I wrote another little script which can help identify what changes in the EC over time - simply run the script and it monitors changes displaying them in red (hope this helps)

!/usr/bin/python/env python

sudo pip install pysensors

import os,time,subprocess,binascii

def getbgColorExact(r,g,b): return '\033[{};2;{};{};{}m'.format(48, r, g, b) def getfgColorExact(r,g,b): return '\033[{};2;{};{};{}m'.format(38, r, g, b) RESET = '\033[0m'

EC_IO_FILE="/sys/kernel/debug/ec/ec0/io" if not os.path.exists(EC_IO_FILE): subprocess.call(['modprobe','ec_sys','write_support=1'],stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)

os.system('clear')

curvals = [None] 256 curchanged = [0] 256 curchanged2 = [1] *256

while True:

with open(EC_IO_FILE,"rb") as f:
    hexdata = binascii.hexlify(f.read()).decode('ascii')

for i in range(0,256,1):
    if curvals[i] == None:
        curvals[i]=hexdata[(i*2):(i*2)+2]
    elif curvals[i] != hexdata[(i*2):(i*2)+2] and curchanged[i]==0:
        curchanged[i]=1     
    elif curchanged[i]==1:
        if curvals[i] != hexdata[(i*2):(i*2)+2]:
            curchanged2[i]=1
        else:
            curchanged2[i]=0
    curvals[i]=hexdata[(i*2):(i*2)+2]

os.system('clear')
print('   00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F')
for i in range(0,251,16):
    asciidata= ''
    linedata = '{:02x} '.format(i)
    for j in range(0,16,1):
        if int(curvals[i+j],16)>31 and int(curvals[i+j],16)<127:
            asciidata+= chr(int(curvals[i+j],16))
        else:
            asciidata+='.'
        if curchanged[i+j]==0:
            linedata+= curvals[i+j]
        else:
            if curchanged2[i+j]==0:
                linedata+= '%s%s%s' % (getfgColorExact(255,0,0),curvals[i+j],RESET)
            else:
                linedata+= '%s%s%s' % (getbgColorExact(255,0,0),curvals[i+j],RESET)

        linedata+= ' '      
    linedata += '>'
    linedata += asciidata
    linedata += '<'
    print(linedata)

time.sleep(1)

YoyPa / isw

EC watcher #247

!/usr/bin/python/env python

sudo pip install pysensors