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