# collin80/SavvyCAN

QT based cross platform canbus tool

Repository: https://github.com/collin80/SavvyCAN
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/savvycan
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-05-15T01:09:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4146, "days_push": 111, "days_rel": 482, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1782, forks 460 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:35.686659+00:00)

## What it is
SavvyCAN is a Qt-based cross-platform CAN bus analysis tool for capturing, visualizing, saving, and loading CAN frames. It supports many log file formats and multiple capture devices including SocketCAN, Vector, PeakCAN, and the GVRET firmware.

## Use cases
- reverse engineer can bus traffic from a vehicle
- capture and visualize canbus frames
- load and convert can log files from different tools
- debug can bus communication with socketcan
- analyze can frames from a candump or pcap file

## When to avoid
- you need a headless or scriptable CAN analysis tool
- you require a lightweight CLI-only sniffer

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, reverse-engineering, developer-tools, data-visualization
- domain: embedded-systems, reverse-engineering, hardware, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: canbus, qt5, socketcan, gvret, obd, vehicle-debugging, frame-capture, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- collin80/SavvyCAN (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:35.686659+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:24:21.196082+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/collin80/SavvyCAN (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:35.686659+00:00, sha e7321fb55c99)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.