packages/hal/src/validators/apex/__tests__/apex-rs232.test.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import {
   parseStatus,
   parseResponse,
 } from '../apex-rs232.js'
-import { denomForChannel } from '../denominations.js'
 
 // Cassette-present bit; OR it into event bytes so parseStatus doesn't short to
 // 'stackerOpen'.
@@ -21,27 +20,6 @@ describe('Apex RS-232 protocol', () => {
     })
   })
 
-  describe('computeChecksum spans the frame, not a fixed range', () => {
-    it('matches the two reset frames the spec spells out literally', () => {
-      // Rev G gives these verbatim, checksum included, so they are the only
-      // ground truth available for the XOR range without hardware.
-      const a = Buffer.from([0x02, 0x08, 0x61, 0x7f, 0x7f, 0x7f, 0x03, 0x16])
-      const b = Buffer.from([0x02, 0x08, 0x60, 0x7f, 0x7f, 0x7f, 0x03, 0x17])
-      expect(computeChecksum(a)).toBe(0x16)
-      expect(computeChecksum(b)).toBe(0x17)
-    })
-
-    it('covers the six data bytes of an 11-byte reply', () => {
-      // The reply is longer than the host frame. A checksum hardcoded to the
-      // host range silently mis-validates every reply the acceptor sends.
-      const reply = [0x02, 0x0b, 0x20, 0x01, 0x10, 0x00, 0x00, 0x12, 0x34, 0x03, 0x00]
-      let want = 0
-      for (let i = 1; i <= 8; i++) want ^= reply[i] as number
-      reply[10] = want
-      expect(computeChecksum(Buffer.from(reply))).toBe(want)
-    })
-  })
-
   describe('buildFrame', () => {
     it('lays out the 8-byte poll frame with the ACK bit and checksum', () => {
       const f = buildFrame(0, 0x7f, 0x00)
@@ -54,14 +32,6 @@ describe('Apex RS-232 protocol', () => {
       expect(f[7]).toBe(0x66)
     })
 
-    it('carries escrow, stack and return in the command byte', () => {
-      // Rev G BYTE 1: bit 4 escrow enable, bit 5 stack, bit 6 return. Escrow
-      // is an enable held across polls, so it rides alongside the action bit.
-      expect(buildFrame(0, 0x7f, 0x10)[4]).toBe(0x10)
-      expect(buildFrame(0, 0x7f, 0x30)[4]).toBe(0x30)
-      expect(buildFrame(0, 0x7f, 0x50)[4]).toBe(0x50)
-    })
-
     it('sets the stack command bit (0x20) in the command byte', () => {
       const f = buildFrame(0, 0x7f, 0x20)
       expect(f[4]).toBe(0x20)
@@ -112,14 +82,11 @@ describe('Apex RS-232 protocol', () => {
   })
 
   describe('parseResponse', () => {
-    // Resolve through the real module, not a hand-copied array. The previous
+    const usd = [1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100]
-    // local copy duplicated the shipping table's off-by-one and so asserted
+    const resolve = (ch: number) => usd[ch - 1] ?? null
-    // the bug instead of catching it.
-    const resolve = (ch: number) => denomForChannel('USD', ch)
 
     it('resolves the escrowed note denomination from the credit channel', () => {
-      // state=escrowed, event=present, credit=channel 4. Per spec Rev G the
+      // state=escrowed, event=present, credit=channel 4 ($20)
-      // USD channel order is $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $50 $100, so channel 4 is $10.
       const frame = Buffer.from([
         0x02,
         0x0b,
@@ -135,7 +102,7 @@ describe('Apex RS-232 protocol', () => {
       ])
       const r = parseResponse(frame, resolve)
       expect(r.status).toBe('billsRead')
-      expect(r.bill?.denomination).toBe(10)
+      expect(r.bill?.denomination).toBe(20)
     })
 
     it('returns no bill when no channel is credited', () => {
@@ -157,9 +124,8 @@ describe('Apex RS-232 protocol', () => {
       expect(r.bill).toBeUndefined()
     })
 
-    it('maps the top channel to the largest note', () => {
+    it('yields a null denomination for an unmapped channel', () => {
-      // Channel 7 is $100. It read as unmapped while the table omitted $2,
+      // channel 7 not present in the 6-entry USD table
-      // which is exactly the shift this test now pins down.
       const frame = Buffer.from([
         0x02,
         0x0b,
@@ -174,25 +140,7 @@ describe('Apex RS-232 protocol', () => {
         0x00,
       ])
       const r = parseResponse(frame, resolve)
-      expect(r.bill?.denomination).toBe(100)
+      expect(r.bill?.denomination).toBeNull()
-    })
-
-    it('pins the whole USD channel order from the spec', () => {
-      // Rev G, BYTE 2 bits 3-5: 001=$1 010=$2 011=$5 100=$10 101=$20
-      // 110=$50 111=$100. A note credited at the wrong value is silent and
-      // costs real money, so the full mapping is asserted rather than sampled.
-      expect([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7].map((ch) => denomForChannel('USD', ch))).toEqual([
-        1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100,
-      ])
-    })
-
-    it('has no denomination for channel 0, which means no note', () => {
-      expect(denomForChannel('USD', 0)).toBeNull()
-    })
-
-    it('has no denomination when the currency is unknown', () => {
-      expect(denomForChannel(null, 3)).toBeNull()
-      expect(denomForChannel('ZZZ', 3)).toBeNull()
     })
   })
 })

packages/hal/src/validators/apex/apex-rs232.ts

@@ -6,27 +6,23 @@
  *
  * Implemented from Pyramid's PUBLIC protocol facts only — the wire format,
  * bit masks and serial parameters documented in Pyramid's "RS-232 Serial
- * Interface Specification", document RS_232, Rev G 12/03/14. No third-party
+ * Interface Specification" (https://pyramidacceptors.com/pdf/RS_232.pdf) and
- * (or lamassu-machine) source is copied; the byte layout below is a functional
+ * mirrored by their published integrator samples. No third-party (or
+ * lamassu-machine) source is copied; the byte layout below is a functional
  * spec, re-expressed for bitSpire under AGPL.
  *
- * The interface is Mars/MEI GL5-compatible, which is why it looks so much like
- * the EBDS driver next door. The acceptor is a pure slave: it answers polls and
- * never speaks first. Polls must not fall more than 5s apart or the acceptor
- * may dump an escrowed note and stop accepting until the host resumes.
- *
  * Frame (host → acceptor), fixed 8 bytes:
  *   [0] STX   0x02
  *   [1] LEN   0x08
- *   [2] CTRL  msg type 1 (master) in bits 4-6, ack in bit 0 (toggles every message)
+ *   [2] CTRL  0x10 | ack        (ack toggles 0↔1 every message)
- *   [3] ENA   BYTE 0 — per-note enable bits: bit 0 = note 1 … bit 6 = note 7
+ *   [3] ENA   denomination enable bitmask (0x7F = all, 0x00 = none)
- *   [4] CMD   BYTE 1 — bit 4 escrow enable, bit 5 stack, bit 6 return
+ *   [4] CMD   0x00 base; | 0x20 stacks the escrowed note
- *   [5] RSVD  BYTE 2 — reserved, 0x00
+ *   [5] RSVD  0x00
  *   [6] ETX   0x03
- *   [7] CHK   XOR of all bytes except STX, ETX and itself
+ *   [7] CHK   XOR of bytes [1..5]
  *
- * Frame (acceptor → host), 11 bytes — STX, LEN, CTRL, six data bytes, ETX,
+ * Frame (acceptor → host), length-prefixed like the host frame; the fields
- * CHK. The fields this driver consumes:
+ * this driver consumes:
  *   [3] STATE bits  1=idling 2=accepting 4=escrowed 8=stacking
  *                   16=stacked 32=returning 64=returned
  *   [4] EVENT bits  0x01=cheated 0x02=rejected 0x04=jammed
@@ -43,11 +39,8 @@ const STX = 0x02
 const ETX = 0x03
 const HOST_FRAME_LEN = 0x08
 
-// Host command byte (frame[4]) — spec Rev G, "Data Fields for Messages Sent
+// Host command byte (frame[4])
-// By the Master", BYTE 1.
+const CMD_STACK = 0x20
-const CMD_ESCROW = 0x10 // bit 4: set to 1 to ENABLE escrow mode
-const CMD_STACK = 0x20 // bit 5: stack the escrowed note
-const CMD_RETURN = 0x40 // bit 6: return the escrowed note
 
 // Response STATE byte (frame[3]) bit masks
 const STATE_IDLING = 0x01
@@ -97,18 +90,10 @@ export interface ApexRs232Config {
 // Pure functions — checksum, frame building, response parsing
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-/**
+/** XOR checksum over bytes [1..5] (LEN through RSVD), matching the host frame. */
- * XOR checksum over every byte except STX, ETX and the checksum itself — spec
+export function computeChecksum(frame: number[] | Buffer): number {
- * Rev G: "calculated on all bytes (except: STX, ETX and the checksum byte
- * itself)". For the 8-byte host frame that is bytes 1..5; for the 11-byte
- * reply it is bytes 1..8, which is why this is derived from the length rather
- * than hardcoded. Confirmed against the two reset frames the spec spells out
- * literally (02 08 61 7f 7f 7f 03 16 and 02 08 60 7f 7f 7f 03 17).
- */
-export function computeChecksum(frame: number[] | Buffer, length?: number): number {
-  const n = length ?? frame.length
   let cs = 0x00
-  for (let i = 1; i <= n - 3; i++) cs ^= frame[i] ?? 0
+  for (let i = 1; i <= 5; i++) cs ^= frame[i] ?? 0
   return cs
 }
 
@@ -293,25 +278,18 @@ export class ApexRs232 extends EventEmitter {
 
   /** Send one poll, carrying the current mask + latched escrow action. */
   poll(): void {
-    // Escrow is asserted on EVERY poll. It is an enable bit, not a one-shot:
+    // 'return' is expressed by disabling all channels while a note is escrowed,
-    // with it clear the acceptor never stops at escrow, so the host is never
+    // which makes the acceptor hand the note back (Apex has no distinct return
-    // offered the stack/return decision and notes are banked before anything
+    // opcode). 'stack' asserts CMD_STACK. Both are re-asserted until the device
-    // has validated them. This driver's whole FSM is built around that
+    // leaves escrow. NOTE: verify the return-by-disable behaviour on the 7600
-    // decision point.
+    // during bench bring-up; some firmware returns only on escrow timeout.
-    //
+    let enableByte = this.enabledMask
-    // Stack and return are the spec's own bits. An earlier version expressed
+    let cmdByte = 0x00
-    // return by zeroing the enable mask, on the assumption that the Apex had
+    if (this.pendingAction === 'stack') cmdByte = CMD_STACK
-    // no return opcode; it has one, and disabling channels mid-escrow is not
+    else if (this.pendingAction === 'return') enableByte = 0x00
-    // what it means.
-    //
-    // Both are re-asserted until the device leaves escrow, so a single dropped
-    // frame cannot strand a note.
-    let cmdByte = CMD_ESCROW
-    if (this.pendingAction === 'stack') cmdByte |= CMD_STACK
-    else if (this.pendingAction === 'return') cmdByte |= CMD_RETURN
 
     this.ack ^= 0x01
-    this.serial?.write(buildFrame(this.ack, this.enabledMask, cmdByte))
+    this.serial?.write(buildFrame(this.ack, enableByte, cmdByte))
   }
 
   stack(): void {
@@ -353,20 +331,13 @@ export class ApexRs232 extends EventEmitter {
       this.poll()
       return
     }
-    // The XOR range is now confirmed from the spec, so a mismatch is a hard
+    // Checksum is validated leniently: a mismatch is logged once but the frame
-    // drop rather than the previous parse-anyway. A corrupted frame carries a
+    // is still parsed. Pyramid's published host samples don't verify the reply
-    // denomination field, and crediting a note from a frame we know is damaged
+    // checksum, and the exact XOR range for the *reply* isn't confirmable from
-    // is the one outcome worth refusing outright. The raw bytes are logged so
+    // the (scanned) spec — so we don't want a wrong assumption to blackhole
-    // a systematic framing error is still diagnosable rather than silent.
+    // every otherwise-valid frame. Tighten to a hard drop once verified on hw.
-    const want = computeChecksum(frame, len)
+    if (frame[len - 1] !== computeChecksum(frame)) {
-    if (frame[len - 1] !== want) {
+      console.warn('[APEX] reply checksum mismatch (parsing anyway pending hw verification)')
-      console.warn(
-        `[APEX] reply checksum mismatch: got ${frame[len - 1]?.toString(16)} ` +
-          `want ${want.toString(16)} — frame dropped: ${frame.toString('hex')}`
-      )
-      this.emit('badFrame')
-      this.poll()
-      return
     }
 
     const result = parseResponse(frame, this.denomForChannel)

packages/hal/src/validators/apex/denominations.ts

@@ -1,29 +1,19 @@
 /**
  * Pyramid Apex Denomination Tables
  *
- * Indexed by (credit channel - 1). The channel is NOT an index into "the notes
+ * The Apex RS-232 reply reports a 1-based CREDIT CHANNEL (1..7), not a value —
- * this unit happens to have enabled" — it is a fixed protocol constant.
+ * the channel→value mapping is fixed by the bill dataset programmed into the
- * Pyramid's RS-232 spec (Rev G, "Data Fields for Messages sent by the Slave",
+ * acceptor's firmware for its country. The arrays below are ascending value
- * BYTE 2 bits 3-5) fixes the USD mapping:
+ * lists indexed by (channel - 1); they MUST match the dataset flashed on your
+ * specific Apex 7600, or a credited note will be booked at the wrong value.
+ * Verify against the unit's configuration card during bring-up.
  *
- *   001 = $1    010 = $2    011 = $5    100 = $10
+ * Defaults follow Pyramid's standard datasets (US = $1/$5/$10/$20/$50/$100;
- *   101 = $20   110 = $50   111 = $100
+ * $2 channel omitted as it's rarely enabled).
- *
- * $2 occupies channel 2 whether or not the unit accepts $2 notes. An earlier
- * version of this table omitted it as "rarely enabled", which shifted every
- * larger note down one slot: a $5 credited as $10, a $20 as $50, a $50 as
- * $100, and a $100 as nothing at all. Never drop an unused channel from these
- * arrays — pad it instead.
- *
- * For non-USD the spec says only "Foreign currencies are in sequential order
- * as note 1-7", so channel N is the Nth note type of whatever dataset is
- * flashed on the unit. The orderings below are the conventional ascending sets
- * and are UNVERIFIED against a real configuration card. Check the card before
- * a machine takes money in any of them.
  */
 
 export const denominations: Record<string, number[]> = {
-  USD: [1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100],
+  USD: [1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100],
   EUR: [5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500],
   GBP: [5, 10, 20, 50],
   CAD: [5, 10, 20, 50, 100],