PEEK function on UART serial buffer

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PEEK function on UART serial buffer

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Hi is it possible in FC8 to PEEK (look at without removing) the first byte on a UART buffer? This woud be really helpful in synchronising actions a serial data stream.
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Re: PEEK function on UART serial buffer

Post by Benj »

Hi Chris,

I'm afraid on the hardware if you read the buffer then the value is removed. A circular buffer combined with a UART RX Interrupt would allow you to read the data as and when you're ready and allow you to peek at the data.

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