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Sniffing the Buderus Logamatic 4000 bus

Avid readers of this blog might know that I already had a couple of projects around the heating in our house. The latest addition to these projects is a mechanism to listen in on the Buderus's bus to gather and log information such as outside temperature, target temperatures in the heating circuits, turn-on and turn-off temperatures of the burner, etc. My intention with this information is to improve heating efficiency (as measured in gas used) and also to get a more in-depth understanding of the engineering aspects of this system (mechanical & electronic engineering and computer science). Previously I've installed DS18B20 sensors all around, monitoring the system from the "outside", by sniffing the bus, I get a peek into the inside of the system. When I started, I've found the site https://www.holzleitner.com/el/buderus-monitor/index-en.html which contained a reverse-engineered description of how the bus system of Buderus works. Then I've stumbled into t