Checksum Assistance
jabramson
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I'm trying to calculate a checksum, but I cannot figure out how to do it for this device. I've tried all the sample code I can find here on the forums, but none have worked for me.
The device is a Grid Connect BF-2300
Here are some working examples, I just don't know how to add everything together to get that checksum.
Thanks
The device is a Grid Connect BF-2300
In this appendix the DIO command protocol is described here to let customer’s remote management software to access Digital I/O state through Ethernet network by a specific TCP/UDP port(default is 50000) ,RS232 and RS485. Command Packet Format： Length(Bytes): Start Flag - 2, Command - 2, Data 1 - 32, Data 2 - 32, End Flag - 2, CRC - 1 Start Flag: 0xF0F0 End Flag: 0xF0F0 Command Status：the definition of command code is as following 0x0002 – ACK of Read Digital I/O state 0x0004 – ACK of Trigger Digital I/O 0x0006 – ACK of E-mail Alarm Trigger 0x0010 – Report current Digital I/O state (If Auto Report I/O Status is enabled, you will receive this report packet from BF-2300) 0xFFFC – Flag error, incorrect Start Flag or End Flag received in command packet 0xFFFD – Length error, the length of command packet is invalid 0xFFFE – CRC error, incorrect CRC value 0xFFFF – Command error, no such command CRC value = 0 – total sum from field of ‘Start Flag” to “End Flag”
Here are some working examples, I just don't know how to add everything together to get that checksum.
Example 1 $F0,$F0,$00,$10,$00,$01,$00,$00,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$F0,$F0,$21 Example 2 $F0,$F0,$00,$10,$00,$00,$01,$00,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$F0,$F0,$21 Example 3 $F0,$F0,$00,$10,$01,$00,$01,$00,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$01,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$F0,$F0,$20
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Only Example 3 seems right the other 2 have the checksum (1F) and add 2 for some reason
Example 3, remove all the F0 (start + end bytes), remove the checksum 20, remove the 00, you'll be left with 16x01 and 1x10 if you calculate this (base 16) you will end up with 20. Your calculator probably has a base16 option or a 'programmer' option
By the way the easy way to do this is take TextEdit (notepad) (I have a mac), find and replace.. find $F0 replace with nothing (but hit replace), find $00 and replace with nothing, find ',' replace with nothing, find $ replace with + and manually remove the checksum (or find and replace) and remove the front +. There you will have your sum, easy way is to count the amount of 01 and add those together in base 10 and then convert that to base 16. then you can add the big numbers together (16x01 = 10 in base 16) 10 + 10 in base 16 = 20 in base 16. (32 in base 10)
If you're going to do this by hand, I really enjoy SpeQ Mathematics. It's a great "programmable" calculator.
However, if you want to calculate this checksum in NetLinx, give this function a try (this code has NOT been tested):
DEFINE_FUNCTION CreateChecksum(CHAR sArray[71]) { STACK_VAR INTEGER nByte; STACK_VAR INTEGER nChecksum; nChecksum = 0; FOR (nByte = 70; nByte; nByte--) { nChecksum = nChecksum + sArray[nByte]; } sArray[71] = TYPE_CAST((0 - nChecksum) & $FF); }The SpeQ calculator gives me 31
The example you provided gives me 31
I need to get to $20..= 32
Scratch that, something wasn't right, getting 32 now....Thanks.