Right now I have approximately a dozen Arduino Mini Pros sending data via NRF24L01 radios to a Arduino UNO. This data is then sent to a 20x4 LCD for display.
What I would like to do is send it to a dedicated PC running Windows XP. I have tried using Putty and a few other similar programs to view the data but it is too crude to be useful.
Is there a dashboard style program out there that a person with limited skills could set up in a reasonable amount of time to do this ? It would be nice to have my data displayed on a nice big 17" screen instead of a 20x4 LCD.
You probably aren't fooling hard enough.There have been some amazing things done with Processing. A simpler approach is to feed the data direct into an Excel graph using PLX-DAQ.
Initially it can be a simple as typing the following in the cmd window then using a spreadsheet to examine your data (alter com1 to whatever serial port your arduino is using)
I don't want any of my data out on the web.
I'm so paranoid that I keep a second off the web computer just for my financials and personal things.
Plus a third off the web computer for my Arduino, Beagle Bone Black, home network, etc things.
Well then don't put your web page out on the web and don't make your web server accessible from outside your LAN. You have to actually do extra things to make your server accessible from the outside.
I find using a VT100 terminal emulation program is quick and simple to use.
It's inbuilt on Unix based systems and there are a few good applications that will run on MS Windows, Terra-Term comes to mind and has been discussed here before.
Simply use a VT100 library in your Arduino code to place the data in an X Y coordinate map with a range of selected colours to see real time data on your computer screen.
I use this technique all the time for early stage code development instead of the more crude line by line serial console.
Here is a screenshot of a simple example that I did for someone who was using Windows:
Oldtron:
Right now I have approximately a dozen Arduino Mini Pros sending data via NRF24L01 radios to a Arduino UNO. This data is then sent to a 20x4 LCD for display.
I went to Marty Currey's website and Visual Basic appears to be exactly what I am looking for.
Unfortunately for now it is well past my abilities and looks like there will be a steep learning curve.
But, I have downloaded Visual Studio and will use Marty's instructions as a guide to try to sort it out.
Between Arduino, ESP8266&WiFi(a real headache so far), and now Visual Basic, this stuff is starting to get me stressed out. But there was a time when nRF24's were a headbanger and now that has been beaten and whipped into a working system.
And at my age I need something to keep my mind from going dead.
It's said that "what doesn't kill you will make you stronger".