Whereas most of the communication with the Cube goes via the TCP, some specific commands require the use of UDP comunication on port 23272
This is for example to discover a Cube on the network, to reset the device, and to set it to firmware update mode.
The cube provides the possibility to send a broadcast UDP packet to the network and as soon as it receives it, it answers and we know its IP from that packet.
This is the data (19 Byte) one must broadcast or multicast to UDP port 23272 to get an answer from the cube.
0000000000: 65 51 33 4D 61 78 2A 00 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A eQ3Max*.********
0000000010: 2A 2A 49 **I
To find a specific cube on the network replace the *
(2A) with the serial. Hence to find a specific cube send a discovery packet with the content: "eQ3Max*\0" + serialnumber + "I"
The answer (26Byte) can be received on UDP Port 23272 and looks like this:
0000000000: 65 51 33 4D 61 78 41 70 4B 45 51 30 35 32 33 38 eQ3MaxApKEQ05238
0000000010: 36 34 3E 49 00 09 7F 2C 01 13 64>I...,..
It consists of the following parts:
Description Length Example Value
=====================================================================
Name? 8 eQ3MaxAp
Serial number 10 KEQ0523864
Request ID 1 >
Request Type 1 I
RF address 3 097F2C
Firmware version 2 1.1.3
The most important info of this reply is the IP address that coumes with the UDP packet. This is a wireshark dump of the received packet:
No. Time Source Destination Protocol Length Info
679 228.941379000 192.168.178.22 192.168.178.23 UDP 68 Source port: s102 Destination port: s102
Frame 679: 68 bytes on wire (544 bits), 68 bytes captured (544 bits) on interface 0
Ethernet II, Src: Eq-3Entw_03:81:6c (00:1a:22:03:81:6c), Dst: IntelCor_52:e2:50 (24:77:03:52:e2:50)
Internet Protocol Version 4, Src: 192.168.178.22 (192.168.178.22), Dst: 192.168.178.23 (192.168.178.23)
User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: s102 (23272), Dst Port: s102 (23272)
Data (26 bytes)
You can clearly see the source IP 192.168.178.22
There are several other UDP request types
I Identify
N Get network address
h get URL information
c get network default info
R reboot
The network request needs to be made for a specific device hence the request "eQ3Max*\0" + serialnumber + "N"
For a get network address message the response is the following.
Description Length Example Value
=====================================================================
Name? 8 eQ3MaxAp
Serial number 10 KEQ0523864
Request ID 1 >
Request Type 1 N
IP address 4 The 4 bytes of the ip e.g. 192.168.1.9
Gateway address 4 The 4 bytes of the gateway e.g. 192.168.1.1
Netmask address 4 The 4 bytes of the netmask e.g. 255.255.255.255
DNS server 1 4 The 4 bytes of the dns e.g. 8.8.8.8
DNS server 2 4 The 4 bytes of the dns e.g. 8.8.4.4
The URL request needs to be made for a specific device hence the request "eQ3Max*\0" + serialnumber + "h"
00000000 65 51 33 4d 61 78 41 70 4b 45 51 30 35 36 35 30 eQ3MaxAp KEQ05650
00000010 32 36 3e 68 00 50 6d 61 78 2e 65 71 2d 33 2e 64 26>h.Pma x.eq-3.d
00000020 65 2c 2f 63 75 62 65 e,/cube
For a URL request message the response is the following.
Description Length Example Value
=====================================================================
Name? 8 eQ3MaxAp
Serial number 10 KEQ0523864
Request ID 1 >
Request Type 1 h
Port 2 80
server address 4 max.eq-3.de
Separator 1 ,
address path 4 /cube
The URL request needs to be made for a specific device hence the request "eQ3Max*\0" + serialnumber + "c"
For a c request message the response is the following.
00000000 65 51 33 4d 61 78 41 70 4b 45 51 30 35 36 35 30 eQ3MaxAp KEQ05650
00000010 32 36 3e 63 c0 a8 00 de c0 a8 00 01 ff ff 00 00 26>c.... ........
00000020 c0 a8 00 01 00 00 00 00 01 01 ........ ..
Description Length Example Value
=====================================================================
Name? 8 eQ3MaxAp
Serial number 10 KEQ0523864
Request ID 1 >
Request Type 1 c
IP address 4 The 4 bytes of the ip e.g. 192.168.0.222
Gateway address 4 The 4 bytes of the gateway e.g. 192.168.0.1
Netmask address 4 The 4 bytes of the netmask e.g. 255.255.0.0
DNS server 1 4 The 4 bytes of the DNS e.g. 192.168.0.1
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