Re: I need to read an unsolicited serial variable string.

Baud, stop bits etc. is purely personal preference. LAbVIEW can read in basically any format, but I have a personal preference for tab seperators between values and newline/carriage return as a termination. This way the text can be streamed to a text file and is readable afterwards in Excel usw..

Re: I need to read an unsolicited serial variable string.

Thank you for your assistance. You have been very helpful. Cheers!

Re: I need to read an unsolicited serial variable string.

Thank you for the response. I have the capability to reprogram my serial device to output any format. What format would be preferable from a LabVIEW point of view?

I need to read an unsolicited serial variable string.

Hello, I am new to LabVIEW and I am working on my first app. I have a serial device that I am trying to read from. This device periodically broadcasts a string containing 17 numeric values. Each value is delimitated and of a variable length. I need to monitor the serial port and when the data