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Serial Communication

Communication over a RS-232 Serial Port with Scilab on Windows and Linux

(35042 downloads for this version - 100740 downloads for all versions)

Details

Version

0.5

Authors

Enrico Segre

Aditya Sengupta

Owner Organization

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Maintainers

Aditya Sengupta

Samuel Gougeon

Samuel GOUGEON

Categories

Signal Processing

Instruments Control

Data Handling

Real-Time

Contributed Scilab builds

Website

http://github.com/sengupta/Scilab-Serial

License

GPL (3.0)

Creation Date

May 30, 2019

Source created on

Scilab 6.0.x

Binaries available on

Scilab 5.5.x:

Windows 64-bit

Windows 32-bit

Linux 64-bit

Linux 32-bit

macOS

Scilab 6.0.x:

Windows 64-bit

Windows 32-bit

Linux 64-bit

Linux 32-bit

macOS

Scilab 6.1.x:

Windows 64-bit

Windows 32-bit

Linux 64-bit

Linux 32-bit

macOS

Install command

--> atomsInstall("serial")

Report a bug

GitLab's issues for serial

Description

            Serial Communication Toolbox for Scilab
=======================================

This toolbox enables the use of Serial Communication in Scilab and in Scicoslab
(http://www.scicoslab.org).
It can run in Scilab for Windows and Linux, but not for MacOS.

FUNCTIONS
---------
 * openserial  — open serial port
 * readserial  — read characters from serial port
 * writeserial — write to the serial port
 * serialstatus — get status of the serial port
 * closeserial — close the serial port

SYNTAXES
--------
h = openserial(p, smode, translation, handshake, xchar, blocking, timeout)
buf = readserial(h [,n])
err = writeserial(h, buf)
[queue, status] = serialstatus(h)
err = closeserial(h)


Release Notes: 
==============
0.5  : 30/5/2019: ports # > 9 now supported.
0.4.2: 13/3/2017: Toolbox ported to Scilab 6.0
0.4.1: 2/10/2012: Toolbox ported to Scilab 5.5
0.4  : 15/4/2012: Toolbox ported to Scilab 5.4
0.3  : 14/5/2011: Initial release on ATOMS by Aditya Sengupta
       serial is now compatible with Scilab 5.x
0.2.x: 12/1/2009: Final Release by Enrico Segre
0.2  : corrected version after http://bugzilla.scilab.org/3829 : 
       readserial/writeserial were confused by strings containing
       nonprintable ascii characters

REMARKS
-------
This toolbox is a port of the __Portable Serial Toolbox__ for Scilab originally
written by Enrico Segre (http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/fesegre)
and has been ported to Scilab 5.x and released with his kind permission. It is
licensed, at his request, under the GPLv3. 

Enrico does not wish to provide support for this toolbox anymore. Therefore, for
any support related queries or otherwise, please raise an issue on the Github
project page (https://github.com/sengupta/Scilab-Serial).
You can reach me at [this address](mailto:aditya@sengupta.me), but I would
prefer you raise an issue on Github for problems with the toolbox. 

The implementation via TCL wrappers is certainly suboptimal, but shouldn't
be such a penalty, given the low bandwidth and the intrinsic asynchronous mode
of serial communication. And mainly, it relieves the developer from supporting
many platforms at once.

Files (5)

[2.86 kB]

README.md

Miscellaneous file

CHANGES 0.4.2 => 0.5   (S. Gougeon)
--------------------
 * COM #>9 are now accepted
 * eval => evstr (Scilab 6.1)
 * builder.sce :
   - now embedded as a function
   - now complies with Scilab 6
 * Improvements:
  - loader.sce: warning message added when trying to load on MacOS.
  - string(n) => msprintf("%d\n",n)
  - error messages localized
 * Help:
  - See also: short descriptions were not displayed
  - Encoding ISO-8859-1 => UTF-8

Upload date : 2019-05-30 20:01:47
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serial_0.5-src.zip

Source code archive

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serial_0.5_55-bin.zip

OS-independent binary for Scilab 5.5.x

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serial_0.5_60-bin.zip

OS-independent binary for Scilab 6.0.x

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serial_0.5_61-bin.zip

OS-independent binary for Scilab 6.1.x

Upload date : 2020-05-16 13:55:33
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Comments (2) ↑ Leave a comment

Comment from Le Cabey -- May 30, 2020, 04:58:53 AM

I had issues when reading/writing data containing null characters.
After I modified the readserial.sci and writeserial.sci the serial toolbox works 
perfectly.

Replace the functions found in the above files in the directory "scilab-
6.1.0\contrib\serial\0.5\macros" with the modified versions below.

The buildmacros.sce script located in the same directory must be executed to update 
the readserial.bin and writeserial.bin.

[readserial.sci]

function buf = readserial(h, n)
    // 12/1/2009: corrected version after report of bug 3829  
    if ~exists("n","local") then
        N = serialstatus(h);
        n = N(1)
    end
  /* //original code start*
    TCL_EvalStr("binary scan [read " + h + " " +
msprintf("%d\n", n) + "] cu* 
ttybuf")
    buf = ascii(evstr(TCL_GetVar("ttybuf")));
    // original code end
  */

   //modified code start
    TCL_EvalStr("binary scan [read " + h + " " +
msprintf("%u\n", n) + "] cu* 
ttybuf")    
    buf = evstr(TCL_GetVar("ttybuf"));
  //modified code start
endfunction


[writeserial.sci]

function result = writeserial(h,buf)
    //  12/1/2009: corrected version after report of bug 3829  
    if ~exists("buf","local") then 
        TCL_EvalStr("set writeresult [catch {flush " + h + "}]")
    else
   /* //original code start*
       TCL_EvalStr("set writeresult [catch {puts -nonewline "+h+..
                    " [binary format c* {" + msprintf("
%d",ascii(buf(:))') + ..
                    "}]; flush " + h + "}]")
     //original code end
   */
   
    // modified code start   
      tempstr = msprintf(" %u", buf(:));
      TCL_EvalStr("set writeresult [catch {puts -nonewline "+h+..
                  " [binary format c* {" + tempstr + ..
                  "}]; flush " + h + "}]")
      //modified code end
    end
    result = -evstr(TCL_GetVar("writeresult"));
endfunction

Cheers

Le

Comment from Philipp Mittendorfer -- February 21, 2024, 04:00:08 PM

Serial Toolbox must be patched to allow byte transmissions above ascii 127
For example to do this "writeserialb(h,[132 44 255])"
Tested on Windows and Scilab 6.0.2 and 6.1.1

function buf = readserialb(h, n)
    // 12/1/2009: corrected version after report of bug 3829  
    if ~exists("n","local") then
        N = serialstatus(h);
        n = N(1)
    end
    TCL_EvalStr("binary scan [read " + h + " " +
msprintf("%d\n", n) + "] cu* ttybuf")
    buf = evstr(TCL_GetVar("ttybuf"));
endfunction

function result = writeserialb(h,buf)
    //  12/1/2009: corrected version after report of bug 3829  
    if ~exists("buf","local") then 
        TCL_EvalStr("set writeresult [catch {flush " + h + "}]")
    else
        TCL_EvalStr("set writeresult [catch {puts -nonewline "+h+..
        " [binary format c* {" + msprintf(" %d",buf(:)) + ..
        "}]; flush " + h + "}]")
    end
    result = -evstr(TCL_GetVar("writeresult"));
endfunction