Zero Log Parser

**An attempt to rewrite the parser using Kaitai Struct **

This is a small decoder utility to parse Zero Motorcycle main bike board (MBB) and battery management system (BMS) logs.

• It is designed to emulate Zero Motorcycles' own official log parser, that turns the binary-encoded event log into a mostly-readable text file.
• If you send a log to Zero Customer Support, they should provide you with a text file in response. (Often, a phone call prompts them to process the log file)
• If you run this script, and the script does not parse some entries correctly, we can upgrade the log parser to handle them if we have a copy of Zero's official log. So try to provide us with examples like this to help the development of the parser.

Usage

Getting Logs

You can extract logs from the bike using the Zero mobile app:

1. Download the Zero mobile app.
2. Pair your motorcycle with it via bluetooth.
3. Once the pairing is working, select Support > Email bike logs.
4. Enter your email address into the To: line to send the logs to yourself rather than / in addition to Zero Motorcycles support.
5. Open the email and download the attachment.

Running

You'll need to install Python 3 somehow from https://www.python.org/downloads/

$ python3 zero_log_parser.py <logfile.bin> [-o output_file]

Docker

If you want to run using Docker, there's only two steps: build, then run.

Docker Build

docker build . -t "zero-log-parser"

To explain:

docker build

Build a new Docker image

.

Use a Dockerfile in the current directory ("/.")

-t "zero-log-parser"

Tag it as "zero-log-parser"

Docker Run

We will change directory to where the logs are, then run the tool against a log.

cd ~/zero-logs
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/root" zero-log-parser /root/VIN_BMS0_2019-04-20.bin -o /root/VIN_BMS0_2019-04-20.txt

To explain:

cd ~/zero-logs

Go to the directory where the logs are stored. Change this to the correct directory for you

docker run

Run a Docker image as a container

--rm

Don't keep the image when it exits

-v "$PWD:/root"

Mount the current working directory as a volume inside the container at /root

zero-log-parser

What Docker image to run

/root/VIN_BMS0_2019-04-20.bin

Name of the binary file. You can get this by doing an ls after the cd before this command. Make sure to add /root/ before it since the path in the container is different

-o /root/VIN_BMS0_2019-04-20.txt

Save the decoded log file as VIN_BMS0_2019-04-20.txt in /root, which will save it in the current working directory outside of the container

Development

Basic log documentation is at log_structure.md.

If you want to debug the script and contribute, it's helpful to be able to run the tests. These currently look at a suite of log files and just run the parser to look for errors.

Setup

$ python3 setup.py develop

Testing

$ python3 test.py <directory of log files>

Authors

Originally developed at https://github.com/KimBurgess/zero-log-parser

• Kim Burgess - Initial Work, Inactive - @KimBurgess
• Brian Rice - Maintainer - @BrianTRice
• Keith Thomas - Contributor - @keithxemi