usb-can

This is an open source C++ library for use with the USB-CAN converter developed by Rafael Silva and João Silva

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• You will need root access to a Linux machine.

• You will need to install development packages for libudev and libusb

• You will need the hidapi library installed

• You will need to install libusb

sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development environment running

• Clone this repository to your working directory

sudo git clone https://github.com/Crying-Face-Emoji/MCP2210-CAN-sdk

• Go to the source directory

cd MCP2210-CAN-sdk/

• Run make

sudo make

Running

• You may need to add the provided udev rules to the /etc/udev/rules.d directory.

sudo cp mcp2210-hid.rules /etc/udev/rules.d

• Depending on your user permissions, you might need to run the compilled binary with root access (sudo)

TODO: Explain how to run the automated tests for this system

Authors

• Rafael Silva - Initial work - crying-face-emoji
• João Silva - Initial work - vankxr

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• kerrydwong - mcp2210 library used as base
• signal11 - original HID API