Reading data from serial port

Question

FYI I am running busybox. I am able to send data to my ttyS1 using the following command:

stty -F /dev/ttyS1 speed 115200 cs8 -cstopb -parenb -echo
echo -en 'data here' > /dev/ttyS1

But when I try to read, I do this:

stty -F /dev/ttyS1 speed 115200 cs8 -cstopb -parenb -echo
cat /dev/ttyS1

But program ends without any messages. I also tried cat < /dev/ttyS1 doesn't work either.

I am positive that the data is being sent to this port since I have LED indicator to indicate data is coming. And Connection Settings are set to be same as 115200 baud, 8bit, Even Parity, 1stopbit.

Answer 1

So found answer in another forum. I will put it here, basically just add timeout timing and a while loop to constantly read the port.

stty -F /dev/ttyS1 speed 115200 cs8 -cstopb -parenb -echo time 3 min 0
while [ true ]; do
   cat /dev/ttyS1
done

That's all.