VAN bus monitoring

Projects Networking, Protocols, and Devices
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Hello!

I've just registered, and trying to gather as much information as possible before jumping into my next big project. What I would like to accomplish is to monitor the bus of my car, and maybe build a multi-function display for it. It is a Peugeot 307 from 2002. Back then PSA used VAN bus on their vehicles for communication. Unfortunately there are very limited information on the web regarding to this bus, mostly fragments. The most complete information I managed to find is here: http://graham.auld.me.uk/projects/vanbus/van-pc.html

What I hope is that someone had already tinkered with the VAN bus using Arduino and can shed some lights on what version of Arduino should I choose for this kind of project. My other questions: is there any VAN bus shield, or is there any CAN bus shield which can be used to connect to the VAN bus? My last resort is to use the monitor which can be found on the above link, and somehow hook it up to an arduino. Is that possible?

Thank you for your help.

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On the linked schematics it looks like the VAN bus is physically a CAN bus so you can use any of the available CAN shields (p.e. the one from Sparkfun). On the software layer you probably can use the lower level MCP2551 library and implement the VAN protocol on top of it.