As someone who works on a sensor platform that connects to a seriously arbitrary list of weird things out in the real world to pull data from them, some of which are so poorly documented the only way to work out what baud they are over UART is by just brute forcing it til it looks right: yeah it's very similar. And I need to go fight with this flow-meter now (which is Modbus, but with some of the weirdest data type encodings across registers I've ever seen), wish me luck :')

Godspeed, intrepid hero. Thank you for your service.