bggardner
commented
2 years ago Kudos for getting as far as you have. My guess is that these new message types may be new "Status Update" messages, but because their field values are so different between messages that may not be the case. You may need to post a timestamped dump/log of a message stream to make more sense of these. It would be even better if the log was notated to say when "obvious" telemetry like temperatures change on the display/control panel.
FYI, you may want to switch to a RS-485 to USB adapter, as any IP-based system may introduce delays and/or drop packets. The Ethernet converter is probably fine, but switching to a lower-level serial device may help with troubleshooting.
I think investigating the issue about not being able to detect control panel messages is critical. Does it use the same kind of connector? Are the control panel connector signal "bussed" with the RS-485<>Ethernet connector signals (does pin 1 connect to pin 1, etc.)? Maybe post some pictures. What kind of traffic is there if the control panel is unplugged? Also try logging the bus during power-on, both the the control panel plugged in and disconnected.
HyperActiveJ
netmindz
Hello, I need some help decoding w messages from my 2021 Sundance 780 series spa. I recognize this is not a supported main board by the balboa worldwide app but I'm not sure where else to ask this.
I successfully connected a RS485<>Ethernet converter as described here: https://github.com/jshank/bwalink. I first attempted to use the this app as well as pybalboa unmodified with out success. I turned to manually adapting pybalboa to print raw data to try to identify the issue
I demonstrated I think I have my hardware working as expected by succeeding at implementing the channel assignment sequence:
With some confidence I then tired to send the following settings request messages (Type 0x22) after a CTS message in-place of a Nothing To Send message, with either codes 0, or 4 (Configuration, Information). However I observed no response to these messages. I also tried hard coding channel 0x0A (Wifi) without success.
Further, I am not receiving the known Status Update (0x13) message, nor was I able to capture the control panel sending any known message types by pressing controls. Instead I only receive a 3 different types of message at > 1hz rates.
Channel : Message Type: Number of Fields 0x10 : 0xCC : 2 0xFF : 0xCA : 29 0xFF : 0xC4 : 33
Example messages: Ch: 0x10 Type: 0xCC Len 7 - Data ['B1', '51'] Ch: 0xFF Type: 0xC4 Len 38 - Data ['35', '21', '31', '30', '3F', '3F', 'A6', 'C6', '3E', '3A', '5C', '3A', '07', '26', 'C5', '26', '47', '22', '20', '36', '2F', '2E', '01', '2C', 'B0', '2A', '29', '7C', '72', '16', '15', '14', '13'] Ch: 0x10 Type: 0xCC Len 7 - Data ['A4', '44'] Ch: 0xFF Type: 0xC4 Len 38 - Data ['C7', 'D3', 'C3', 'C2', 'CD', 'CD', '54', '34', 'CC', 'C8', 'AE', 'C8', 'F5', 'D4', '37', 'D4', 'B5', 'D0', 'D2', 'C4', 'DD', 'DC', 'F3', 'DE', '42', 'D8', 'DB', '8E', '80', 'E4', 'E7', 'E6', 'E1'] Ch: 0xFF Type: 0xCA Len 34 - Data ['C3', '7F', '83', '82', '8D', '8C', '8F', 'B2', '89', '88', '8B', '75', '95', '94', '97', '96', '91', '90', '93', '92', '9D', '9C', '9F', '9E', '99', '98', '9B', '9A', 'A5'] Ch: 0x10 Type: 0xCC Len 7 - Data ['B2', '52'] Ch: 0xFF Type: 0xC4 Len 38 - Data ['9F', '8B', '9B', '9A', '95', '95', '0C', '6C', '94', '90', 'F6', '90', 'AD', '8C', '6F', '8C', 'ED', '88', '8A', '9C', '85', '84', 'AB', '86', '1A', '80', '83', 'D6', 'D8', 'BC', 'BF', 'BE', 'B9'] Ch: 0xFF Type: 0xC4 Len 38 - Data ['39', '2D', '3D', '3C', '33', '33', 'AA', 'CA', '32', '36', '50', '36', '0B', '2A', 'C9', '2A', '4B', '2E', '2C', '3A', '23', '22', '0D', '20', 'BC', '26', '25', '70', '7E', '1A', '19', '18', '1F'] Ch: 0x10 Type: 0xCC Len 7 - Data ['1E', 'FE'] Ch: 0xFF Type: 0xC4 Len 38 - Data ['03', '17', '07', '06', '09', '09', '90', 'F0', '08', '0C', '6A', '0C', '31', '10', 'F3', '10', '71', '14', '16', '00', '19', '18', '37', '1A', '86', '1C', '1F', '4A', '44', '20', '23', '22', '25'] Ch: 0x10 Type: 0xCC Len 7 - Data ['DF', '3F']
My observations are:
So, I’m hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction to try to narrow in further. Any ideas?