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Writes text to the serial port.
Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
SerialPort | 3.0 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ✅ Yes, on macOS and Windows | ❌ No |
Parameter | Description | Example | Flags |
---|---|---|---|
PortReference | The reference number of the port. You get this number from SerialPort.Open when you open the port. | $port | |
Text | The text to send. | "Hello World" | |
Encoding | The text encoding for text parameter. Default is native. Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ. |
"UTF8" | Optional |
Returns the number of bytes written or an error message.
Write something:
MBS( "SerialPort.Write"; $port; "Hello World" )
Write something with DOS text encoding:
MBS( "SerialPort.Write"; $port; "Umlauts: äöü"; "DOS" )
Send set zero command to scale for MT-SICS (METTLER TOLEDO Standard Interface Command Set):
MBS( "SerialPort.Write"; $port; "Z" & Char(13) & Char(10) )
Send print weight command to scale for MT-SICS (METTLER TOLEDO Standard Interface Command Set):
MBS( "SerialPort.Write"; $port; "P" & Char(13) & Char(10) )
This function is free to use.
Created 18th August 2014, last changed 19th September 2019