destogod/re/parse.py
type-two 07977624ae DestoGod: replacement for the TP5 bus destination sign software
TP5 is a 2012 Windows application supplied with the Guangzhou-Tongda LED
destination signs fitted to Yutong buses. It has no preview, so building a
destination list is guess-and-check, and it only runs on Windows.

The bus never talks to TP5 — the sign controller reads a .td5 file off an SD
card, and that is the whole interface. So this replaces the software without
touching any hardware or protocol: it just has to write byte-correct .td5.

Formats reverse-engineered from the sample files and TP5(En).exe, then verified
byte-for-byte:

  .td5   the file the bus reads. Fixed-layout binary; each destination block
         carries a CRC-16/ARC over block[3..len] and a rand() block id, which
         together looked like one 4-byte field because RAND_MAX is 0x7fff.
  .tp5   the editable project. Line-based text, UTF-16BE hex strings.
  .font  the sign's own bitmap fonts, each glyph row XORed with its char code.

The app is one self-contained HTML file: live LED preview at the real sign size
with real scrolling, spreadsheet/CSV import, multi-page destinations, undoable
delete, and export to both .td5 and .tp5.

Verified:
  - rebuilds a real 46,080-byte TP5 export byte-for-byte with a recomputed CRC
  - all 36 stored CRCs verify against the implementation
  - driven through its own UI, re-exporting the real file differs in 7 bytes,
    all of them the export timestamp
  - running on a real bus: signs and driver's controller both correct

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 13:06:25 +10:00

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import struct, sys
PATH = "/Users/jing/Documents/yutong/test files/EXPRESS 1.td5"
def load():
return open(PATH, 'rb').read()
def records(d=None):
if d is None: d = load()
out = []
off = 0x200
ptrs = []
while True:
p = struct.unpack_from('<I', d, off)[0]
off += 4
if p == 0xffffffff: break
ptrs.append(p)
for p in ptrs:
name = d[p:p+0x10].decode('latin1').rstrip()
name2 = d[p+0x10:p+0x20].decode('latin1').rstrip()
blkoff, blklen = struct.unpack_from('<II', d, p+0x30)
blk = d[blkoff:blkoff+blklen]
field = struct.unpack_from('<I', blk, 1)[0]
out.append(dict(ptr=p, name=name, name2=name2, blkoff=blkoff, blklen=blklen, blk=blk, field=field))
return out
if __name__ == '__main__':
d = load()
rs = records(d)
print(len(rs), 'records')
for r in rs:
print("%-18s ptr=%06x blkoff=%06x blklen=%04x field=%08x" % (
r['name'], r['ptr'], r['blkoff'], r['blklen'], r['field']))