serial = serialport ([path], [baudrate]) ¶serial = serialport ([path], [propname, propvalue]) ¶Open serial port interface.
path - the interface path of type String.
baudrate - the baudrate of interface.
propname,propvalue - property name/value pairs.
Known input properties:
Numeric baudrate value
Numeric timeout value in seconds or -1 to wait forever
number of stopbits to use
Parity setting ’none’, ’even’, ’odd’
Number of bits to a byte (5 to 8)
Number of bits to a byte ’none’, ’hardware’, ’software’
The serialport() shall return an instance of octave_serialport class as the result serial.
The serial object has the following public properties:
name assigned to the object
instrument type ’serial’ (readonly)
OS specific port name (readonly)
status of the object ’open’ or ’closed’ (readonly)
timeout value used for waiting for data
number of bytes currently available to read (readonly)
number of bytes written (readonly)
number of stopbits to use
Parity setting ’none’, ’even’, ’odd’
Number of bits to a byte (5 to 8)
Baudrate setting
Number of bits to a byte ’none’, ’hardware’, ’software’
current state of pins (readonly)
user defined data
Package: instrument-control