Verbose output for TCP listen mode

[msteiger]

I appreciate the work you put into this thing. It really helps me a lot.

So, I'm writing a client similar to john30/vwmon. It listens on raw TCP:8888 for events and writes broadcast data to a DB.

A critical point here is bringing field names and values together and I think that this could be improved. Afaics, I have to do the following today:

• Call find -v and remove the values to get the field names
• Call listen, parse the list of values and map them, based on their index, to the field names from above

It would be convenient, if ..

• there was an option for find that just gives the field names.
• even better: a verbose version of listen that does what read -v does and map field names to values

Thanks

[john30]

I'm not sure I fully understand. Have a look at the documentation of e.g. the find and the read commands here: https://github.com/john30/ebusd/wiki/3.1.-TCP-client-commands#read https://github.com/john30/ebusd/wiki/3.1.-TCP-client-commands#find especially the find command reveals a lot of the fields a message is composed of and you can use "-F" to limit to certain parts of the definition

[msteiger]

I was hoping that I just missed the right combination of parameters. Here's what I get:

find -v betrd       -->       broadcast betrd = status=7;zustand=79;stellgrad=25...
listen              -->       broadcast betrd = 10;41;0;49.0;128;49;2

This is what I hope for (at least one of them):

find --no-values(?) betrd     --> broadcast betrd = status;zustand;stellgrad
listen --verbose(?)           --> broadcast betrd = status=7;zustand=79;stellgrad=25...

I'm using listen instead of read so I get notified immediately when the broadcast comes in. Does that make sense?

[john30]

for find you can use the "-f" option that yields in the csv format for the listen command extension, i'll put it on my todo list