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connected until the memory is cleared by a manual reset. If the memory was full, connection will
fail.
Data is transmitted via 433.92 MHz using OOK modulation. Connections are unidirectional, which
means that participants can either send or receive. As a result, transmitters are not aware of each
other and the receiver cannot acknowledge received messages. This lowers costs, because radio
modules are simpler, but it also leads to increased unreliability. Therefore, products of the EU-
series send their data up to seven times, whereof at least one must be received. Data transmission
is not encrypted; just a few devices of the UK-series use rolling code to encrypt their data.
However, these encrypted messaged need special receivers and cannot be read by other devices.
Protocol As already mentioned, there are different protocol types. Since they are all proprietary,
different data streams were recorded with a logic analyser and decoded manually. Figure 2.5 shows
three different protocols, which were sent by a HE853 USB dongle.
Figure 2.5.: Three different HE protocol types. The short bit at the start is a sync pulse, which
slightly increases the sensitivity of receivers.
a) encrypted UK-protocol with 29 bit
b) UK-simple protocol with 25 bit
c) Snippet of the 58 bit long EU-protocol
Each Bit is represented by one transition with two different timings for each level. Figure 2.6
shows the bit timings.
Every message is 58 bit long and contains a unique address as well as a state code. Figure 2.7
depicts a typical message from an on/off-switch. The address code consists of a fixed part
7
and
7
This part stayed the same for all combinations of device and group codes. It is not certain that this part is really
fixed, but the author could not prove the opposite.
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