Qt Serial Port - Unable to Read

shurjobanerjee

I'm trying to read a serial port with the Qt SerialPort library. I can read the data using HyperTerminal.

In Qt I used the following code to try and do the same thing. Qt says the the port has been opened correctly, but for some reason, the bytesAvailable from the serial port is always 0.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

serial.setPortName("COM20");

if (serial.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly))
qDebug() << "Opened port " << endl;
else
qDebug() << "Unable to open port" << endl;

serial.setDataBits(QSerialPort::Data8);

serial.setParity(QSerialPort::EvenParity);

serial.setBaudRate(QSerialPort::Baud115200);

qDebug() << "Is open?? " << serial.isOpen();

// Wait unit serial port data is ready
while (!serial.bytesAvailable())
{
//qDebug() << serial.bytesAvailable()<<endl;
continue;
}

QByteArray data = serial.read(100);

qDebug() << "This is the data -" << data << endl;

serial.close();
In comparison, MATLAB code with the same structure as the above code, successfully manages to read the serial port data

%Serial Port Grapher - Shurjo Banerjee

s = serial('COM20');
s.BaudRate = 460800;
s.Parity = 'even';

try
input('Ready to begin?');
catch
end

fopen(s);

fh = figure();
hold on;

t = 1;

while (s.BytesAvailable <= 0)
continue
end
a = fread(s, 1)

old_t = 1;
old_a = a;

while true

if (s.BytesAvailable > 0)
a = fread(s, 1)

    figure(fh)
    t = t + 1;
    plot([old_t t], [old_a a]);
    old_t = t;
    old_a = a;
end

end

fclose(s);

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

You can't translate the code from MatLab 's serial to QSerialPort like that. QSerialPort should be used asynchronously (there's currently a bug preventing the use of the synchronous API).

Please have a look at the examples to see how it's handled.