VW Can Bus Hacking With SavvyCan & Cantact - Voltlog

High quality PCB Services https://pcbway.com In this video I’m gonna walk you through the process that I use for hacking a VW cluster CAN bus(PQ35 platform, MFA cluster). The tools that I’m going to be using today are very accessible price wise and open source on top of that. As hardware I’m going to be using the Cantact usb to can bus adapter, this is going to allow a computer and operating system to access and communicate on the CAN BUS. As software I’m going to be using Savvycan which is once again an open source GUI tool for hacking and reverse engineering CAN BUS data. Links for places where you can order the Cantact hardware and download Savvycan will be placed in the description below.

→Cantact USB-CAN Adapter
CANdo clone https://voltlog.com/y/bwh3u
CANable clone https://voltlog.com/y/ojgqk
→VW PQ35 harness with gateway https://voltlog.com/y/8g5sa
→Cantact wiki https://voltlog.com/y/raos7
→Candlelight firmware wiki https://voltlog.com/y/j82ze
→Candlelight firmware binary (8b2b2b4.bin) https://voltlog.com/y/iq29k
→SavvyCan github https://voltlog.com/y/dols2
→SavvyCan release binary https://voltlog.com/y/jki3g
→VirtualBox https://voltlog.com/y/mdle0

→Commands used in the video
#install dfu-util using this command
sudo apt install dfu-util
#flash new firmware using this command
sudo dfu-util --dfuse-address -d 0483:df11 -c 1 -i 0 -a 0 -s 0x08000000 -D gsusb_cantact_8b2b2b4.bin
#check gs_usb kernel module is enabled
sudo modprobe gs_usb
#check available can interfaces
sudo ip link show
#configure can0 for desired speed
sudo ip link set can0 type can bitrate 500000
#bring up can0
sudo ip link set up can0
#check can0
sudo ip -det link show can0

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