datareceived event will not fire, help?

Question

Hello there, I'm practising working with a Arduino through bluetooth there I get a connection but my program seems to not receive any data. I have followed the instructions from Microsoft page: https://msdn.microsoft.com/fi-fi/library/system.io.ports.serialport.datareceived(v=vs.110).aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=csharp#code-snippet-1 but the function "DataReceivedHandler" is not firing since it won't write out the text: "Data Received". This has been a unsolving problem some days so any help is very much appreciated!

Best regards, Björn

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO.Ports;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace PortDataReceived
{
    class PortDataReceived
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            SerialPort mySerialPort = new SerialPort("COM5");

            mySerialPort.BaudRate = 9600;
            mySerialPort.Parity = Parity.None;
            mySerialPort.StopBits = StopBits.One;
            mySerialPort.DataBits = 8;
            mySerialPort.Handshake = Handshake.None;
            mySerialPort.RtsEnable = true;
            mySerialPort.Open();
            mySerialPort.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(DataReceivedHandler);



           Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");
            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.ReadKey();
            mySerialPort.Close();
        }

        private static void DataReceivedHandler(
                            object sender,
                            SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e)
        {
            SerialPort sp = (SerialPort)sender;
            string indata = sp.ReadExisting();
            Console.WriteLine("Data Received:");
            Console.Write(indata);
        }
    }
}

Answer 1 · 2018-05-30T09:20:08Z

May 30, 2018 9:20am

From the link you posted, we can see

Data events can be caused by any of the items in the SerialData enumeration. Because the operating system determines whether to raise this event or not, not all parity errors may be reported. The DataReceived event is also raised if an Eof character is received, regardless of the number of bytes in the internal input buffer and the value of the ReceivedBytesThreshold property.

So maybe you did not receive an Eof character. You should wait a little and check content of ReceivedBytesThreshold. If ReceivedBytesThreshold = 0, it means you do not receive anything. If not, it means operating system decides not to raise DataReceived (probably because there is no EoF character.

Something like

mySerialPort.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(DataReceivedHandler);

// Ugly way to pause the program
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to check ReceivedBytesThreshold...");
Console.ReadKey();
Console.WriteLine (mySerialPort.ReceivedBytesThreshold);

Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...");
Console.WriteLine();

Also you can try to handle ErrorReceived error.

Hope this help

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