CF-MU804 is discontinued. CF-E714 is the replacement does it work with this library?

[fyksen]

Title pretty much sums it up.
The CF-E714 is impossible to buy now, and CHAFON CF-E714 looks to be the replacement. Will it work with this library?

[wabson]

I'm afraid I don't have any of the newer Chafon devices but a starting point would be to add the device ID to the enum base.ReaderType. It's possible other changes may be required if there are protocol changes but please feel free to try it out and submit a PR with any changes.

[fyksen]

I have orderet it, will test when it arrives.
How do I know what Enum it is?

Here's the documentation for the device:
https://github.com/fyksen/E710-module-Series-SDK

[wabson]

The technical manual specifies it on p57, thanks for the repo as I found the download links on the Chafon site no longer work

Reader model code, 0x0c is RRU2881M / RRU2881LITE

So in this case the device ID is 0x0c. This is the same as the older UHFReader288M, so hopefully you will find the protocols are unchanged from that.

Please do update when the device arrives, it would be interesting to see the result.

[fyksen]

Hello again. I have received the reader and testet a bit.
Seems like the Reade model code is not 0x0c, as stated in the documentation. Maybe they re used the manual?

I get this error when trying to run the get-reader-info.py:

[fyksen@fyksen-xps examples]$ python get-reader-info.py /dev/ttyUSB0 
Unknown reader type: 117 is not a valid ReaderType

If I set the reader to:
UHFReader288M = 0x75 # Changed for demo

I get this output:

[fyksen@fyksen-xps examples]$ python get-reader-info.py /dev/ttyUSB0 
Reader info: type UHFReader288M version 1.17
RF info: power 27 dB 
Frequency info: region US, 902.8-927.2 MHz

It is a bit weird. I bought the EU version, so I'm not sure if the output is correct.

I'm not a developer, but a sysadmin. I'm a bit stuck about what to do next. Thanks.

[fyksen]

I think the source of my problem was that Chafon sent me the US version by mistake. I'm having a hard time to set it to EU channel. I only have EU antennas and tags, so this is probably why nothing is working for me. Starting to think it is not possible to change the channel without updating firmware in a way. I contacted Chafon to return the US model and get a EU.

[fyksen]

Sorry for the spam. Just wanted to update you. I was not able to set the working frequency using your script. I connected my reader to a windows VM, and launched the demo .exe file Chafon provide. Was able to set the working frequency to EU, and save.

With setting:

class ReaderType(Enum):

    RRU9803M      = 0x03 # CF-RU5102 (desktop USB reader/writer, as specified)
    RRU9803M_1    = 0x08 # CF-RU5102 (desktop USB reader/writer, actual)
    UHFReader18   = 0x09
    UHFReader288M = 0x0c
    UHFReader86   = 0x0f # CF-MU903/CF-MU904 (as documented)
    UHFReader86_1 = 0x10 # CF-MU903/CF-MU904 (actual)
    RRU9883M      = 0x16 # CF-MU902
    UHFReader288MP = 0x20 # CF-MU804
    UHFReaderE710 = 0x75 # VF-E71F, CF-E710, CF-E714, CF-E718. Only confirmed working on CF-E714.

In the package it works great. Thanks!