/* LoRaWAN Timeserver construct 7 byte timesync_answer from gateway timestamp and node's time_sync_req byte meaning 1 sequence number (taken from node's time_sync_req) 2 timezone in 15 minutes steps 3..6 current second (from epoch time 1970) 7 1/250ths fractions of current second */ function timecompare(a, b) { const timeA = a.time; const timeB = b.time; let comparison = 0; if (timeA > timeB) { comparison = 1; } else if (timeA < timeB) { comparison = -1; } return comparison; } let confidence = 2000; // max millisecond diff gateway time to server time // guess if we have received a valid time_sync_req command if (msg.payload.payload_raw.length != 1) return; var deviceMsg = { payload: msg.payload.dev_id }; var seqNo = msg.payload.payload_raw[0]; var seqNoMsg = { payload: seqNo }; var gateway_list = msg.payload.metadata.gateways; // filter all gateway timestamps that have milliseconds part (which we assume have a ".") var gateways = gateway_list.filter(function (element) { return (element.time.includes(".")); }); var gateway_time = gateways.map(gw => { return { time: new Date(gw.time), eui: gw.gtw_id, } }); var server_time = new Date(msg.payload.metadata.time); // validate all gateway timestamps against lorawan server_time (which is assumed to be recent) var gw_timestamps = gateway_time.filter(function (element) { return ((element.time > (server_time - confidence) && element.time <= server_time)); }); // if no timestamp left, we have no valid one and exit if (gw_timestamps.length === 0) { var notavailMsg = { payload: "n/a" }; var notimeMsg = { payload: 0xff }; var buf2 = Buffer.alloc(1); msg.payload = new Buffer(buf2.fill(0xff)); msg.port = 9; // Paxcounter TIMEPORT return [notavailMsg, notavailMsg, deviceMsg, seqNoMsg, msg];} // sort time array in ascending order to find most recent timestamp for time answer gw_timestamps.sort(timecompare); var timestamp = gw_timestamps[0].time; var eui = gw_timestamps[0].eui; var offset = server_time - timestamp; var seconds = Math.floor(timestamp/1000); var fractions = (timestamp % 1000) / 4; let buf = new ArrayBuffer(7); new DataView(buf).setUint8(0, seqNo); // Timezone (in 15min steps) var timezone = 8; // CET = UTC+2h new DataView(buf).setUint8(1, timezone); new DataView(buf).setUint32(2, seconds); new DataView(buf).setUint8(6, fractions); msg.payload = new Buffer(new Uint8Array(buf)); msg.port = 9; // Paxcounter TIMEPORT var euiMsg = { payload: eui }; var offsetMsg = { payload: offset }; return [euiMsg, offsetMsg, deviceMsg, seqNoMsg, msg];