PinStatus

State of CD, CTS, DSR, and RI pins

Description

PinStatus is a structure array that contains the fields CarrierDetect, ClearToSend, DataSetReady and RingIndicator. These fields indicate the state of the Carrier Detect (CD), Clear to Send (CTS), Data Set Ready (DSR) and Ring Indicator (RI) pins, respectively. Refer to Control Pins to learn more about these pins.

PinStatus can be on or off for any of these fields. A value of on indicates the associated pin is asserted. A value of off indicates the associated pin is unasserted. For serial port objects, a pin status event occurs when any of these pins changes its state. A pin status event executes the file specified by PinStatusFcn.

In normal usage, the Data Terminal Ready (DTR) and DSR pins work together, while the Request To Send (RTS) and CTS pins work together. You can specify the state of the DTR pin with the DataTerminalReady property. You can specify the state of the RTS pin with the RequestToSend property.

Refer to Connect Two Modems for an example that uses PinStatus.

Characteristics

Usage	Serial port, VISA-serial
Read only	Always
Data type	Structure

Values

off	The associated pin is asserted
on	The associated pin is asserted

The default value is instrument dependent.