I found this description of the protocol on internet some time ago, can’t find it again, if someone knows please send me a link.

USB cable

HID Set Report request
CT 21 09 00 03 00 00 00 00

To read from the device listen to interrupt transfers from endpoint 82. There you’ll find 8 byte blobs roughly every 10 ms. There is two identified types (They are likely described in  the USB HID spec), identified by their first byte:

f0 - No data available, the rest of the bytes are 0
f1 - Here, have a character! Second byte is the character.

If you assemble all the contiguos characters, you will end up with a 14-character message as described below.

RS232 cable

The RS232 cable uses 2400 baud with 8 bit characters, no parity and 1 stop bit. To activate it, the RTS line needs to be cleared and the DTR line set.
 As the data packets all end with CRLF, you can use line-oriented reading from the port.

 SET_BAUD_RATE 2400
 CLR_RTS
 SET_DTR
 SET_LINE_CONTROL 8n1
 SET_CHAR EOF:0 ERR:0 BRK:0 EVT:0 XON:11 XOFF:13
 SET_HANDFLOW Shake:1 Replace:0 XonLimit:512 XoffLimit:1
 PURGE TXABORT RXABORT TXCLEAR RXCLEAR
 SET_QUEUE_SIZE InSize: 2048 OutSize: 2048
 SET_TIMEOUTS RI:1 RM:0 RC:1 WM:0 WC:0

Message format

 0: +/-
 1-4: Digits (but see below)
 5: Space
 6: Precision
 7-8: Flags
 9: Prefix and special flags
 10: Unit
 11: Relative measurement integer
 12-13: CRLF

The four digits are the measured value with the decimal point removed.
However, if the meter is overloading, the value “?0:?” is reported.
The precision is a single ASCII digit with the following meaning:

0: There is no decimal point
 4: There is one decimal digit
 1: There are three decimal digits
 2: There are two decimal digits
 The seventh and eighth bytes are a bit field. I have observed these bits:
 0x0001 Bar graph visibility
 0x0002 Data hold
 0x0004 Rel
 0x0008 AC
 0x0010 DC
 0x0020 Autorange
 0x0200 Nano prefix
 0x1000 Min
 0x2000 Max
 Byte 9 consists of two 4-bit fields, prefix and special flags.
 The prefix has the following meaning:
 0x00 No prefix (or nano prefix, as per above)
 0x10 Mega (M)
 0x20 Kilo (k)
 0x40 Milli (m)
 0x80 Micro (µ)
 The special flags are:
 0x00 Nothing special
 0x02 %
 0x04 Diode
 0x08 Buzzer
 The unit byte reads as follows:
 0x00 Percent
 0x04 Fahrad
 0x08 Hz
 0x20 Ohm
 0x40 Ampere
 0x80 Volt

Byte 11 contains a 7-bit signed integer corresponding to the measured value in 64ths of the current range.