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Receiving large data stream using Pyserial - trampas - Mar-08-2017
I am having a problem where I am streaming binary data from a micro to PC and I want to graph the data.
The data is binary data coming in around 100 kBits/sec. So I setup a thread in python to receive the data and I save the last 2 seconds of data to an array. The issue I have ran into is that when I plot the data the receiving thread halts and appears to cause the Pyserial receive buffer to over flow. That is the threads are not running concurrently.
I figure I am not the first person to use Python and stream large data real time into python, does anyone have an example of how to do such a thing?
Thanks
Trampas
RE: Receiving large data stream using Pyserial - Analyser - Mar-09-2017
You may need to refer to Python's threading topic: https://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html#semaphore-example
Avoid the data to be accessed by the receiving thread and plot thread concurrently.