Re: Arduino to octave

[Giorgio De Nunzio]

Il 10/10/2016 13:00, Andreas Weber ha scritto:
> Hi Giorgio,
>
> Am 09.10.2016 um 17:57 schrieb address@hidden:
> > I've recently been working on data acquisition from an arduino by the
> > serial channel and the Instrument Control  package.
> > It was not so easy: it seemed that some data were missed from time to
> > time, but I've never understood why. I now perform some error checking and
> > sometimes I lower the baud rate.
> I've used serial communication between AVRs (for example ATMega32) and
> GNU Octave with baudrates of 500 kbaud without any problems. Do you use
> interrupt driven serial out on the AVR side? Is the output buffer big
> enough? For reading the data in GNU Octave I suggest reading bigger
> chunks at once (perhaps 500 Bytes) and then split it, put the rest back
> in the input buffer and draw then.
>
> -- Andy
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Hi Andy,
I am using an arduino and its serial library from C, so I don't know
exactly how data sending is organized at low level.
Anyway I'll soon begin experimenting again (taking your suggestions into
consideration), so as to understand where my mistake was. I'll ask on
the List, if necessary.
I find interesting the idea of type casting to use binary data: till now
I have always sent text messages, which is not necessarily practical.

Just one note: I realized that the buffer is not emptied when read
(arduino sends, octave reads: if I stop octave script and start it
again, data are reread).
Is this normal? Is it possible to forcefully empty the buffer (from the
pc side) so that only new readings are read from that point on? It was
just a rapid test I did, so perhaps I am missing something.
Thanks
Ciao
Giorgio


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