Adding Delay between commands

[mred589]

How can I add A delay between the executed commands.

I need to know this because I have other programs controlling girder and they are sending commands too fast for the serial device (a cable box) to react.

[Mark F]

If all the commands are generating strings that need to go out the same serial port, you could change the transmit message settings to include an intra-command delay.

[miked]

Also, note that Mark's suggestion even work where the commands are sent by different Girder commands.

For instance, I have a plug-in that communicates with my Faroudja video processor via the serial port. One of the multi-groups is something like:

Command to turn Faroudja on
Command to switch Faroudja to S-Video source

With an inter-command delay, Faroudja would go on, but not switch to the s-video source. I added the inter-command delay (1 sec), and bingo, all is well.

Also, you may want to insert an inter-character delay, so that each character of a string is separated by a period of time (10 ms or so, for instance).