I can not seem to find an app that will allow me to save the serial output from my arduino to a text file on my chromebook. There are plenty of apps to monitor the data but not save it. The students in my school use chromebooks and so I would love it if I can use the chromebooks to do all the interfacing with the arduinos. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be very appreciative.
Robin2:
A little browsing found a program called Termius, but I don't know if it can same input to a file. However it would be strange if it could not.
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Thanks, I just had a play with it. It does not seem to allow me to make a serial connection???? Not sure if I really know what I'm doing though. Do you know how I should use it to connect??
BowralHS:
Thanks, I just had a play with it. It does not seem to allow me to make a serial connection???? Not sure if I really know what I'm doing though. Do you know how I should use it to connect??
I use LInux. I don't have any experience with a Chromebook - I thought they have a lot in common with Linux.
I have no problems using a serial terminal to view the data coming across the serial connection, my issue is I don't know how to save or copy the data so I can use it in a spreadsheet.
I have use a few different apps that allow you to serial monitor like the serial monitor in the ides but I can not work out how to save the data to a file for use in sheets or excel.
If he is on a Chromebook, he's probably using the Web Editor and not the IDE.
This has been an exercise in pulling teeth.
He doesn't seem to want help because he's been awfully secretive about whatever he is doing and using.
Wasted 3 days in this nonsensical drips and drabs of info.
ieee488:
If he is on a Chromebook, he's probably using the Web Editor and not the IDE.
This has been an exercise in pulling teeth.
He doesn't seem to want help because he's been awfully secretive about whatever he is doing and using.
Wasted 3 days in this nonsensical drips and drabs of info.
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Apologies for the dribs and drabs, not intentional just very very new to all this. I've trying to be brief so as not to waste peoples time, seems I've been way too brief. Let me try one more time.
I've been using Arduino Create web editor to write and upload code to my arduino.
I've also used Chromeduino which is another we editor.
both have serial monitors associated with them.
When I use the serial monitors I see a stream of data that is being sent via serial.write command. The data comes from sensors such as grove temperature sensors. The issue for me is that I want to be able to save the data to a text file so that my students can process it in a spreadsheet.
I hope that this extra information helps and does not cause anymore toothache.
My guess is that those terminal programs are designed to run in your browser and AFAIK for security reasons browsers generally don't have access to the PC's file system.
This webpage that I found explains how to install PuTTY on a Chromebook. I don't have a Chromebook so I have no idea whether it works or whether it does what you want on your Chromebook but the regular PuTTY does allow you to save the incoming data to a file.