A way to stop reading COM1

[Riegg]

Is there a way to stop reading a com port after receiving a specific string?? I am working on Motorola iDEN base radios and need to issue commands, wait for the reply and then manipulate the data. The reply always ends with “EBRC>” (with out the “”), right now I have it doing a read for a period of time (user definable) but it seems to vary too much from radio to radio and computer to computer.

 

[tbshmkr]

Not familiar with Motorola iDEN
but try using FOREVER to prevent timeout.
This will also stop the need for the user-defined timeout.

proc main
;start read
;SCRIPT
waitfor "EBRC>" forever
;SCRIPT
;end read
endproc

Don't know why a "READ" would vary significantly from radio to radio or computer to computer.


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[Riegg]

the read time will very do to processor loading and call volume on the radio anywhere from 1 second to 10 seconds. I will try the waitfor but I can't remember why it did not work right now but there was a reason.