Bob Wyman for Congress (NY CD-10)

Of course our HVAC system needs a software update because the manufacturer found a bug after techs were fighting it for months. Of course.

Update: turns out our local contractor has been lying (not sure on purpose?), but I called the manufacturer and made my way to the developers responsible. They're still debugging. I let on that I was halfway technical and now they want me to collect Modbus traffic to help. GREAT

Yay, I've got working Modbus control now! Also I didn't have to do much work, given all the #golang packages already existing: https://godoc.org/?q=modbus  ... I just picked the top one and it mostly worked. And looks like I might be able to detect the bug condition and power cycle.

Yay: the manufacturer sent me their internal docs w/ all the register specs. Boo: the file (named "NewRS485Address-20170119-CX34UsedV2latest") is half Chinese, half English and sometimes the English docs are correct and sometimes Chinese is correct. Better than no docs, tho!