From 70e96a5055f68ff61c6367abc1a77ea97586f7be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eveldee <eveldee0680@live.fr>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 17:01:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update ReadData

Now use a buffer and check how much bytes has been read
Don't use a sleep anymore
---
 WaveshareUARTFingerprintSensor/FingerprintSensor.cs | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/WaveshareUARTFingerprintSensor/FingerprintSensor.cs b/WaveshareUARTFingerprintSensor/FingerprintSensor.cs
index 75f66af..08c5b8b 100644
--- a/WaveshareUARTFingerprintSensor/FingerprintSensor.cs
+++ b/WaveshareUARTFingerprintSensor/FingerprintSensor.cs
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ namespace WaveshareUARTFingerprintSensor
         public const string SecondarySerialPort = "/dev/ttyS0";
         public const int DefaultTimeout = 10_000;
         public const int MaxUserID = 0xFFF;
+        public const int DataBufferSize = 4095;
 
         public event WakedEventHandler Waked;
         public delegate void WakedEventHandler(FingerprintSensor sender);
@@ -166,9 +167,6 @@ namespace WaveshareUARTFingerprintSensor
 
         private byte[] ReadData(int length)
         {
-            // Needed to work
-            Thread.Sleep(150);
-
             byte first = (byte)_serialPort.ReadByte();
 
             if (first != PacketSeparator)
@@ -178,7 +176,12 @@ namespace WaveshareUARTFingerprintSensor
 
             byte[] data = new byte[length];
 
-            _serialPort.Read(data, 0, length);
+            int offset = 0;
+            do
+            {
+                int toRead = length - offset > DataBufferSize ? DataBufferSize : length - offset;
+                offset += _serialPort.Read(data, offset, toRead);
+            } while (offset < length);
 
             byte checksum = (byte)_serialPort.ReadByte();
             byte separator = (byte)_serialPort.ReadByte();