Could not open port /dev/ttyS0: Errno 13: Permission denied: '/dev/ttyS0'

Question

I am getting this error whenever I am trying to run this code:

import serial
from time import sleep

ser = serial.Serial ("/dev/ttyS0", 9600)    #Open port with baud rate
while True:
    received_data = ser.read()              #read serial port
    sleep(0.03)
    data_left = ser.inWaiting()             #check for remaining byte
    received_data += ser.read(data_left)
    print (received_data)                   #print received data
    ser.write(received_data)

Error: Could not open port /dev/ttyS0: Errno 13: Permission denied: '/dev/ttyS0'

I referred This link for configuring my RPI model 3B+ I also tried This link for this problem but not successful. My user "pi" is already the member of the dialout group.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ groups pi
pi : pi adm tty dialout cdrom sudo audio video plugdev games users input netdev spi i2c gpio

Still, whenever I am trying to run this code, this error pops up. Would be thankful for any help and suggestion.

Answer 1

Your process is likely not running with elevated permissions. You should run it using sudo. Also, your programming model should be an event-driven one, not a poll in place one using a constant read and sleep -- that won't work well at all. You can attach an event handler to the ser object and only read when data is present.