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 ====== UPM Protocol ======
-The RF-Protocol used by the UPM-Devices uses OOK-modulation of the 433.92MHz carrier signal. The digital signal is encoded using an Biphase Differential Manchester encoding to code the actual bits. One message consists of 28 bits of data and is always repeated three times for redundancy. The temperature sensors sends a burst of three messages once every minute, and just uses "blind luck" not to send at the same time as another sensor if you have multiple sensors. In reality the sensor's clocks always has a small drift in time, so if you have four sensors they will drift relative to each other and eventually collide and "shadow" each other for a period of time. This "shadow"-period usually lasts a couple of hours depending on how fast the sensors drift.
+The RF-Protocol used by the UPM-Devices uses OOK-modulation of the 433.92MHz carrier signal. The digital signal is encoded using an Biphase Differential Manchester encoding to code the actual bits. One message consists of 28 bits of data and is always repeated three times for redundancy. The temperature sensors sends a burst of three messages once every minute, and just uses "blind luck" not to send at the same time as another sensor if you have multiple sensors. In reality the sensor's clocks always has a small drift in time, so if you have four sensors they will drift relative to each other and eventually two will collide and "shadow" each other for a period of time. This "shadow"-period usually lasts a couple of hours depending on how fast the sensors drift.
 The UPM receivers are quite smart when it comes to saving energy. When you start them they will switch on the receiver and scan for sensors for a couple of minutes. Once it has located the sensors (when they transmit), it will turn off the receiver and just turn it on when it expects the next transmission from one of the sensors and as soon as it has decoded a complete message it turns off the receiver again (usually after the first of the three repeats in a burst).