Reading Data from Serial Port.

[mbatra]

Hello Everyone,

I need help regarding one solution. I have created an application and I am reading data from Serial Port. The data comes in pack of 8 bytes ( 5A 00 01 02 03 04 05 5F ). Start and End bytes fixed (5A and 5F). I am using the below code to read data:

if (_serialPort->open(QSerialPort::ReadOnly))
{
QObject::connect(_serialPort, &QSerialPort::readyRead, this, &SerialPort::dataReady);
}

    QByteArray receivedData;
    if (_serialPort->isOpen())
    {
        receivedData.append(_serialPort->readAll());
        emit dataReceived(receivedData.toHex(' '));
    }

Read the data and send it to another class. Application will be working fine till the data from serial port read is 8 bytes. When data is recieved less than or more than 8 bytes, the application crashes.

Data is coming in 8 bytes at rate of 40 ms. I want to read only 8 bytes of data at a time and buffer should not keep on filling with the data.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks..!!

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@mbatra said in Reading Data from Serial Port.:

Any help will be appreciated.

Use the readyRead() signal and read the data in the connected slot. Since a serial port is stream-based you have to fiddle out by yourself where / when the 8 bytes are available.

The forum search can also help here since this is asked many times..