I am using Lapsnapper (a transponder timing system) running on Android.
Lapsnapper enables a TCP/IP server with which a connection can be made, to build a custom interface and get some other relevant data RE: the transponders etc from the system.
I do not understand the Lapsnapper tcp server specification.
I have done some tcp stuff before, but I am mostly a higher level programmer and to be honest I am a bit out of my depth with this raw TCP stuff.
The spec reads:
What I don't understand is how to "send" the tcp data?
I don't understand how 0x70, 0x17
equates to (6000) and 2 bytes...
The same goes for 0x13, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 = 19
which the spec says should be 4 bytes, but a string of "19" is 2 bytes?
I am trying to understand what I am reading. Any help would be appreciated as I need to do quite a bit of comms to this server, and I want to understand what I am doing...
I have asked for help from lapsnapper support, but in the mean time I would like to learn something new as per the above.
What do I actually "send" on the TCP connection?
The spec says that I should expect a message back, but with my current implementation, a connection seems to be established, but I never receive anything back.
Response Message to expect:
My code: (P.S This code block works if I do a simple connection to a SMTP server and I can do a basic connection with reply from said smtp server. I however never receive a reply when I try to talk to the Lapsnapper TCP server using the code below)
string lapSnapperIP = "10.0.0.131";
int lapsnapperPort = 9001;
string lapSnapperMessageID;
string lapsnapperLengthOfMessage;
string lapsnapperProductID;
string lapsnapperServerVersion;
string lapsnapperPasswordLength;
string lapsnapperPassword;
lapSnapperMessageID = "6000";
lapsnapperLengthOfMessage = "19"; //to implement
lapsnapperProductID = "50";
lapsnapperServerVersion = "100000";
lapsnapperPasswordLength = "4";
lapsnapperPassword = "1234";
string lapSnapperDataSend;
lapSnapperDataSend = lapSnapperMessageID + lapsnapperLengthOfMessage + lapsnapperProductID + lapsnapperServerVersion + lapsnapperPasswordLength + lapsnapperPassword;
s.Connect(lapSnapperIP, lapsnapperPort);
byte[] sendMessage = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(lapSnapperDataSend);
byte[] receiveBytes = new byte[256];
int i = 0;
string receivedMessage = "";
//send data
i = s.Send(sendMessage);
//receive data
i = s.Receive(receiveBytes); // (no reply here...)
receivedMessage = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(receiveBytes);
Thanks