Serial Command to Get Light Level Value

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    Hi I have been looking throught he serial user guides to find information on how to retrive the ambinet light level.
    But i cant find any information,
    What i am trying to do is to read the light level from two sensors at address 17 and 98. We are using a crestron AV2 processor in the AV system in the conference room and the client wants to incorparte these sensors in his existing system.
    Please do you have any examples i can look at to
    1. Send a serail command to ask the unit for its level
    2. What the string looks like and where the light level value would be.
    Many thanks
     
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    If your sensors are Multisensors you can configure them to broadcast their ambient light level at regular intervals, removing the need to send serial strings at all.
     
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    the sensor we are using are E5031PE. but if we have all the information available for the sensor, than we can decide the best way forward. The client may want to change the refresh rate. so the simple way is to enable them to select via one of his touchscreens.
    Thanks anyway.
     
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    Now very good i have found the coding to request the ambient light level from the sensor. Now could some one tell me the required calculations.
    Example of returned values.

    645Lux = 82 99 A9 3C
    2573Lux = 82 99 F1 F4
    696Lux = 82 99 AD 38
    2165 Lux = 82 99 E8 FD
     
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    You need to share how you're generating that message before we can explain how to decode it. Otherwise we're just guessing.
     
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    The serial command we are sending is \0611002A9901 where 11 is the unit address (Hex) for if the unit is 17 then the hex unit number is 11.
     
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