The microcontroller can also send back data in text format or simply as data bytes. Thus the serial communication provides a text user interface (TUI) for the microcontroller. Apart from simply communicating with the user the serial communication is a very useful debugging tool in the code development process. Send and Receive Serial Data Using Arduino Hardware: In this model, the TX1 pin sends serial data to the RX1 pin of your Arduino hardware.This model is configured to run in External mode. For more information on External mode, see Tune and Monitor Model Running on Arduino Hardware. Sending Data From Arduino to Excel (and Plotting It): I've searched extensively for a way that I could plot my Arduino sensor reading in real time. Not only plot, but also display and store the data for further experimentation and corrections.The simplest solution I’ve found was to use excel, but wit. The serial communication is the most important communication port which all microcontrollers should have. This enables the user to communicate with the microcontroller using text commands. The microcontroller can also send back data in text format or simply as data bytes. Thus the serial communication provides a text user interface (TUI) for the microcontroller. The Arduino Serial Monitor function can display serial data sent from Arduino. To start the Serial Monitor, click the Serial Monitor toolbar icon as shown in Figure 4-2. A new window will open for displaying output from Arduino.
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Now that we’ve got all that downloaded and installed, let’s start with the Arduino part.
Here’s a basic template I created that will display the time in column A and your sensor measurements in column B.
Of course, this is just a basic template, which is pretty straight forward and you can tweak it to suit your needs.
I’ve added explanations in the Arduino code so you (and I, after not working with it for a while) know which part of the code does what.
Here’s the sketch:
//always starts in line 0 and writes the thing written next to LABEL
void setup() {
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Serial.begin(9600); // the bigger number the better
Serial.println('CLEARDATA'); //clears up any data left from previous projects
Serial.println('LABEL,Acolumn,Bcolumn,...'); //always write LABEL, so excel knows the next things will be the names of the columns (instead of Acolumn you could write Time for instance)
Serial.println('RESETTIMER'); //resets timer to 0
}
void loop() {
Serial.print('DATA,TIME,TIMER,'); //writes the time in the first column A and the time since the measurements started in column B
Serial.print(Adata);
Serial.print(Bdata);
Serial.println(...); //be sure to add println to the last command so it knows to go into the next row on the second run
delay(100); //add a delay
}
Obviously if you upload this code, it won’t work on it’s own!
You need to add a formula for Adata, Bdata and … . This template is just for reference so you know how to use the program. Just add Serial.read() function, name it Adata, Bdata and … and it should work.
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I can't correctly send data over serial from a Python script to an Arduino Uno. I'm using 9600 baud, and the Arduino correctly resets, but it does not read the char I'm sending from the Python script. I call
time.sleep()
to ensure the reset on the Arduino does not interfere, and I'm using Windows 7. I should clarify by saying that my desktop is running the python script and connected via USB to the Serial of my Arduino Uno. I then have the RX & TX pins (pins 0 & 1) of my Uno connected to my Mega's Serial1 (pins 18 & 19). I then use the Serial Monitor in the Arduino IDE on my laptop (which uses the Mega's regular Serial) to peek at what the Uno is seeing. Here is the code for the Mega:
Here is the code for the Uno:
And finally, here is the python script:
In case it helps, I'm essentially trying to write the hit locations in Doom3 to an Arduino over serial so that the Arduino can turn a motor on in the proper location on your body. The game code is in C++, and I first tried using a serial library for C++, but that didn't work either.
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I just came across something similar. The key here is that it worked when communicating with the arduino from the IDE and failed when using some other serial program. You have been bit by the
auto-reset
feature.
Check out this link on the Arduino Playground for a detailed description of what is going on and what to do about it. The site gives several solutions depending on you skill and comfort level.
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I expect your C++ code will work once you implement one of the work arounds from this site.
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If I understand your physical setup correctly, there appears to be a conflict between the Arudino IDE and python. Only one program by default can open the serial port at a time (like opening a file for exclusive write). If you just use the python script, don't start the arduino IDE and change the ardiuno to turn on an LED when it gets a msg, that should work (if you serial port assignment is correct). The arduino's diagnostic LEDs should blink with normal serial traffic, but for a single msg you might be missing the short blink.
It looks like there is also a conflict between using the serial port between the IDE and between Arduinos. (I don't understand the reason for multiple Arduinos.) Each serial communication pair should be unique. Use the Arduino's SoftwareSerial library to use another pair of digital pins to communicate between the arduinos, not the d0/d1 pins currently used by the FTDI chip to talk to the IDE.
Might also include some diagnostic msgs in the python script if it can't open/communicate with the serial port.
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I had a problem too with serial communication, i managed to resolve it by closing the serial monitor in the Arduino. I don't know if you open it when you run your program, but if you do then that might be the problem.
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Serial Communication is not always accurate. Sometimes you can notice that in the Serial Monitor, garbage data that you don't want appearing due to the overlapping of two or more pieces of data from Arduino. Similarly, try sending two values quickly and printing the value on the serial monitor, you will notice the same kind of overlapping. Arduino requires certain delays to work effectively and hence pyserial module is not the best way to use python with Arduino.
1) In your python script use the ser.write() or ser.read() functions twice! If you find this irritating, use the next solution.
2 ) Use Arduino_Master_Delta module(python) to communicate with Arduino which is designed especially to ease the process and remove garbage values with advanced data science and visualization functions.
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The link to the pip module is Arduino_Master_Delta
With this module installed you can use this statement instead:
Read the documentation in the above link to learn more !!
BTW I'm the developer of this python module. Do share your view about it.
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