Comment by sheepscreek
6 hours ago
There’s some specific terminology here, like the MAC address of the network device, which might have been virtual.
UART is a hardware circuit for communication, possibly a serial port. Were you trying to reverse engineer a consumer device or appliance?
This particular instance doesn’t seem terse, but I’m sure it has been on other occasions :)
It was saying it can't tie the calibration results to a device, because it doesn't know the MAC address (I never asked it to look at the MAC address, it way overengineered things).
It also couldn't see the UART communication and could only see the web API endpoint, hence the rest of the slop.