Send Blank Line on Serial Startup

For some reason, the first command send when the serial connection starts up seems to be ignored. Work around is just to send a blank line
krkeegan · Aug 31, 2017 · 6c934aa · 6c934aa
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diff --git a/Connection/serialPortThread.py b/Connection/serialPortThread.py
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ def getmessage (self):
             #print "port open?:"
             #print self.serialInstance.isOpen()
             self.lastMessageTime = time.time()
+            self.data.gcode_queue.put(' ') # send a blank line on startup
             self.data.connectionStatus = 1
 
             self._getFirmwareVersion()