Lazer Swarm Command Center 3.0 Beta 3 is now available. Download it now! Please test it out very thoroughly and let me know of any issues . 3.0 Beta 3 (2018-06-01): Fixed zone beacons not being sent in zone games. Fixed incorrect countdown length in enhanced games. Fixed possible freeze after clicki...

Mega tags is a feature of the Deluxe and LTAR taggers that lets you combine up to four tags into one shot. It is not supported by the LTX and so is just ignored by that tagger.

Lazer Swarm Command Center 2.1 is now available. Download it now! Let me know of any issues . 2.1 (2017-10-21): Fixed a possible crash when assigning names from the player list context menu. Fixed a possible crash when taggers are joining a game. Fixed issues with more than 8 players in solo games. ...

It can talk to the LTAR too. The current version has a text box at the bottom where you can type blocks in to send. It can also dump the RAM now in addition to all the variables. The firmware is in mask ROM so I don't think there's any way to permanently brick an LTAR through software. There are som...

Here's the source code:

https://github.com/astrospark/SmartDeviceDebugger

I've been working on a Windows program to talk to the LTAR. Here's what I've got so far. I plan on putting the code up on GitHub soon.

I've figured out how to generate the correct responses for the authentication method!

https://wiki.lazerswarm.com/wiki/Challe ... onse_Block

I'm making a lot of progress now. I'm filling in stuff on the wiki as I go.

https://wiki.lazerswarm.com/wiki/Smart_Device_Protocol

I've also found the authentication method. It's a 16-bit challenge/response. I haven't figured out how to generate the correct responses yet.

I'm thinking BType 0x50 is a negative acknowledgement. BData0 is the BType of the block that had an error and BData1 is the error flags. 0x01 is something like invalid argument and 0x04 is something like unexpected block. I get a lot of 0x04 errors when using the Left->Mic loopback to record the tag...

I got an iPhone and hacked up a cable so my PC can listen in on the communications. I've filled in a bit more information about the TAGGER-STATUS block on the wiki: https://wiki.lazerswarm.com/wiki/Tagger_Status_Block I think I've got the basics of BType 0x01 figured out. It's a more basic status bl...