Help With Bofan pt600
I also found this code from opengts TrackClientPacketHandlerjava file for the pt600. Maybe it can help to identify how the unit send data?
1153 /* parse and insert data record */
1154 // this format supports some Bofan devices (PT600/PT502/PT300X)
1155 private byte[] parseInsertRecord_Device_1(String s)
1156 {
1157 // Format:
1158 // $<EventCode>,<MobileID>,<HHMMSS>,<GPSValid>,<NMEALat>,<N|S>,<NMEALon>,<E|W>,<SpeedKnots>,<Heading>,<DDMMYY>
1159 // Example:
1160 // $POS,10000,102215.000,V,2233.8171,N,14205.6367,W,0.0,0.0,250411
1161 // 0--- 1---- 2--------- 3 4-------- 5 6--------- 7 8-- 9-- A-----
1162 // | | | | | | | | | | |>DDMMYY
1163 // | | | | | | | | | |>Heading
1164 // | | | | | | | | |>Speed Knots
1165 // | | | | | | | |>E|W
1166 // | | | | | | |>Longitude DDDmm.mmmm
1167 // | | | | | |>N|S
1168 // | | | | |>Latitude DDmm.mmmm
1169 // | | | |>A=ValidGPS, V=InvalidGPS
1170 // | | |>HHMMSS
1171 // | |>MobileID
1172 // |>$POS: POS=PositionData
1173 Print.logInfo("Parsing: " + s);
1174
1175 /* pre-validate */
1176 if (StringTools.isBlank(s)) {
1177 Print.logError("Packet string is blank/null");
1178 return null;
1179 } else
1180 if (!s.startsWith("$")) {
1181 Print.logError("Packet string does not start with '$'");
1182 return null;
1183 }
1184
1185 /* separate into fields */
1186 String fld[] = StringTools.parseStringArray(s.substring(1), ',');
1187 if ((fld == null) || (fld.length < 11)) {
1188 Print.logWarn("Invalid number of fields");
1189 return null;
1190 }
1191
1192 /* parse individual fields */
1193 String eventCode = fld[0];
1194 String modemID = fld[1].toLowerCase();
1195 long fixtime = Nmea0183.parseFixtime (fld[10], fld[2], true);
1196 boolean validGPS = fld[3].equalsIgnoreCase("A");
1197 double latitude = validGPS? Nmea0183.ParseLatitude (fld[ 4], fld[5], 90.0) : 0.0;
1198 double longitude = validGPS? Nmea0183.ParseLongitude(fld[ 6], fld[7], 180.0) : 0.0;
1199 double speedKnot = validGPS? StringTools.parseDouble(fld[ 8], 0.0) : 0.0;
1200 double speedKPH = validGPS? (speedKnot * KILOMETERS_PER_KNOT) : 0.0;
1201 double heading = validGPS? StringTools.parseDouble(fld[ 9], 0.0) : 0.0;
1202 double altitudeM = 0.0; //
1203
1204 /* status code */
1205 int statusCode = StatusCodes.STATUS_LOCATION;
1206 if (StringTools.isBlank(eventCode)) {
1207 // -- blank, leave as-is
1208 } else
1209 if (eventCode.equalsIgnoreCase("POS")) {
1210 // -- "Position" event
1211 statusCode = StatusCodes.STATUS_LOCATION;
1212 } else
1213 if (eventCode.equalsIgnoreCase("IN1")) {
1214 // -- "SOS" button
1215 statusCode = StatusCodes.STATUS_WAYMARK_1;
1216 } else
1217 if (eventCode.equalsIgnoreCase("IN2")) {
1218 // -- "KEY2" alarm
1219 statusCode = StatusCodes.STATUS_WAYMARK_2;
1220 } else
1221 if (eventCode.equalsIgnoreCase("IN3")) {
1222 // -- "KEY2" alarm
1223 statusCode = StatusCodes.STATUS_WAYMARK_3;
1224 } else
1225 if (eventCode.equalsIgnoreCase("LPA")) {
1226 // -- "Low Power" alarm
1227 statusCode = StatusCodes.STATUS_LOW_BATTERY;
1228 } else
1229 if (eventCode.equalsIgnoreCase("CPA")) {
1230 // -- "Cut Power" alarm
1231 statusCode = StatusCodes.STATUS_POWER_FAILURE;
1232 } else
1233 if (eventCode.equalsIgnoreCase("SPD")) {
1234 // -- "Speeding" alarm
1235 statusCode = StatusCodes.STATUS_MOTION_EXCESS_SPEED;
1236 } else
1237 if (eventCode.equalsIgnoreCase("GOF")) {
1238 // -- "Geofence" alarm
1239 statusCode = StatusCodes.STATUS_GEOFENCE_VIOLATION;
1240 } else
1241 if (eventCode.startsWith("0x") || eventCode.startsWith("0X")) {
1242 // -- specific status code (specified as a hex value)
1243 int sc = StringTools.parseInt(eventCode,-1);
1244 if ((sc > 0) && (sc <= 0xFFFF)) {
1245 statusCode = sc;
1246 }
1247 } else
1248 if (Character.isDigit(eventCode.charAt(0))) {
1249 // -- specific status code (specified as a decimal value)
1250 int sc = StringTools.parseInt(eventCode,-1);
1251 if ((sc > 0) && (sc <= 0xFFFF)) {
1252 statusCode = sc;
1253 }
1254 } else {
1255 // -- leave as-is
1256 }
1257
1258 /* GPS Event */
1259 this.gpsEvent = this.createGPSEvent(modemID);
1260 if (this.gpsEvent == null) {
1261 // errors already displayed
1262 return null;
1263 }
1264
1265 /* populate GPS event fields */
1266 this.gpsEvent.setTimestamp(fixtime);
1267 this.gpsEvent.setStatusCode(statusCode);
1268 this.gpsEvent.setLatitude(latitude);
1269 this.gpsEvent.setLongitude(longitude);
1270 this.gpsEvent.setSpeedKPH(speedKPH);
1271 this.gpsEvent.setHeading(heading);
1272 this.gpsEvent.setAltitude(altitudeM);
1273
1274 /* insert/return */
1275 if (this.parseInsertRecord_Common(this.gpsEvent)) {
1276 // change this to return any required acknowledgement (ACK) packets back to the Device
1277 return null;
1278 } else {
1279 return null;
1280 }
1281
1282 }
I'm not sure what those short messages are. We need protocol documentation to implement it.
Does this document help? I asked bofan to send me their protocol and this is what I got.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ug66qf5ffifvcmq/BOFAN%20Protocol-V1.2.pdf?dl=0
Does this help in the configuration?
It does not describe those messages. Either documentation is not full, or it's just a device issue.
Hi,
I have successfully connected my bofan pt600 to my traccar server but it is not working as well as it should. I'm new to this but from the server logs, I see that it connects as instructed every 120 seconds but after the initial ping which the server recognizes, it send data that the server doesn't recognize. I think these are short updates to its position that need interpretation as this unit was built to save data transmission.
Is there any way to configure the server to recognize these small updates?
A short snippet of the server log is below: