Published 2017-12-25

CAN bus on Raspberry Pi with Stretch

I needed to install my CAN Board on my Raspberry after some time not using it. Because most of the copy/paste stuff is for the older distribution(s), here how to install with Stretch (in my case 2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch.img).

1. Add to /boot/config.txt

dtparam=spi=on
dtoverlay=mcp2515-can0,oscillator=16000000,interrupt=25

2. Add file /etc/network/interfaces.d/can0

auto can0
iface can0 inet manual
    pre-up /sbin/ip link set $IFACE type can bitrate 1000000 triple-sampling on
    up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE up
    down /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE down

Reboot and you should see the can interface with ifconfig. Even faster you could use my rpi-can role for Ansible.