A modular CAN and K-Line platform for OBD, simulation, diagnostics and tools — on the desktop, on a touch device, and in the wire.
CANsole brings bus monitoring, OBD/UDS/KWP diagnostics, ECU simulation, logging, replay, test patterns and remote control into a single system. Studio runs on the desktop, Touch works standalone at the bench or in the vehicle, and ECUconnect turns a small adapter into a headless diagnostic node. All three share one runtime.
Most automotive bus tooling falls into one of two camps: low-cost OBD dongles that barely scratch the surface, or six-figure restbus simulation rigs that nobody outside a Tier‑1 lab can afford. CANsole sits in between — serious enough for development and reverse engineering, accessible enough for a single bench.
Emulate ECUs and full restbuses, not only sniff the wire. Presets and bundles let you reproduce specific vehicle scenarios on demand.
Every CANsole node speaks remote control from day one. Drive a Touch unit from Studio, automate ECUconnect from CI, or scope out a bench from your laptop.
The same C++ core runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, ESP32 touch hardware, and ECUconnect adapters. UIs are control surfaces, not the runtime itself.
Preset-based scenarios, golden test sequences and replay turn ad-hoc bench work into something you can rerun next week and next year.
Touch boots into a known state and works without a host. Or join Wi-Fi/USB and become part of a larger setup. No lock-in either way.
Anything that can write to a real bus must be explicit, visible and loggable. No silent transmissions, no surprise frames.
Watch the bus, talk to ECUs, simulate a vehicle. Each pillar is independently useful — together they cover the full development loop from passive observation to active testing.
Look at the wire. Frame streams, decoded signals, error counters and timing — at the bench, in the vehicle, or remote.
Ask ECUs questions, read live data, walk diagnostic sessions and write changes — against a real bus or against the emulator.
Stand up a controllable virtual vehicle. Build presets from real captures, replay scenarios, and reproduce specific bus conditions on demand.
Studio, Touch and ECUconnect are not separate products that happen to share a logo. They are three control surfaces over the same diagnostic and simulation runtime. Pick the one that fits the workspace you are in.
The desktop workspace for presets, analysis, simulation, logging, replay and remote control of Touch and ECUconnect nodes.
A standalone diagnostic node with a 7″ touch display. Power it from OBD, pick a preset, monitor or simulate — no laptop required.
Firmware that turns an ECUconnect adapter into a remote-controlled diagnostic and simulation node — perfect for vehicles, rigs and CI.
What the platform speaks today, and where it is headed. Not every variant carries every capability — some are tied to specific hardware. Items shown dashed are planned.
CANsole is shaped by real automotive workflows — the kind that happen between a developer’s desk, a workshop bench, and the OBD port of an actual car.
Bring up new diagnostic flows against a controllable virtual ECU before risking a real harness. Iterate on UDS sessions, security access and routine control without pulling a vehicle into the lab.
Capture a real bus, replay it under controlled conditions, and bisect responses until the message catalog falls into place. CAN, K-Line, and the transport layers on top.
Drop a Touch unit on a bench, pick a preset, and have a working restbus under one minute. No host required, no boot dance, no “wait, which COM port”.
ECUconnect nodes carry stable identities and TCP/UDP services. Wire them into a pipeline and run the same diagnostic regression on every pull request.
Track down a flickering wakeup, a noisy ID or a cycle-time drift. Cockpit views surface error frames, REC/TEC drift and per-ID jitter without manual capture spelunking.
Walk a UDS session against every ECU on the bus. Read DTCs, dump DIDs, capture VIN and software versions — scriptable from Studio or an ECUconnect node.
CANsole is the convergence target. While the unified runtime is in active development, the live capabilities are already in production today as standalone desktop apps on vanille.de. They will fold into Studio over time.
Cross-platform CAN logger and analyzer. Live capture, ISO-TP reassembly, plus decoding for UDS, OBD-II, KWP2000, J1939, CCP and XCP. Frame sender, hex search and a JSON plugin system for vendor protocols included.
Visit CANcorder Emulate, todayDesktop ECU and restbus emulator. Multi-ECU specs in JSON, six service adapters — CAN, ECUconnect TCP, HSFZ, DoIP, ELM327/STN and ENET Service Broker — and spec import from real captures.
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