How to close a serialport? 2019b

When is used serial i can open and close port by fopen/fclose

How to close port with serialport?

Code:

serialportlist("all")

serialportlist("available")

serial_com_6 = serialport("COM6", 115200,"Timeout",5);

Error using serialport (line 116)

Unable to connect to the serialport device at port 'COM6'. Verify that a device is connected to the port, the port is not in use, and all serialport input arguments and

parameter values are supported by the device.

Error in IR (line 4)

serial_com_6 = serialport("COM6", 115200,"Timeout",5);

Answer 1

[Charles Tritt]

I had the same question. I can't find this documented any place, but did some experiments. I found that simply clearing the serialport object from the workspace made the port available outside of Matlab.

Answer 2

[Pedro Inácio]

Using your code example, I provide a simple example on how to open and close the serial connection.

Starting by inspecting the serial ports conditions:

>> availableSerialObj = serialportlist("available");
>> disp(availableSerialObj);
COM6
>> allSerialObj = serialportlist("all");
>> disp(allSerialObj);
COM6

Serial port COM6 is available. Initiate serial port COM6:

>> serialObj = serialport("COM6",11500,"Timeout",5);

Inspect for the serial ports conditions:

>> availableSerialObj = serialportlist("available");
>> disp(availableSerialObj);
>> allSerialObj = serialportlist("all");
>> disp(allSerialObj);
COM6

COM6 is open, and as you reported, a re-call to the serialport function triggers an error:

>> try
>>   serialObj = serialport("COM6",11500,"Timeout",5);
>>   displayAllProperties(serialObj) 
>> catch err
>>   disp(err.getReport());
>> end

Catching the error report on the MATLAB console:

Error using serialport (line 116) Unable to connect to the serialport device at port 'COM6'. Verify that a device is connected to the port, the port is not in use, and all serialport input arguments and parameter values are supported by the device. See related documentation for troubleshooting steps.

To close and re-open the serial object you must clear the variable using the clearvars function.

>> clearvars('serialObj');

Now you can repeat the same code sequence above:

>> availableSerialObj = serialportlist("available");
>> disp(availableSerialObj);
COM6
>> allSerialObj = serialportlist("all");
>> disp(allSerialObj);
COM6
>> serialObj = serialport("COM6",11500,"Timeout",5);
>> availableSerialObj = serialportlist("available");
>> disp(availableSerialObj);
>> allSerialObj = serialportlist("all");
>> disp(allSerialObj);
COM6