@oric_dan: thanks for the remarks, I will add some extra info to the Github page.
About: "the human readable ASCII messages"
We actually send the ASCII values of hex characters between 0 and F (zero and F) (that implies being very inefficient, 240 unused values)
For example:
The packet: "T01N00I12PffQ21"
Would be 15 bytes on the wire (ASCII : HEX)
T: 54
0: 30
1: 31
N: 4E
0: 30
...
The downside:
- efficiency.
- it is quite simplistic
The upside is:
- Easy to parse (easy to see where a message starts and ends)
- Easy to read (mainly because of the delimiters)
- No problems with magic number or magic sequences for message headers