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Description

The serial tools allow AM to interact with serial devices connected to the computer.

Settings

Port

Baudrate

DataSize

Parity

StopBits

DTR/SDSR

Specifies the DTR flow control.

RTS/CTS

Turns the RTS flow control on and off.

XON/XOFF

Specifies if XON/XOFF flow control is used during transmission. If this member is TRUE, transmission stops when the XoffChar character is received and starts again when the XonChar character is received. fInX Specifies if XON/XOFF flow control is used during reception. If this member is TRUE, the XoffChar character is sent when the input buffer comes within XoffLim bytes of being full, and the XonChar character is sent when the input buffer comes within XonLim bytes of being empty.

Monitor

Set up a thread and fire events when there is data on the port

Wait Time Between Characters

after receiving some character the wait time in msec to see if there are any more character in the buffer. Zero does not wait.

NOTE Internally this time only only applies when reading strings and not reading BYTES

Internally the max timeout is 1 sec.

State

Reflects whether there is a connection

Initialize/Shutdown

Port Wiring

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