Is this a valid instruction packet?

2007-05-27T22:27:05+01:00

The problem is you don't include the two header bytes in the checksum calculation...

So, for turning it on:

FF FF 04 04 03 19 01 DA

checksum calc:

= ~(4 + 4 + 3 + 25 + 1)
= ~(37)
= 218
= 0xDA

for turning it off:

FF FF 04 04 03 19 00 DB

Also, you have to add all the values together, and then do the NOT calculation...

- Jon

Statistics: Posted by JonHylands — Sun May 27, 2007 10:27 pm

Is this a valid instruction packet?

2007-05-27T21:55:14+01:00

Is this a valid instruction packet? It's supposed to turn on Dynamixel #4's LED by writing a '1' to location 0x19:

0xff
0xff
0x04 (address = 4)
0x04 (length = 2 parameters + 2 = 4)
0x03 (instruction = WRITE)
0x19 (LED = register 0x19)
0x01 (new value = 1)
0xD6 (checksum)

checksum calculated by:
~0xff = 0x00
~0xff = 0x00
~0x04 = 0xfb
~0x04 = 0xfb
~0x03 = 0xfc
~0x19 = 0xe6
~0x01 = 0xfe
-------------
sum = 0x4D6
checksum byte thus = D6

It's not working, and before I start ripping apart the interface circuit, I want to make sure I'm at least sending a valid datagram

Statistics: Posted by Miamicanes — Sun May 27, 2007 9:55 pm

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Is this a valid instruction packet?

Is this a valid instruction packet?