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[Breaking News] Echelon/NES Smart Meters – Documentation for MEP and Optical interfaces have been released on GitHub!

It is with great pleasure we finally can announce the release of the following official OSGP Alliance documentation for OSGP Smart Meters (i.e. Echelon/NES Smart Meters): The Multipurpose Expansion Port (MEP) interface and protocol Optical interface and protocol You will find the PDF files in the Documentation repository at GitHub using this link: https://github.com/OSGP-Alliance-MEP-and-Optical. Thank you for …

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Echelon/NES Smart Meters – dabbling the hardware v1.10 and v2.00

Our software fix for the (fake?) MAX3232 hardware issue seems to solve the issue completely. It is still a rough implementation in the software (using delays), so we’ll have to improve on that later on… It is probably not that big of an issue – because when a MAX3232 starts to behave, it seems it …

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