QSerialport send binary data

[TMJJ001]

Dear all,

I'm setting up a communication between my PC and embedded system. My PC needs to send certain data to the embedded system.

Now when I send for example "START" with QSerialport it sends ASCII code. So there is a lot of traffic on the bus to say start to bus.

To reduce this (unnessecairy) traffic, I would like to send the raw data. As start signal I would for example send 00010001 and nothing more.

Is this possible? If yes how should I do this?
Below is the code I use at the moment.

#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"
#include <QtSerialPort/QSerialPort>
#include <QDebug>

QSerialPort *serial;
MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui(new Ui::MainWindow)

{
    ui->setupUi(this);
    QWidget::setWindowTitle("SCOT - TSP -- Terex Sensor Programmer");
    QWidget::setWindowIcon(QIcon(":/new/rsc/img/TSP_ICON.ico"));

    QPixmap logPix(":/new/rsc/img/Sarens.png");
    ui->SarLogo_Label->setPixmap(logPix);

    serial = new QSerialPort(this);
    serial->setPortName("com6");
    serial->setBaudRate(QSerialPort::Baud38400);
    serial->setDataBits(QSerialPort::Data8);
    serial->setParity(QSerialPort::NoParity);
    serial->setStopBits(QSerialPort::OneStop);
    serial->setFlowControl(QSerialPort::NoFlowControl);
    serial->open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);
    connect(serial,SIGNAL(readyRead()),this,SLOT(serialReceived()));
}
MainWindow::~MainWindow()
{
    delete ui;
    serial->close();
}


void MainWindow::on_pushButton_clicked()
{
    serial->write("START \n");
    qDebug()<<"START";
}

void MainWindow::serialReceived()
{
    QByteArray ba;
    qDebug()<<ba;
    ba=serial->readAll();
    ui->Terminal_textedit->appendPlainText(ba);

}

void MainWindow::on_actionConnect_triggered()
{

}

[JonB]

@TMJJ001 said in QSerialport send binary data:

qint64 QIODevice::write(const QByteArray &byteArray) (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qiodevice.html#write-2), for example, writes arbitrary binary bytes.

[kuzulis]

Is this possible? If yes how should I do this?

The '00010001' it is '0x11' in hexadecimal, so just write:

serial.write(QByteArray::fromHex("11"));

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