tappipe 0.0.5

Tigo TAP->CCA RS485 Power Report Decoder

tappipe

Python library for decoding Tigo TAP->CCA RS485 Power Report packets More info available at https://github.com/kicomoco/tappipe

A big thank you to willglyn (https://github.com/willglynn/taptap) whose work in documenting the protocol and taptap program (written in rust) allowed me to create this python version.

PIP

This package has been built and uploaded to pypi, and can be installed with pip.

pip install tappipe

Please Note: obviously this command may be different on your system, pip, pip3, python -m pip, python3 -m pip....adjust as necessary!

Example Scripts

In the examples folder is an example mqtt script, that takes command line arguments for specifying MQTT server and the serial port to open

usage: tappipe [-h] -s MQTT_SERVER [-p MQTT_PORT] [-u MQTT_USERNAME]
               [-w MQTT_PASSWORD] -t MQTT_PREFIX -c SERIAL_PORT

What is returned?

The processor takes a byte array (in the mqtt example it is read from the serial port), and when it has a valid frame this is returned as an object.

Within the object it can be checked for the type of frame, the type of pv data (if exists), cmd type etc and then access the data packets in a parsed format for Power Reports.