Re: What is best way to trigger Octave via ethernet?

[Olaf Till]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 06:36:46PM +0200, Olaf Till wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 07:54:21AM -0700, Vision wrote:
> > I'm able to send TCP packets from the PLC to a specific IP and port.
> > Is there an option in octave to listen to this specific port and get
> > triggered when data is transferred. I also think that avoiding a loop is
> > better?
> 
> If you already have an .oct file which can read from the port, you can
> use the unix 'select()' call (see 'man 2 select') on this port.  It is
> just there for such a purpouse; it can be used in a way that it
> returns when data is readable.

But since you have only one port to read from, reading in blocking
mode could suffice for you without select.

Olaf

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