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I have a Py script that controls my TV. I have posted about this before but didn't get much so I am trying a little different approach.

This is the ON command.

Code:
import time, serial

ser = serial.Serial(port='/dev/ttyUSB0', baudrate=9600, timeout=1)

ser.write("\x08\x22\x00\x00\x00\x02\xd4")

data = ser.read(24)

print data.encode('hex')

time.sleep(2)

ser.close()

This works but occasinaly the TV dosent respond and I have to try again. Maybe two or three times. Once the TV does respond it sends data back.

This is what it should send:

Code:
030cf100

But sometimes I get:

Code:
030cf1030cf100

or

ada103010001a6030cf100

When I get extra data the 030cf100 is still there. So what I want is to do a loop, maybe setting the response as a variable until that response has the string 030cf100 in it somewhere.

Can anyone help me with this?

I came up with this but it still continues even if it gets the exact string. Thoughts?

Code:
import time, serial

ser = serial.Serial(port='/dev/ttyUSB0', baudrate=9600, timeout=1)

data=""

string="030cf100"

while 1 == 1:

        if string in data:

                print "found it"

                Break

                ser.close()

        else:

                ser.write("\x08\x22\x00\x00\x00\x01\xd5")

                data = ser.read(24)

                resp=data.encode('hex')

                print resp

                time.sleep(1)

print "finished"

untested, but something like this should work:

Code:
import time, serial

def send_command(cmd):

        ser = serial.Serial(port='/dev/ttyUSB0', baudrate=9600, timeout=1)

        ser.write(cmd)

        return ser.read(24)

while (send_command("\x08\x22\x00\x00\x00\x01\xd5") != "030cf100"):

        time.sleep(1)

print "finished"

ser.close()

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