus has an in and an out so it goes through that module to another. And if you lose a module on the middle of the bus you may lose all modules or just the ones on the other side of the missing module.

[@ragohy]

.... It does NOT go through the module!!! By any means!!! BS🧐. If a module is missing, the can bus still works!!!

[@ginamar6218]

@ragohy it depends on the network. And in automotive it 100 percent has in and out through the module. If a module is disconnected you 100 percent lose the ability to talk to modules beyond them.

[@ragohy]

@@ginamar6218... since there is no car "module" discussed in the video, instead a can bus transceiver and a controller and a mcu, which forms a "node" : can bus will work, if a node leaving the bus (as long as there are two working nodes left!! He showed the principals and not how some manufacturer might build it: i. e. two wires in and two wires out. OK??

[@kashif8704]

That's not true, if you lose one module the other will work properly without any problems. It's a must have safety feature. You are saying that if one temperature sensor is faulty in a car or some other node then airbags will not open because our can bus is down now.

[@noahw4623]

​@@ginamar6218 That would depend on the bus structure, but it seems highly unlikely IMO as ISO26262 has redundancy requirements that would make it absurd to have that as a failure mode

[@lebasson]

Fantastich how you break down the communication protocol this way, I finally feel I understand it at a "material" level. Would love a followup video demonstrating how to interface an arduino/esp32 with CAN bus module with an actual car. Like, say, controlling the windows?

[@ecurepair]

Easily explained. Thanks.

[@leehewitt9559]

Great description. 👌👌👌

[@telsonlancycrasta]

Thanks for making video on this topic ❤

[@Yulian.Mladenov]

very good explanation for beginners!

[@matinobrajkovic4876]

Nice video but I must add that at 3:18 message ID is not based on the address of the node/device, they do not have address, but rather on the priority of the message itself. The message with lower ID will be sent sooner on the CAN bus in process called arbitration. The message as you mentioned is received by all node but more nodes can respond to the message. Also messages sent by one node should have unique IDs otherwise Bus Errors could occure

[@kylejewiss659]

And this is another reason it is used in the automobile industry, more important systems like air bags, sensors etc will have priority over other things like seat warmers.

[@conorstewart2214]

It was a big point he missed. Multiple devices can read the same message and process it. A device can have a list of messages it is listening for.

[@diegocassinera]

Good video. One note do, there is no reverse computation of crc. Rather the receiver revives the packet with data and crc. The receiver computes the crc on the received data, and then compare the value it generated to the value received. If they do not match, the data is not trusted.

[@shivasingh7879]

such a good explanation

[@sachinchoudhary0487]

Excellent video👍👍 keep going

[@SunnieSnell]

Lovely rabbit hole to go down, ta.

[@mrwayne8018]

This is what I’m getting to unlock some features on my car 😀

[@marktompkins3180]

Excellent instruction!!! *****

[@padmanabhanrajesh2366]

Really good explanation bro

[@tyrelllaszlo6024]

Great video! Did you connect the the grounds of the esp and arduino ?

[@moulayediag3873]

Very great work

[@nathanielmelchor6177]

Such a fantastic video @Electronoobs. I'm just wondering about GND connection between Arduino and ESP32, I didn't see it in you diagram. Best!!

[@Jose-tw9bl]

Great topic! I would love to see how to use libraries on the msp430

[@luisjosesalazarserrano264]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing. Can you explain what is the physical limitation in distance between transmitter and receiver? What is the maximum data rate? Why is the shape of the signals on the oscilloscope not square?

[@wtfucrazy]

Great video!

[@supremeleader5516]

amazing video

[@regueraguiessabbar2103]

thank you man

[@ElabIndustrial]

Thank you sir

[@ceciliochavezaquino5051]

Fantastic!!!

[@user-wl9bw9rk4k]

Great video, really well explained and detailed. Can you please make a video or explain how CANopen is different? Since they share the same physical layers, can you read CANopen the same way?

[@h240481]

Fantastic 🎉🎉🎉

[@ranganatennakoon]

great explain !

[@iuhere]

what are your plans or what way would you use a can bus reader to accomplish what tasks/goals? please share some insight on what you would do with can bus access to devices available near you. that will be veyr interesting to hear what you oculd do with it.

[@jordannzokou1750]

Thank you for this video it is amazing !!! Can you make and other video to talk about Modbus communication? It will be very nice…

[@gregorydriscoll8806]

Thank you bro

[@PsychoPod]

Great video, really enjoyed it. Could you do a similar one with Modbus?

[@sudheerkumar5966]

Very good sir

[@MyPurushu]

Thank you

[@Poult100]

Thank you! Now I know.

[@omarmejri8360]

think you it's a good lesson

[@x_ma_ryu_x]

instantly subscribed

[@PhG1961]

Awesome video! What about a video on ModBus and Arduino/RPi?

[@tvamos73]

Hi, can i say, the phisical layer of CAN bus is usually but not obviously RS485 half duplex serial but it could be optical or over ethernet (like ethercat)?

[@bennguyen1313]

I bought a similar Microchip controller, the MCP2518FD, but can't seem to figure out how to filter out messages! For example, how do you tell out to ignore all but the messages coming from extended id 0x200?

[@aRs_06]

Super

[@SHULIN-rf6tr]

i subscribe! thank you contribute~

[@Abc-sl1nf]

Thanks

[@marktompkins3180]

Five star video!!!

[@himanshispeedometerwork8185]

SUPER

[@pashko90]

I wish to see more practical implementation, let's say listening and emulating a CAN module, such as ECU and play with a data frames to see how changing parameters can change things on a cluster for example

[@affieuk]

This would be amazing, I find most videos are very academic.

[@philljustphill1656]

Can I splice a twisted pair in the can bus wires from one module so it can send the signal directly to another module? bypassing a gayeway module...

[@bobmantheawesome]

CAN is also used on spacecraft as well as automobiles

[@shoumikahmed6373]

Hello,Thanks for these informative videos.I have learned a lot from them. I have been eagerly waiting for the Lithium battery charger discharger project. Any update about that?

[@ELECTRONOOBS]

Thanks! Not yet!

[@mallikarjunse]

Finally! 🎉

[@dennisfahey2379]

Excellent tutorial. I have to wonder if anyone has "sniffed" the CANBUS on various car models and built a database of the devices, commands and response codes. It always annoys me that for each car manufacturer you need their ODBII/CANBUS reader. The retail universal ones are just insanely expensive for what they are. I recall decades ago someone did this for IR remotes and made a fantastic Universal Remote Control (with macros) that was not available retail.

[@revealingfacts4all]

There is an open source project aimed at reverse engineering these databases. I'm in automotive professionally and everything is going CAN-FD with encrypted buses now. This video is about legacy CAN 2.0B. In legacy CAN you can still have encrypted buses however due to the low data rate it's generally not done except for certain CAN frames like unlocking to tune an engine.

[@dennisfahey2379]

Thank you for the comment. I have to wonder how strong the encryption is since it has to be low cost. For example when WIFI came out it had no encryption (dumb really). Then they added WEP. That was cracked in a couple weeks. Then they added WPA2 etc. Its the nature of CANBUS to be very cheap in production so I am betting the encrypted standard is hacked in no time. Especially since the commands cannot change without a full software rewrite!

[@revealingfacts4all]

@@dennisfahey2379 well WiFi encryption is at the transport layer. CAN 2.0 has no encryption at transport and is all done at the application layer so the encryption can be as strong as you like really. But many CAN 2.0 devices are designed around lower end processors that usually don't have the processing capabilities to run a full cipher suite so they often just don't. With CAN-FD's higher data rates, things are changing. CAN and CAN-FD have something called ISO-TP which, fundamentally, is just a protocol on top of CAN frames and still pushes the encryption logic up into the application layer. ISO-TP is where things are interesting. You can think of the russian doll analogy or html inside a tcp payload. Like these examples, ISO-TP is just multiple CAN frames that are reassembled to make a complete & larger message. ISO-TP doesn't change the max payload size (8 bytes with CAN 2.0) but allows multiple frames of 8 bytes to be assembled as a complete message so the encryption overhead starts to make sense. It's hard to justify on a CAN bus the overhead associated with encryption for just 8 bytes and so other lesser encryption or security protocols are used which would require a dedicated video/blog post on...

[@DANEMSPRINGER]

Torque Pro with BLUETOOTH OBDII

[@SusanAmberBruce]

Are you going to do a video about the UNO R4, I hope you do.

[@peterf983]

Nice! Connect to CAN in your car and show us what we can do about this...

[@leybraith3561]

Thanks for the good basic/essential info. If anyone wants more detail regarding termination, priority etc I found an excellent 'Hardwire Electronics' KZbin video titled "CAN Bus: A Beginners Guide Part 1" I was really amazed how clever CAN bus is.

[@qzorn4440]

CAN 🤩 you provide a working example using the newer Orange Pi5 GPIO? The OPi5 does not have a step-by-step CAN example. 😎 Thank you.

[@tomtac820]

Can you make a video on how to read a embedded c code with multiple registers, bits and .h .c files and understand code written by someone else

[@FranciscoJavierGracia]

I'm measuring with the oscilloscope the signal, and it's not the same you're getting. Both of the lines are lowering their voltages.

[@thexht7927]

I think 1 thing to clarify is that you don’t calculate the original data from CRC bit, but you use the received data to calculate the expected CRC then compared with the received CRC. If data is > 4bytes long then reversible calculation from CRC is impossible

[@dsbohra]

Can you put the link for the complete tutorial please, thanks.

[@hocvan9802]

I have a robot vacuum cleaner. And I am wondering why it can go home to charge the battery when hungry. I have noticed that the inside of the robot and charger has infrared transceiver eyes but I don't understand how it works yet. How can you explain it to me?

[@inventorkr1]

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[@georgezanfir]

Hey, great video, but I do have a queston regarding CAN... What is the difference between CAN comm and Rs484? (both use basically the same 2 twisted wire and differential single) but, my main curiosity, is what happen if 2 or more modules, will try to send data in the same time? how is this avoided? Thank you

[@revealingfacts4all]

CAN has a defined packet format whereas 422/485 does not beyond a start/stop but. There is no CRC, for example, in 422/485 unless the application adds it to its data, CAN it must be there. Another difference is CAN devices arbitrate for the bus (he doesn't cover it in this video) where as 422/485, there is no bus arbitration. This allows CAN endpoints to start communicating whenever they have data to send; first arbitration and getting on the bus where in 422/485, a device must generally wait and respond to a master's request.

[@putraadriansyah8082]

Can you make a video about J1850 VPW communication?

[@turkialshehri9762]

My brother , I need your help. I am currently working on a graduate project to operate a water pump through direct solar panels, and you know that the voltage will change a lot. My design is to build a DC to DC converter. The voltage range between 100 volts in the morning and evening to 350 volts at noon. can it works in this large range of wide range of voltage without getting core saturated or losing his job ,Do u think by changing switching freq and duty cycle can it work fine?.Arduino nano as switching frequency will be

[@eemtech1606]

CAN protocol has similarity with MODBUS protocol. Maybe you can make the comparison between the two.

[@Axeltreman]

What elsw would you need to extract sensor information from a car?

[@n.thenushan120]

Can you build computer vision based robotic arm object picking i searched in internet I can’t find any where on internet

[@Asdayasman]

How does it deal with contention?

[@GoDangDoiWorksTeam]

can you explain about K-LINE because it using on automotive.

[@udy2530]

Hi there, correct me if I am wrong but when he explained on the CAN data message with the ID, I understood it as each device has unique ID, and only the device with the given/matching ID will act on that data message. Meaning that the ID refers to the address of the device(the animation show it like that). However, when I did some research the ID actually represents the type of data message for prioritization purpose and not the device address. It is to make sure only one message is sent every time CAN bus is not idle. Again correct me if I am wrong tho. Its a good video tho, thanks.

[@udy2530]

Ouh nevermind... I just found a comment with similar opinion with mine. Took me multiple website and videos to confirm this. Thanks tho!