Add Python server script for reverse engineering

tools/re-server.py

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+"""
+Simple socket server used to reverse engineer the messaging protocol the bundled software uses to send data to the
+LED sign.
+
+The server just dumps incoming messages in a hexdump-like format as well as an easy to read Python bytestring.
+"""
+
+
+import asyncio
+import string
+
+
+async def handle_client(reader, writer):
+    message = await reader.read(255)
+
+    hex_chars = [hex(j)[2:].zfill(2) for j in message]
+
+    ascii_chars = []
+    for j in message:
+        char = chr(j)
+        if char in (string.ascii_letters + string.digits + string.punctuation):
+            ascii_chars.append(char)
+        else:
+            ascii_chars.append(".")
+
+    print("Message received: ", end="")
+    print(" ".join(hex_chars), end=" | ")
+    print("".join(ascii_chars), end=" | ")
+    print("".join(repr(message)))
+
+    writer.close()
+
+
+async def run_server():
+    server = await asyncio.start_server(handle_client, '', 3000)
+    async with server:
+        await server.serve_forever()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(run_server())
+