Your problem description isn't very clear, but I think the issue is that you stop listening once you've received the 'ON' response. You print "message received" then the return out of testall_aspects, so there nothing left to listen for the 'off' message.

To deal with asynchronous messages from the arduino you could use a repeat callback to poll the serial port (see Tk::after and Tk::callbacks), something like :-

    $widget->repeat(100,\&handler);

...
sub handler {
    my $data = $port->lookfor;
    return unless $data;
    # do stuff
    ...
}

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Also, with this kind of problem it's worth drawing a sequence diagram to show how the messages get passed between the 2 systems.

In reply to Re: Serial Port by RichardK
in thread Serial Port by PilotinControl

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