Writing Data to Text file for every five Minute Matlab - matlab

Question

Suppose vec_A, vec_B, vec_c are some matrices with random data. I want to write data to text file for every 5 min, My code as follows:
function samplegui_OpeningFcn(hObject, ~, handles, varargin)
handles.timer = timer(...
'ExecutionMode', 'fixedRate', ... % Run timer repeatedly
'Period', 300, ... % Initial period.
'TimerFcn', {#open,hObject}); % Specify callback
handles.output = hObject;
handles.vec_A=[];
handles.vec_B=[];
handles.vec_C=[];
guidata(hObject, handles);
function open_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles) % push button to receive serial data.
cnt=0;
while 1
% Getting data from Serial Port
get_lines=fgets(handles.se) % getting data from serial port
if~isempty(get_lines)
cnt=cnt+1;
if strfind(get_lines,'T') %Parsing data
handles.vec_A=[handles.vec_A;[timet newword]];
plot(handles.vec_A(:,1),handles.vec_A(:,2:end),'r'); % plotting
% Same follows for parsing and plot vec_B and Vec_C
drawnow(); % to update the Plots
end
end
Pause(.05);
start(handles.timer); % saving the data
dlmwrite('My_sample1.txt',handles.vec_A);
dlmwrite('My_sample2.txt',handles.vec_B);
dlmwrite('My_sample3.txt',handles.vec_C);
stop(handles.timer);
end
guidata(hObject, handles);
While running my code, following error occurs:
Error while evaluating TimerFcn for timer 'timer-6'
Too many input arguments.
How to execute timer in this case to write data successfully for every five minutes or suggest any other way to do it.

Answer 1

You have defined your TimerFcn to be {#open, hObject} but you don't have a function named open. Instead, it is trying to call the built-in open with three input arguments (the timer object, an event object, and hObject) and this is producing the error because open only accepts one input argument.
That being said, it's not clear at all how the code that you have provided will accomplish anything close to what you want. Something like this may work better.
function samplegui_OpeningFcn(hObject, ~, handles, varargin)
handles.timer = timer(...
'ExecutionMode', 'fixedRate', ... % Run timer repeatedly
'Period', 300, ... % Initial period.
'TimerFcn', #(s,e)write_data()); % Specify callback
handles.output = hObject;
handles.vec_A=[];
handles.vec_B=[];
handles.vec_C=[];
guidata(hObject, handles);
start(handles.timer);
%// Now update your data in a loop
cnt = 0;
while true
%// Getting data from Serial Port
get_lines = fgets(handles.se)
if ~isempty(LINES)
cnt = cnt + 1;
if strfind(LINES, 'T')
handles.vec_A = [handles.vec_A; [timet newword]];
plot(handles.vec_A(:,1), handles.vec_A(:,2:end),'r');
drawnow
end
end
end
function write_data()
%// Write it to file
dlmwrite('My_sample1.txt',handles.vec_A);
dlmwrite('My_sample2.txt',handles.vec_B);
dlmwrite('My_sample3.txt',handles.vec_C);
end
end