ESP3 (EnOcean Serial Protocol v3) is the communication protocol between an EnOcean radio module (TCM 310 / TCM 515) and a host gateway or PC over a UART link: packets begin with the sync byte 0x55, followed by a header, a data section and a CRC8.
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ESP3 frames every packet between the radio module and its host. The structure is: sync byte 0x55, then a header containing Data Length, Optional Length, Packet Type and a CRC8 on the header (CRC8H), then the data block (radio telegram plus optional metadata) and finally a CRC8 on the data (CRC8D). This framing is used by all EnOcean USB dongles (USB 300, USB 400, USB 500) and by KNX / EnOcean gateways. The full specification is published openly on enocean.com.
When debugging a flaky USB gateway, capture the raw serial stream and check that every frame starts with 0x55; a missing sync byte almost always points to a baud-rate or flow-control mismatch rather than a radio problem.
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