Kipp & Zonen SOLYS Gear Drive, Instruction Manual

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This chapter describes the definition of the status messages. Each different record type has a unique record ID to specify the
selected type.
E.1 Message types
The following message types are defined:
Message type
0 Simple status message
1 Extended status message
2+ Reserved for future expansion
E.2 Status messages
The status messages are sent automatically every second. There are 2 formats available, a simple format and an extended
format.
E.2.1 Simple status message
Description
Message Type 0 Simple status message
Pos Field name Description
0 Message type 0
1 Hostname Instrument hostname
2 Date Current date, YYY/MM/DD
3 Time Current time, HH:MM:SS
4 Solar angle azimuth Calculated solar angles in degrees
North 0 degrees, east 90 degrees
5 Solar angle zenith Sky 0 degrees, horizon 90 degrees
6 Status code Status code, 3 hexadecimal nibbles. See paragraph E.2.3
7 Checksum CRC-16 reverse bit order with seed of 0 and XOR polynomial of 0xA001. The checksum is
calculated over all characters till (not including) the first character of the checksum. The
value is in hexadecimal notation (0x<hex>).
Example
Response
.status=0;SolysGDSom001;2014/10/28;14:26:24;-134.747698;75.851923;0x044;0x6648;<LF>
E. Description of the messages
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