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Fixing gcode-sender.rb / serialport.rb "invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)"

Posted by crox on
Somehow, most of the time my Arduino-based EggBot clone outputs one byte of undetermined garbage before saying "Ready". This caused gcode-sender.rb to fail with "invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)".

Eventually I found the solution in a post by Wayne Brissette here: https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/4409620. Basically you need to treat the string as binary instead of utf-8. This small change in the code that waits for the robot to be ready fixed the issue for me:
--- gcode-sender.rb.orig
+++ gcode-sender.rb
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   sp.read_timeout = 0 # Necessary for Windows.
   while line = sp.gets
     print line
-    break if line.match(/^Ready/)
+    break if line.force_encoding("BINARY").match(/^.?Ready/)
   end
   File.foreach(filename) do |line|
     line.chomp!

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