sending data to hobbitd?

I have scripts ready to send data to hobbitd using a raw socket on port 1984 and I have previously sent status messages to hobbitd (status HOST.TEST COLOR MESSAGE). I'm still trying to get the trending and graphing working. How do I format the message to look like the data is coming from the client side of hobbitd? I'm currently trying:

open a socket BBDISPLAY:1984 send '@' send my data that looks like output from hobbitclient-linux.sh flush socket close socket

Mike