I am not sure I even understand what is going on here with this data, but I am trying to replicate functionality like here, here or here to decode the data I am receiving over UART from my Plantower PMS5003 sensor (see datasheet) sensor in Elixir.
It's delimited by 0x42
and 0x4d
and starts like this:
iex([email protected])4> {:ok, data} = Circuits.UART.read(pid, 60000)
{:ok,
<<66, 77, 0, 28, 0, 23, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 22, 0, 31, 0, 32, 17, 124, 4, 211, 0,
171, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 151, 0, 4, 5, 66, 77, 0, 28, 0, 23, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0,
22, 0, 31, 0, 32, ...>>}
I then base16 encode it:
iex([email protected])5> Base.encode16(data)
"424D001C0017002000200016001F0020117C04D300AB00080000000097000405424D001C0017002000200016001F0020117C04D300AB00080000000097000405424D001C0017001F001F0016001E001F115804BE0098000800
000000970003B5424D001C0018002000200016001F002011BB04D8009F0008000000009700043E424D001C0016001F001F0015001E001F11DC04C3009300080000000097000437424D001C0017001E001E0015001D001E11E20
4C300850008000000009700042C424D001C0016001E001E0015001D001E117304B70087000600000000970003B0424D001C0016001D001D0015001D001D111F049B007B00060000000097000331424D001C0017001E001E0016
001E001E10F5048D007D00060000000097000400424D001C0017001E001E0016001E001E10FB0496008B0004000000009700041B424D001C0016001E001E0015001E001E10B304810089000400000000970003BA424D001C001
5001C001C0014001C001C104A045E008000020000000097000319424D001C0016001C001
And split by 424D
decoded |> String.split("424D")
["", "001C0017002000200016001F0020117C04D300AB00080000000097000405",
"001C0017002000200016001F0020117C04D300AB00080000000097000405",
"001C0017001F001F0016001E001F115804BE0098000800000000970003B5",
"001C0018002000200016001F002011BB04D8009F0008000000009700043E",
Then break it into chunks of 2
iex([email protected])10> "001C0017002000200016001F0020117C04D300AB00080000000097000405" |> String.codepoints |> Enum.chunk(2) |> Enum.map(&Enum.join/1)
["00", "1C", "00", "17", "00", "20", "00", "20", "00", "16", "00", "1F", "00",
"20", "11", "7C", "04", "D3", "00", "AB", "00", "08", "00", "00", "00", "00",
"97", "00", "04", "05"]
I am fairly at a loss as to where to go from here. I found this discussion about how to do it in Java but I don't really understand what is going on there with the framebuffers.
Any insight appreciated
EDIT: tags
So, erlang/elixir are great languages for deconstructing raw packets in binary format--which is what Circuits.UART.read()
returns. You deconstruct a binary, <<...>>
, with binary pattern matching, and your datasheet contains the spec for the pattern you will use. There's no need for base16 encoding, splitting at 424D
, nor breaking into chunks of 2:
defmodule My do
def match(<<
66, 77,
_fr_len::big-integer-size(16),
data1::big-integer-size(16),
data2::big-integer-size(16),
data3::big-integer-size(16),
data4::big-integer-size(16),
data5::big-integer-size(16),
data6::big-integer-size(16),
data7::big-integer-size(16),
data8::big-integer-size(16),
data9::big-integer-size(16),
data10::big-integer-size(16),
data11::big-integer-size(16),
data12::big-integer-size(16),
_reserved::big-integer-size(16),
_check_code::big-integer-size(16),
rest::binary
>>) do
IO.puts "pm 1.0 cf: #{data1} ug/m^3"
IO.puts "pm 2.5 atmospheric: #{data5} ug/m^3"
match(rest)
end
def match(partial_frame) do
IO.puts "partial_frame:"
IO.inspect partial_frame
end
def go() do
match(<<66, 77, 0, 28, 0, 23, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 22, 0, 31, 0, 32,
17, 124, 4, 211, 0, 171, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 151, 0, 4, 5,
66, 77, 0, 28, 0, 23, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 22, 0, 31, 0, 32>>)
:ok
end
end
In iex:
iex(1)> My.go
pm 1.0 cf: 23 ug/m^3
pm 2.5 atmospheric: 31 ug/m^3
partial_frame:
<<66, 77, 0, 28, 0, 23, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 22, 0, 31, 0, 32>>
:ok
You could write 0x42, 0x4D
inside the pattern to exactly match the datasheet spec, however I think it's clearer to use the decimal equivalents, 66, 77
, because elixir doesn't output hex codes when outputting a binary, rather elixir outputs decimals--as can be seen in your data
(Or, sometimes elixir outputs a double quoted string for a binary, which is really confusing and stupid.) With 66, 77
in the pattern, you can easily look at the data and see where it matches.
Note that the last segment rest::binary
is like writing .*
in a regex.
Before trusting any of the data assigned to the variables, you should probably check that the frame length is 28 and verify the check code. Unfortunately, I can't figure out what the check code represents. I get 1029
for the check code.
==========
Can you post an example of what you expect the data to look like?
A hex string like "1C"
is equivalent to decimal 28
. You can get all the decimal equivalents like this:
data = [ "00", "1C", "00", "17", "00", "20", "00", "20", "00", "16", "00",
"1F", "00", "20", "11", "7C", "04", "D3", "00", "AB", "00", "08",
"00", "00", "00", "00", "97", "00", "04", "05"]
for str <- data do
Integer.parse(str, 16)
end
|> IO.inspect
|> Enum.map(fn {a, _} -> a end)
Integer.parse() returns a tuple, where the first element is an integer and the second element is the "the remainder of the string", i.e. anything that couldn't be interpreted as an integer.
Output:
[
{0, ""},
{28, ""},
{0, ""},
{23, ""},
{0, ""},
{32, ""},
{0, ""},
{32, ""},
{0, ""},
{22, ""},
{0, ""},
{31, ""},
{0, ""},
{32, ""},
{17, ""},
{124, ""},
{4, ""},
{211, ""},
{0, ""},
{171, ""},
{0, ""},
{8, ""},
{0, ""},
{0, ""},
{0, ""},
{0, ""},
{151, ""},
{0, ""},
{4, ""},
{5, ""}
]
[0, 28, 0, 23, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 22, 0, 31, 0, 32, 17, 124,
4, 211, 0, 171, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 151, 0, 4, 5]
Is that what your data is supposed to look like?
It looks to me like the java code:
...forEach[b | bts.append(Integer.toHexString(b)]
does some bit twiddling with the java's bitwise OR operator: |
, which makes no sense to me in that code snippet. But, in elixir you would do that with Bitwise.bor(a, b). I really think that java code should look like this:
...forEach(b -> bts.append(Integer.toHexString(b))
In other words, forEach() takes a lambda as an argument. Heck, that has me so curious, I'm going to ask the guy what that means.
Edit:
Alright, the guy responded to me, and that isn't Java--it is the syntax for a lambda though--in some DSL language.