I’m using the brping python library to communicate with my ping 360 sonar, what formula should I use to calculate range from the control message payload and also how could I set range or how should I configure the message params to set a different range

Range calculation on the ping 360

EliotBR (Eliot) April 6, 2026, 10:12am 2

Hi @issac5693, welcome to the forum

I’d suggest reading through this post, and following up if you still have questions afterwards

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