Data Sniffer

This program is to sniff all the data from the MDB Bus using our API. This program saves the data on a text file that you can use later for analyses.

import serial

import sys

import datetime

import time

if len( sys.argv ) > 1 :

port_name = sys.argv[1]

#Open serial port

serialPort = serial.Serial(

port = port_name, baudrate=115200, bytesize=8, timeout=0.1, stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE

);

last_time = 0

current_time = datetime.datetime.now() #get initial date for record file name

#create initial file

name_current_file = "REC "

if(current_time.day < 10):

name_current_file += "0"

name_current_file += str(current_time.day)

name_current_file += "-"

if(current_time.month < 10):

name_current_file += "0"

name_current_file += str(current_time.month)

name_current_file += "-"

name_current_file += str(current_time.year)

To execute the program, just copy the code above to a file "sniffer.py" or download it from here and run it like shown below.

sudo python3 sniffer.py <serial_port>

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