Re: Streaming Serial Octave

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:19 PM, inertialwave <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have encountered numerous serial com workarounds here but native
> Octave3.6.4 seems very close on its own and is already promising to be as
> solid an practical as Python at least up to 460.8kbaud tested so far.
>
> Some motivation, an important problem case with fopen defined and a
> requested answer/solution:
>
> Octave would be a great tool for rapid high level embedded application
> development. Once a streaming algorithm is successfully developed in Octave
> using real time streaming serial data from the device/sensor through Octave
> then it would be much easier to partition and complete any embedded code
> needed on the device side...it may even be as good or better than Matlab.
> Modern PC's and serial port buffering could support a LOT of
> streaming/real-time development.
>
> ..but...I need your help with this one last issue of opening a "Standard
> Serial over Bluetooth link(COM24)" device. I was able to get all wired
> serial ports to work but many embedded devices use Bluetooth which creates
> special ("virtual") com ports to interface with the radio driver. Here is an
> example:
>
>> [fid,msg]=fopen('\\.\COM24','r+')
>> fid=-1
>> msg= Permission denied
>
> Why??? Is there a workaround or a patch?
>
> If needed, I found  a possible address (ECFE7E116058) for the actual target
> serial device using serial.tools.list_ports.comports() but couldn't see how
> to use it.
>> [fid,msg]=fopen('ECFE7E116058','r+')
>> fid=-1
>> msg=  No such file or directory
>
> On regular wired serial devices or USB connected devices I have had great
> success with streaming device (sensor in this case) data at 460.8kbaud
> straight into Octave 3.6.4 and keeping up with it in real time with a fairly
> sophisticated algorithm !!  No need for PySerial batch collection first or
> serialport/sockets packages or Oct2py complexities.
>
> The trick I had to learn was to use the "full" comport name('\\.\COMxx') and
> NOT ('\\\\.\\COMxx') or fopen wouldn't work above COM4. Embedded development
> results in many, many comports.
>
>
>
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Have you tried the instrument-control package?
http://octave.sourceforge.net/instrument-control/overview.html