Bluetooth Focus Adjustment is Imprecise

Hello, I recently made a post about easily getting started with Bluetooth through a Linux-based system.
I shared how you can write the focus command in bluetoothctl (part of the bluez package), to for example sweep between a focus position of 0.9995 to 0.0000

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[bluetooth]# write "0x01 0x08 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x80 0x00 0x07 0xff 0x00 0x00"
or
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 7 255 0 0"
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 7 254 0 0"
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 7 253 0 0"
...
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 2 0 0"
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 1 0 0"
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 0"


But using my Olympus 25mm 1.8 M. Zuiko or my Panasonic 12mm 1.4 Summilux on the BMPCC4k, the focus intervals mapped roughly to

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[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 5 0 0" ->INF
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 4 0 0" ->INF
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 3 0 0" ->600mm
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 2 0 0" ->300mm
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 1 0 0" ->250mm
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 0" ->200mm


So I could not properly set the focus positions.
Perhaps I have the endianness wrong on the signed 5.11 fixed number?
I know for a fact that bluetooth can precisely control the focus on the camera, as evidenced by my phone app that by the way, I was happy to pay for (even though this stuff is open source doesn't mean we should be stingy).

If any of you has implemented focus by bluetooth (at least a dozen of you, for sure), please share your thoughts!

Hello all, I just figured out that in fact the bytes are LSB first, but the bits are not LSB first. So, out of a range of 0x0800 to 0x07ff to 0x0001 to 0x0000, you need to actually write 0x00 0x08 to represent 0x0800, 0xff 0x07 to represent 0x07ff, etc.
So, functioning code to set the focus position will follow the format of...

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[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 255 7 0 0"
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 254 7 0 0"
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 253 7 0 0"
...
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 2 0 0 0"
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 1 0 0 0"
[bluetooth]# write "1 8 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 0"


Enjoy focusing precisely!