In order to compensate potential overhead of transfer encoding, the transfer speed is set to 115200 Baud (or 9600 Baud) with 8 bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit.
Data bytes with a value below 0x80 can be transferred as is.
Data bytes with value above or equal to 0x80 are split up into two bytes, each one with the highest bit set to 1. The second bit indicates whether it is the first or second byte of a split transfer. This way protocol errors can easily be detected. The bits in the two bytes look like this:
first second
76543210 76543210
11ccccdd 10dddddd
4 bits in c
are used for indicating a special purpose and is set to one of the command request/response symbols as stated below.
8 bits in d
are the data byte to be transferred (might also be unused).
- initialization request
<INIT> <features>
Requests an initialization of the interface and optionally requests special features.
The data byted
indicates interest in certain features (like full message sending instead of arbitration only). The feature bits are defined below in the symbols section. - send data request
<SEND> <data>
Requests the specified data byte ind
to be sent to the eBUS.
For data byte values <0x80, the short form without the<SEND>
prefix is allowed as well. - arbitration start request
<START> <master>
Requests the start of the arbitration process after the next received<SYN>
symbol with the specified master address ind
. If the master address is<SYN>
, the current arbitration is supposed to be cancelled. - information request
<INFO> <info_id>
Requests the transfer of additional info identified byinfo_id
. The possibleinfo_id
values are defined below in the symbols section. Sending a new info request while the response for the previous one is still in progress immediately terminates the transfer of the previous response.
- initialization response
<RESETTED> <features>
Indicates a reboot or an initial ebusd connection on the interface and is expected to be returned after an<INIT
> request.
The data byted
indicates availability of certain features (like full message sending instead of arbitration only). The feature bits are defined below in the symbols section. - receive data notification
<RECEIVED> <data>
Indicates that the specified data byte ind
was received from the eBUS.
For data byte values <0x80, the short form without the<RECEIVED>
prefix is allowed as well. Note that this message shall not be sent when the byte received was part of an arbitration request initiated by ebusd. - arbitration start succeeded
<STARTED> <master>
Indicates the the last arbitration request succeeded (arbitration was won).
The data byte ind
contains the master address that was sent to eBUS during arbitration. - arbitration start failed
<FAILED> <master>
Indicates that the last arbitration request failed (arbitration was lost or sending failed).
The data byte ind
contains the master address that has won the arbitration. - information response
<INFO> <data>
Transfers one data byte in response to the INFO request. The first byte transferred in response is the number of data bytes to be transferred (excluding the length itself). The format of the data sequence depends on theinfo_id
value from the request. The possibleinfo_id
values are defined below in the symbols section. - eBUS communication error
<ERROR_EBUS> <error>
Indicates an error in the eBUS UART.
The data byte ind
contains the error message. - host communication error
<ERROR_HOST> <error>
Indicates an error in the host receiver/transmitter.
The data byte ind
contains the error message.
These are the predefined symbols as used above.
- SYN 0xAA
- INIT 0x0
- SEND 0x1
- START 0x2
- INFO 0x3
- RESETTED 0x0
- RECEIVED 0x1
- STARTED 0x2
- INFO 0x3
- FAILED 0xa
- ERROR_EBUS 0xb
- ERROR_HOST 0xc
- ERR_FRAMING 0x00: framing error
- ERR_OVERRUN 0x01: buffer overrun error
- bit 7-2: tbd
- // planned: bit 1: full message sending (complete sequence instead of single bytes)
- bit 0: additional infos (version, HW ID, etc.)
The first level below is the info_id
value and the second level describes the response data byte sequence.
The first byte transferred in response is always the number of data bytes to be transferred (excluding the length itself).
- 0x00: version
length
: =8 (2 before 20220220, 5 before 20220831)version
: version numberfeatures
: feature bits (see above)checksum_H
checksum_L
: checksum (since 20220220)jumpers
: jumper settings (0x01=enhanced, 0x02=high speed, 0x04=Ethernet, 0x08=WIFI, 0x10=v3.1, 0x20=ignore hard jumpers)bootloader_version
: bootloader version (since 20220831)bootloader_checksum_H
bootloader_checksum_L
: bootloader checksum
- 0x01: HW ID
length
: =9- 9*
hwid
: hardware identifier
- 0x02: HW config
length
: =8config_H
config_L
: hardware config (chip specific)
- 0x03: HW temperature
length
: =2temp_H
temp_L
: hardware temperature in degrees Celsius
- 0x04: HW supply voltage
length
: =2millivolt_H
millivolt_L
: supply voltage in mV, or 0 if unknown
- 0x05: bus voltage
length
: =2voltage_max
: maximum eBUS voltage in 10th volts, or 0 if unknownvoltage_min
: minimum eBUS voltage in 10th volts, or 0 if unknown
- 0x06: reset info (since 20220831)
length
: =2reset_cause
: reset cause (1=power-on, 2=brown-out, 3=watchdog, 4=clear, 5=reset, 6=stack, 7=memory)restart_count
: restart count (within same power cycle)
- 0x07: WIFI status (since 20231226)
length
: =2rssi
: signal strength in dBm (rssi, usually negative), 0 if unknown