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I had a feeling you may say that! I am trying and will post here if I manage it. If anyone has any tips then please do share. wish me luck      

So good progress I think now I am a bit confused about the power reading though. I am connected to the power device (stages crank left side on stages SB20 bike) and I am getting data, but it does not seem to correlate to what it should be, and its leaping all over the place. Looking at the device profile two elements are listed for power as below.

Byte 6 Instantaneous Power LSB
Byte 7 Instantaneous Power MSB

Am I supposed to read one of these, or both or add them? I don't understand what LSB and MSB mean.

I get readings but they don't seem quite right to me. This could be totally wrong as I am learning as I go, so any help would be gratefully received!

Thanks

     

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_numbering

LSB=least significant bit, MSB=most significant bit

For an example how to decode LSB and MSB, please take a look at the scan.py (https://github.com/pirower/openant/blob/master/examples/scan.py) example:



You don't have to format it to a string      

ah ok, that makes sense.

This seems to work, thanks so much for the heads up!

PowerNumberLSB=data[6]
PowerNumberMSB=data[7]
self.power = "{}".format(PowerNumberLSB + (PowerNumberMSB << 2))


however the example in scan uses <<8, is there a recommended metric for this? I have tried both and there isn't too much difference.

I also realised that I was receiving a few different data pages, which was throwing out my figures too. I am not filtering down just to "main page" which is helping also.

Thanks

Danny      

Hi,

you might want to check what the "<<" function does in python, especially when it comes to bits. I wouldn't change <<8 to <<2 without knowing what it does.

Concerning the different pages: in the document "ANT+ Device Profile - Bicycle Power" you can see under chapter 7 "Bicycle Power Sensor Types" the different pages depending on the sensor type you are using. If you want to decrypt the received data, you need to know which data page you are receiving...