How to constantly receive data from serial port without using fread all the time?

Hi! I'm currently using Matlab to receive data via serial communication. Is there a way to constantly receive my data without the need of using the function fread all the time?

Answer 1

[dpb]

Well, no, not really...that's what fread does is to handle the incoming serial port for binary data.

What you're probably looking for is Events and Callbacks section under the Serial Port objects doc for techniques to get out of a polling mode to instead handle events.