Surface Book 2 / Surface Pro (2017) / Surface Laptop UART protocol proof-of-concept script.

mshw0084-rqst.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import json
import crcmod

from argparse import ArgumentParser

from pathlib import Path

import serial
from serial import Serial


DEFAULT_DEVICE = '/dev/ttyS4'
DEFAULT_BAUD_RATE = 3000000
CRC_FN = crcmod.predefined.mkCrcFun('crc-ccitt-false')


def setup_device(port, baudrate):
    # definition from DSDT
    return Serial(
        port=port,
        baudrate=baudrate,
        bytesize=serial.EIGHTBITS,
        parity=serial.PARITY_NONE,
        stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE,
        rtscts=False,
        dsrdtr=False,
        timeout=0,
    )


def crc(pld):
    x = CRC_FN(bytes(pld))
    return [x & 0xff, (x >> 0x08) & 0xff]


def to_int(bytes):
    return int.from_bytes(bytes, byteorder='little')


class Counters:
    PATH = Path(__file__).parent / '.counters.json'

    @staticmethod
    def load():
        if Counters.PATH.is_file():
            with open(Counters.PATH) as fd:
                data = json.load(fd)
                seq = data['seq']
                cnt = data['cnt']
        else:
            seq = 0x00
            cnt = 0x0000

        return Counters(seq, cnt)

    def __init__(self, seq, cnt):
        self.seq = seq
        self.cnt = cnt

    def store(self):
        with open(Counters.PATH, 'w') as fd:
            data = {'seq': self.seq, 'cnt': self.cnt}
            json.dump(data, fd)

    def inc_seq(self):
        self.seq = (self.seq + 1) & 0xFF

    def inc_cnt(self):
        self.cnt = (self.cnt + 1) & 0xFFFF

    def inc(self):
        self.inc_seq()
        self.inc_cnt()


class Command:
    def __init__(self, rtc, riid, rcid, rsnc=0x01, quiet=False):
        self.rtc = rtc
        self.riid = riid
        self.rcid = rcid
        self.rsnc = rsnc
        self.quiet = quiet

    def _write_msg(self, dev, seq, cnt):
        cnt_lo = cnt & 0xff
        cnt_hi = (cnt >> 0x08) & 0xff

        hdr = [0x80, 0x08, 0x00, seq]
        pld = [0x80, self.rtc, 0x01, 0x00, self.riid, cnt_lo, cnt_hi, self.rcid]
        msg = [0xaa, 0x55] + hdr + crc(hdr) + pld + crc(pld)

        return dev.write(bytes(msg))

    def _write_ack(self, dev, seq):
        hdr = [0x40, 0x00, 0x00, seq]
        msg = [0xaa, 0x55] + hdr + crc(hdr) + [0xff, 0xff]

        return dev.write(bytes(msg))

    def _read_ack(self, dev, exp_seq):
        msg = bytes()
        while len(msg) < 0x0A:
            msg += dev.read(0x0A - len(msg))

        if not self.quiet:
            print("received: {}".format(msg.hex()))

        assert msg[0:2] == bytes([0xaa, 0x55])
        assert msg[3:5] == bytes([0x00, 0x00])
        assert msg[6:8] == bytes(crc(msg[2:-4]))
        assert msg[8:] == bytes([0xff, 0xff])

        mty = msg[2]
        seq = msg[5]

        if mty == 0x40:
            assert seq == exp_seq

        return mty == 0x04

    def _read_msg(self, dev, cnt):
        cnt_lo = cnt & 0xff
        cnt_hi = (cnt >> 0x08) & 0xff

        buf = bytes()
        rem = 0x08                          # begin with header length
        while len(buf) < rem:
            buf += dev.read(0x0400)

            # if we got a header, validate it
            if rem == 0x08 and len(buf) >= 0x08:
                hdr = buf[0:8]

                assert hdr[0:3] == bytes([0xaa, 0x55, 0x80])
                assert hdr[-2:] == bytes(crc(hdr[2:-2]))

                rem += hdr[3] + 10          # len(payload) + frame + crc

        hdr = buf[0:8]
        msg = buf[8:hdr[3]+10]
        rem = buf[hdr[3]+10:]

        if not self.quiet:
            print("received: {}".format(hdr.hex()))
            print("received: {}".format(msg.hex()))

        assert msg[0:8] == bytes([0x80, self.rtc, 0x00, 0x01, self.riid, cnt_lo, cnt_hi, self.rcid])
        assert msg[-2:] == bytes(crc(msg[:-2]))

        seq = hdr[5]
        pld = msg[8:-2]

        return seq, pld, rem

    def _read_clean(self, dev, buf=bytes()):
        buf += dev.read(0x0400)                     # make sure we're not missing some bytes

        while buf:
            # get header / detect message type
            if len(buf) >= 0x08:
                if buf[0:3] == bytes([0xaa, 0x55, 0x40]):               # ACK
                    while len(buf) < 0x0A:
                        buf += dev.read(0x0400)

                    if not self.quiet:
                        print("ignored ACK: {}".format(buf[:0x0a].hex()))
                    buf = bytes(buf[0x0a:])

                elif buf[0:3] == bytes([0xaa, 0x55, 0x80]):             # response
                    buflen = 0x0a + buf[3]
                    while len(buf) < buflen:
                        buf += dev.read(0x0400)

                    if not self.quiet:
                        print("ignored MSG: {}".format(buf[:buflen].hex()))
                    buf = bytes(buf[buflen:])

                elif buf[0:3] == bytes([0x4e, 0x00, 0x53]):             # control message?
                    while len(buf) < 0x19:
                        buf += dev.read(0x0400)

                    if not self.quiet:
                        print("ignored CTRL: {}".format(buf[:0x19].hex()))
                    buf = bytes(buf[0x19:])

                else:                                                   # unknown
                    if not self.quiet:
                        print("ignored unknown: {}".format(buf.hex()))
                    assert False

            buf += dev.read(0x0400)

    def run(self, dev, cnt):
        self._read_clean(dev)
        self._write_msg(dev, cnt.seq, cnt.cnt)
        retry = self._read_ack(dev, cnt.seq)

        # retry one time on com failure
        if retry:
            self._write_msg(dev, cnt.seq, cnt.cnt)
            retry = self._read_ack(dev, cnt.seq)

            if retry:
                if not self.quiet:
                    print('Communication failure: invalid ACK, try again')
                return

        try:
            if self.rsnc:
                seq, pld, rem = self._read_msg(dev, cnt.cnt)
                self._write_ack(dev, seq)
            else:
                seq, pld, rem = 0, bytes(), bytes()

            self._read_clean(dev, rem)
        finally:
            cnt.inc()

        return self._handle_payload(pld)

    def _handle_payload(self, pld):
        return None


class Gbos(Command):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(0x11, 0x00, 0x0d, **kwargs)

    def _handle_payload(self, pld):
        return {
            'Base Status': hex(pld[0]),
        }


class Psr(Command):
    def __init__(self, bat, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x0d, **kwargs)

    def _handle_payload(self, pld):
        return {
            'Power Source': hex(to_int(pld[0:4])),
        }


class Sta(Command):
    def __init__(self, bat, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x01, **kwargs)

    def _handle_payload(self, pld):
        return {
            'Battery Status': hex(to_int(pld[0:4])),
        }


class Bst(Command):
    def __init__(self, bat, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x03, **kwargs)

    def _handle_payload(self, pld):
        return {
            'State': hex(to_int(pld[0:4])),
            'Present Rate': hex(to_int(pld[4:8])),
            'Remaining Capacity': hex(to_int(pld[8:12])),
            'Present Voltage': hex(to_int(pld[12:16])),
        }


class Bix(Command):
    def __init__(self, bat, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x02, **kwargs)

    def _handle_payload(self, pld):
        return {
            'Revision': hex(pld[0]),
            'Power Unit': hex(to_int(pld[1:5])),
            'Design Capacity': hex(to_int(pld[5:9])),
            'Last Full Charge Capacity': hex(to_int(pld[9:13])),
            'Technology': hex(to_int(pld[13:17])),
            'Design Voltage': hex(to_int(pld[17:21])),
            'Design Capacity of Warning': hex(to_int(pld[21:25])),
            'Design Capacity of Low': hex(to_int(pld[25:29])),
            'Cycle Count': hex(to_int(pld[29:33])),
            'Measurement Accuracy': hex(to_int(pld[33:37])),
            'Max Sampling Time': hex(to_int(pld[37:41])),
            'Min Sampling Time': hex(to_int(pld[41:45])),
            'Max Averaging Interval': hex(to_int(pld[45:49])),
            'Min Averaging Interval': hex(to_int(pld[49:53])),
            'Capacity Granularity 1': hex(to_int(pld[53:57])),
            'Capacity Granularity 2': hex(to_int(pld[57:61])),
            'Model Number': pld[61:82].decode().rstrip('\0'),
            'Serial Number': pld[82:93].decode().rstrip('\0'),
            'Type': pld[93:98].decode().rstrip('\0'),
            'OEM Information': pld[98:119].decode().rstrip('\0'),
        }


class PrettyBat:
    def __init__(self, bat, **kwargs):
        self.bix = Bix(bat, **kwargs)
        self.bst = Bst(bat, **kwargs)

    def run(self, dev, cnt):
        bix = self.bix.run(dev, cnt)
        bst = self.bst.run(dev, cnt)

        state = int(bst['State'], 0)
        vol = int(bst['Present Voltage'], 0)
        rem_cap = int(bst['Remaining Capacity'], 0)
        full_cap = int(bix['Last Full Charge Capacity'], 0)
        rate = int(bst['Present Rate'], 0)

        bat_states = {
            0: 'None',
            1: 'Discharging',
            2: 'Charging',
            4: 'Critical',
            5: 'Critical (Discharging)',
            6: 'Critical (Charging)',
        }

        bat_state = bat_states[state]
        bat_vol = vol / 1000

        if full_cap <= 0:
            bat_rem_perc = '<unavailable>'
        else:
            bat_rem_perc = "{}%".format(int(rem_cap / full_cap * 100))

        if state == 0x00 or rate == 0:
            bat_rem_life = '<unavailable>'
        else:
            bat_rem_life = "{:.2f}h".format(rem_cap / rate)

        return {
            'State': bat_state,
            'Voltage': "{}V".format(bat_vol),
            'Percentage': bat_rem_perc,
            'Remaing ': bat_rem_life,
        }


class BaseLock(Command):
    def __init__(self, lock, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(0x11, 0x00, 0x06 if lock else 0x07, 0x00, **kwargs)


COMMANDS = {
    'lid0.gbos': (Gbos, ()),
    'adp1._psr': (Psr, (0x01,)),
    'bat1._sta': (Sta, (0x01,)),
    'bat1._bst': (Bst, (0x01,)),
    'bat1._bix': (Bix, (0x01,)),
    'bat2._sta': (Sta, (0x02,)),
    'bat2._bst': (Bst, (0x02,)),
    'bat2._bix': (Bix, (0x02,)),

    'bat1.pretty': (PrettyBat, (0x01,)),
    'bat2.pretty': (PrettyBat, (0x02,)),

    'base.lock': (BaseLock, (True,)),
    'base.unlock': (BaseLock, (False,)),
}


def main():
    cli = ArgumentParser(description='Surface Book 2 / Surface Pro (2017) embedded controller requests.')
    cli.add_argument('-d', '--device', default=DEFAULT_DEVICE, metavar='DEV', help='the UART device')
    cli.add_argument('-b', '--baud', default=DEFAULT_BAUD_RATE, type=lambda x: int(x, 0), metavar='BAUD', help='the baud rate')
    cli.add_argument('-c', '--cnt', type=lambda x: int(x, 0), help='overwrite CNT')
    cli.add_argument('-s', '--seq', type=lambda x: int(x, 0), help='overwrite SEQ')
    cli.add_argument('-q', '--quiet', action='store_true', help='do not print debug messages, just results')
    commands = cli.add_subparsers()

    for cmd in COMMANDS.keys():
        parser = commands.add_parser(cmd, help="run request '{}'".format(cmd.upper()))
        parser.set_defaults(command=cmd)

    args = cli.parse_args()

    dev = setup_device(args.device, args.baud)
    cmd = COMMANDS.get(args.command)
    cmd = cmd[0](*cmd[1], quiet=args.quiet)

    cnt = Counters.load()
    if args.seq is not None:
        cnt.seq = args.seq
    if args.cnt is not None:
        cnt.cnt = args.cnt

    try:
        res = cmd.run(dev, cnt)

        if args.quiet:
            for k, v in sorted(res.items()):
                print("{}: {}".format(k, v))
        else:
            import pprint
            print()
            pprint.pprint(res)

    finally:
        cnt.store()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Pipfile

[[source]]
url = "https://pypi.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true
name = "pypi"

[packages]
crcmod = "*"
pyserial = "*"

[dev-packages]
pylint = "*"

@qzed, I have been playing with your script a bit and modified it to send the adapter, bst, and bix commands off every 5 seconds. I also added retires to the commands when they failed. After a period of time I would get failures to the point of it no longer working and had to reboot to clear it up. I made some changes to read extra bytes off of the device after a failure and to my surprise at times I was seeing as many as 1000+ extra bytes read in. I was still getting failures but they would clear up and I could continue to run. Then I decided to add a _clear_extra_bytes(self, dev) function to the Command class, just a while True reading 536 bytes off the dev until no bytes came back. I called this function at the top of the Command run() function and if a failure occured, and virtually all of my failures went away. I am now only seeing 25 more or less extra bytes read in only occasionally at the top of the run() command. Hope this helps.

@bpasteur Interesting, have you tried to set the main read to something above 536 bytes? Also did you do this with a modified version of the script? If so you may have to call Serial.reset_input_buffer() in-between requests. This should basically do what you did manually.

Also sorry it took me so long to answer, I'm back working on this now.

@bpasteur I've updated the script to read (and try to decode) any remaining bytes in the buffer before and after each command (similar to what you've suggested). I've been running bat1.pretty and bat2.pretty for a while now in combination with the sched module (repeating every 5 seconds) and have not experienced any problems yet.

@qzed not sure why you would try to decode the extra data. Once you send your request and process what you expected seems to me you should just throw away anything else, that;s what I have been doing. This may be something you need to do in the driver. This Linux Adapter driver that loads was not specifically written for this UART hardware and I believe loads as a 'hardware family' type driver. I suspect there are some issues with the hardware that need to be handled slightly differently is why we are seeing these extra bytes or perhaps it's timing issues that may go away if a driver is accessing this data.

As far as it taking you a long time to reply, completely understood and expected... we all have other obligations that take precedence

@bpasteur

not sure why you would try to decode the extra data

That is mainly to see what else is being sent, I'd like to get a good overview of this (and how the device behaves) before discarding stuff (for stability I agree that it's better to just discard it, e.g. by flushing the buffer as mentioned previously).

I've also been playing around with various timeouts between the request and acknowledgement of the response. So far I can reproduce some of the responses we've seen earlier (e.g. swapped bytes) by this. I also think that (at least the duplicated messages) are timing issues that should get resolved with the driver, simply due to the latency involved.

Interestingly I haven't been able to reproduce the 4e 00 53 4d 50 ... messages with the new read setup.

Thanks for all your hard work on this script. Just to let you know "precentage" should be "percentage".

@JackMorganNZ Oops, thanks for catching that!

Thanks @qzed for that great script!!

Since I want to use it in one of my own scripts, I took the liberty to add the command line switch -q|--quiet to remove the debugging output. I also changed the output in quiet mode to make it easier to parse (by not using pprint, thus removing the curly brackets). If you want to include it into your script, please feel free to do:

--- /home/sph/Software/sb2-batteryORIG.py
+++ /home/sph/Software/sb2-batteryNEW.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 import json
-import pprint
 import crcmod
 
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
@@ -77,11 +76,12 @@
 
 
 class Command:
-    def __init__(self, rtc, riid, rcid, rsnc=0x01):
+    def __init__(self, rtc, riid, rcid, rsnc=0x01, quiet=False):
         self.rtc = rtc
         self.riid = riid
         self.rcid = rcid
         self.rsnc = rsnc
+        self.quiet = quiet
 
     def _write_msg(self, dev, seq, cnt):
         cnt_lo = cnt & 0xff
@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@
         while len(msg) < 0x0A:
             msg += dev.read(0x0A - len(msg))
 
-        print("received: {}".format(msg.hex()))
+        if not self.quiet:
+            print("received: {}".format(msg.hex()))
 
         assert msg[0:2] == bytes([0xaa, 0x55])
         assert msg[3:5] == bytes([0x00, 0x00])
@@ -141,8 +142,9 @@
         msg = buf[8:hdr[3]+10]
         rem = buf[hdr[3]+10:]
 
-        print("received: {}".format(hdr.hex()))
-        print("received: {}".format(msg.hex()))
+        if not self.quiet:
+            print("received: {}".format(hdr.hex()))
+            print("received: {}".format(msg.hex()))
 
         assert msg[0:8] == bytes([0x80, self.rtc, 0x00, 0x01, self.riid, cnt_lo, cnt_hi, self.rcid])
         assert msg[-2:] == bytes(crc(msg[:-2]))
@@ -162,7 +164,8 @@
                     while len(buf) < 0x0A:
                         buf += dev.read(0x0400)
 
-                    print("ignored ACK: {}".format(buf[:0x0a].hex()))
+                    if not self.quiet:
+                        print("ignored ACK: {}".format(buf[:0x0a].hex()))
                     buf = bytes(buf[0x0a:])
 
                 elif buf[0:3] == bytes([0xaa, 0x55, 0x80]):             # response
@@ -170,18 +173,21 @@
                     while len(buf) < buflen:
                         buf += dev.read(0x0400)
 
-                    print("ignored MSG: {}".format(buf[:buflen].hex()))
+                    if not self.quiet:
+                        print("ignored MSG: {}".format(buf[:buflen].hex()))
                     buf = bytes(buf[buflen:])
 
                 elif buf[0:3] == bytes([0x4e, 0x00, 0x53]):             # control message?
                     while len(buf) < 0x19:
                         buf += dev.read(0x0400)
 
-                    print("ignored CTRL: {}".format(buf[:0x19].hex()))
+                    if not self.quiet:
+                        print("ignored CTRL: {}".format(buf[:0x19].hex()))
                     buf = bytes(buf[0x19:])
 
                 else:                                                   # unknown
-                    print("ignored unknown: {}".format(buf.hex()))
+                    if not self.quiet:
+                        print("ignored unknown: {}".format(buf.hex()))
                     assert False
 
             buf += dev.read(0x0400)
@@ -197,7 +203,8 @@
             retry = self._read_ack(dev, cnt.seq)
 
             if retry:
-                print('Communication failure: invalid ACK, try again')
+                if not self.quiet:
+                    print('Communication failure: invalid ACK, try again')
                 return
 
         try:
@@ -218,8 +225,8 @@
 
 
 class Gbos(Command):
-    def __init__(self):
-        super().__init__(0x11, 0x00, 0x0d)
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(0x11, 0x00, 0x0d, **kwargs)
 
     def _handle_payload(self, pld):
         return {
@@ -228,8 +235,8 @@
 
 
 class Psr(Command):
-    def __init__(self, bat):
-        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x0d)
+    def __init__(self, bat, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x0d, **kwargs)
 
     def _handle_payload(self, pld):
         return {
@@ -238,8 +245,8 @@
 
 
 class Sta(Command):
-    def __init__(self, bat):
-        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x01)
+    def __init__(self, bat, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x01, **kwargs)
 
     def _handle_payload(self, pld):
         return {
@@ -248,8 +255,8 @@
 
 
 class Bst(Command):
-    def __init__(self, bat):
-        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x03)
+    def __init__(self, bat, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x03, **kwargs)
 
     def _handle_payload(self, pld):
         return {
@@ -261,8 +268,8 @@
 
 
 class Bix(Command):
-    def __init__(self, bat):
-        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x02)
+    def __init__(self, bat, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(0x02, bat, 0x02, **kwargs)
 
     def _handle_payload(self, pld):
         return {
@@ -290,9 +297,9 @@
 
 
 class PrettyBat:
-    def __init__(self, bat):
-        self.bix = Bix(bat)
-        self.bst = Bst(bat)
+    def __init__(self, bat, **kwargs):
+        self.bix = Bix(bat, **kwargs)
+        self.bst = Bst(bat, **kwargs)
 
     def run(self, dev, cnt):
         bix = self.bix.run(dev, cnt)
@@ -335,25 +342,25 @@
 
 
 class BaseLock(Command):
-    def __init__(self, lock):
-        super().__init__(0x11, 0x00, 0x06 if lock else 0x07, 0x00)
+    def __init__(self, lock, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(0x11, 0x00, 0x06 if lock else 0x07, 0x00, **kwargs)
 
 
 COMMANDS = {
-    'lid0.gbos': Gbos(),
-    'adp1._psr': Psr(0x01),
-    'bat1._sta': Sta(0x01),
-    'bat1._bst': Bst(0x01),
-    'bat1._bix': Bix(0x01),
-    'bat2._sta': Sta(0x02),
-    'bat2._bst': Bst(0x02),
-    'bat2._bix': Bix(0x02),
-
-    'bat1.pretty': PrettyBat(0x01),
-    'bat2.pretty': PrettyBat(0x02),
-
-    'base.lock': BaseLock(True),
-    'base.unlock': BaseLock(False),
+    'lid0.gbos': (Gbos, ()),
+    'adp1._psr': (Psr, (0x01,)),
+    'bat1._sta': (Sta, (0x01,)),
+    'bat1._bst': (Bst, (0x01,)),
+    'bat1._bix': (Bix, (0x01,)),
+    'bat2._sta': (Sta, (0x02,)),
+    'bat2._bst': (Bst, (0x02,)),
+    'bat2._bix': (Bix, (0x02,)),
+
+    'bat1.pretty': (PrettyBat, (0x01,)),
+    'bat2.pretty': (PrettyBat, (0x02,)),
+
+    'base.lock': (BaseLock, (True,)),
+    'base.unlock': (BaseLock, (False,)),
 }
 
 
@@ -363,6 +370,7 @@
     cli.add_argument('-b', '--baud', default=DEFAULT_BAUD_RATE, type=lambda x: int(x, 0), metavar='BAUD', help='the baud rate')
     cli.add_argument('-c', '--cnt', type=lambda x: int(x, 0), help='overwrite CNT')
     cli.add_argument('-s', '--seq', type=lambda x: int(x, 0), help='overwrite SEQ')
+    cli.add_argument('-q', '--quiet', action='store_true', help='do not print debug messages, just results')
     commands = cli.add_subparsers()
 
     for cmd in COMMANDS.keys():
@@ -373,6 +381,7 @@
 
     dev = setup_device(args.device, args.baud)
     cmd = COMMANDS.get(args.command)
+    cmd = cmd[0](*cmd[1], quiet=args.quiet)
 
     cnt = Counters.load()
     if args.seq is not None:
@@ -383,8 +392,14 @@
     try:
         res = cmd.run(dev, cnt)
 
-        print()
-        pprint.pprint(res)
+        if args.quiet:
+            for k, v in sorted(res.items()):
+                print("{}: {}".format(k, v))
+        else:
+            import pprint
+            print()
+            pprint.pprint(res)
+
     finally:
         cnt.store()
 

@sphh seems like a good idea, patch applied, thanks!

@qzed
just a little side note:
I kind of think that the the script is overreading its boundaries for the fields:

            'Revision': hex(pld[0]),
            'Power Unit': hex(to_int(pld[1:5])),
            'Design Capacity': hex(to_int(pld[5:9])),
            'Last Full Charge Capacity': hex(to_int(pld[9:13])),
            'Technology': hex(to_int(pld[13:17])),
            'Design Voltage': hex(to_int(pld[17:21])),
            'Design Capacity of Warning': hex(to_int(pld[21:25])),
'Design Capacity of Low': hex(to_int(pld[25:29])),

You start from 0, then from1 to 5, then 5 to 9, 9 to 13, and so on. Aren't you overlapping bytes here or is that done on purpose?
I also see lots of progress. I will work it in to the fakedev stuff (later tomorrow).

@calvous The last index is exclusive (while the first one is inclusive), so it actually gets bytes 1 to (inclusively) 4 for eg. the "Power Unit", if that is what you mean.

@qzed
yes, that's it. Thanks.