Help with serial command queue

[donstephens]

I have written a plugin that controls an early Denon receiver. I made a public function that will send commands to it. I have a script that manipulates the Denon, but not all the commands are seen by the plugin. I suspect that it is a timing issue where one command is being processed and the next is missed.

I'd like to create a queue where the commands are fed to the plugin with a bit of a pause or even better something that waits until the receiver sends back the command.

Any ideas?

Thks

[mrhappy]

Fill an array with your commands then go through the array (for...next) with a pause in between each commands? You could sit in another loop waiting for the send response to come back before moving onto the next one.

[Steve Q]

I use hs.waitsecs(x) in all my scripts that send IR codes. 1-2 seconds is usually enough.

I see the same issue when getting a devicevalue or device string. If concurrent scripts are running, I think the script processing time by HS can increase to the point where the script will not do what it is supposed to do.


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[donstephens]

Thanks for the advice guys. Turns out that I have opened a can of worms, and will have to spend some quality time on this.