I am working on an ECG module, which is giving out data in bytes. There's a protocol document about it explaining like how to structure the packets, that are coming out of the module. I want to decode that data. I am confused whether protocol buffers will help in this or not. Any other methods that would be helpful in this decoding and writing that protocol in Python ?
How can I use Protocol Buffers for structuring a third party serial Communication Protocol?
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Protocol buffers only works with its own encoding format.
For decoding a manufacturer-specific custom binary format, I would suggest Python's built-in struct module. Here is a basic tutorial which is easy get started with.
If the manufacturer-specific format is text based instead, you can either use basic string manipulation to split it into tokens, or one of the parsing libraries for Python.
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