Still deep in the process of getting a fully functional SEL protocol binding suite in Python, but, hey! At least I can write a little update on what's been going on!

(if you haven't read my article on what selprotopy is, take a look here)

In the past month of so, I've been able to really "whack out" some reasonable functionality. In fact, I've been able to poll an SEL-351 for both digital and analog data. For those of you who are a little familiar with SEL protocol, that means that I've been able to create a parser for the relay definition block, and the various fast-meter blocks in addition to the DNA definition. To boot, I've even tested (albeit breifly) on an SEL-751 and saw pretty promissing results.

That's all pretty good, but the eventual goal (well, my eventual goal) is to be able to poll regularly and send commands/controls as needed. I'd also like to be able to read CEV reports (more on that in the future) and perhaps the relay's SER (Sequential Event Recorder). So, is any of the control functionality working yet? Not really...

I've gotten to the point where the commands should be configured and sent correctly to the relay, but no dice.

Somewhere along the lines, I've clearly "bugged" something up. So now, it's really just a matter of doing some additional debugging. Hmm... will need to get started on that. Trouble is, I've got lots of other fun projects to work on too!!!