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 3. unzip the software
 
-	unzip pyenergenie-master.zip
-	cd pyenergenie-master
-	cd assets/src
+```
+unzip pyenergenie-master.zip
+cd pyenergenie-master
+cd assets/src
+```
 
 4. run the monitor test program
 
-	sudo python monitor.py
+```
+sudo python monitor.py
+```
 
 After a few seconds, you should see some packet dumps appearing on the screen.
 The last few bytes will be 0x73 0x01 0x01 or 0x73 0x01 0x00 and these indicate