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john30 / ebusd

daemon for communication with eBUS heating systems
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add "listen unknown" command #80

Closed john30 closed 4 years ago

brucemiranda commented 7 years ago

Also maybe adding a TimeStamp will be especially helpful with the "listen unknown" command.

john30 commented 7 years ago

what would be the use case for having a timestamp there? When interpreting the output line programmatically, the time of reception is exactly the timestamp, so I don't see any benefit here.

brucemiranda commented 7 years ago

This would be useful if we kept listen running for a long time, say overnight. You can then see what time a particular message was seen on the bus. Ofcourse, one could always direct the telnet output to a file and use a program that adds timestamp to every output line. (e.g. RealTerm)

john30 commented 7 years ago

all this information is available in ebusd log, so I don't see the benefit

brucemiranda commented 6 years ago

Another use case for a listen unknown is that listen will only list out known and configured messages. Listen is often used to look at the messages in real time and you would want to know if any un-configured messages were seen on the bus.