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I am having a bizarre issue with the serial output from my arduino board.  I have a simple program (code below) that reads a dummy serial message from the computer and then sends a reply.  It works fine with the Arduino monitor.  But when I try to read it in with Processing it just read a null string.  And when I try to do it with Python it will read the correct output twice.  Also, when I try uploading new code onto the device there is often a timeout error, which can be fixed by unplugging and board and then re-plugging it.  This was all working fine a while ago, and the board hasn't undergone any trauma so I don't think there is a physical problem.  Any ideas?  I'm really stumped here.  Thanks for your help!


// Arduino code
// When I upload this and use the Serial monitor, putting in "000" and pressing enter
// makes "1000" print to the screen
void loop() {
  if (Serial.available() ) {
    char mybuffer[4];
    int throw_away1 = Serial.readBytesUntil('\n', mybuffer, NUM_COMM_DIGITS);
    Serial.println(1000);
  }
}

// Processing code
// Prints out a constant string of "999", rather than "1000"
void draw() {
  delay(400);
  port.write("000\n");
  int res;
  String inString = port.readStringUntil('\n');
  if (inString != null) res = int(trim(inString));
  else res = 999;
  println(res);
}

# Python code
from serial import Serial
ser = Serial("/dev/tty.usbserial-A900H0WW")
ser.write("000\n")
ser.read()  # prints '1000\r\n'
ser.read()  # prints '1000\r\n' again
ser.read()  # this time it hangs

[Reply #1 on:]

I suggest that you head over to http://snippets-r-us.com to get help with your snippets. Or, post ALL of your code (using the # icon above).

[Reply #2 on:]

Here are my entire Arduino and Processing programs.  One obvious thing to tweak with is the baud rate (something I admittedly don't know a lot about), but it was working fine a couple weeks ago.  Thanks!

// Arduino
void setup() {}
void loop() {
  if (Serial.available() ) {
    char mybuffer[4];
    int throw_away1 = Serial.readBytesUntil('\n', mybuffer, 4);
    Serial.println(1000);
  }
}

// Processing
import processing.serial.*;
Serial port;
void setup() {
  port = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600);
}
void draw() {
  delay(400);
  port.write("000\n");
  int res;
  String inString = port.readStringUntil('\n');
  if (inString != null) res = int(trim(inString));
  else res = 999;
  println(res);
}

[Reply #3 on:]

Code:

// Arduino
void setup() {}
void loop() {
  if (Serial.available() ) {
    char mybuffer[4];
    int throw_away1 = Serial.readBytesUntil('\n', mybuffer, 4);
    Serial.println(1000);
  }
}

Serail.available(), Serial.read(), and Serial.print() without Serial.begin() won't work. No wonder nothing gets to/from Processing.

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I'm afraid that doesn't help.  Here is the new code.  Note that it matches the baud rate in Processing.

// Arduino code
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
  if (Serial.available() ) {
    char mybuffer[4];
    int throw_away1 = Serial.readBytesUntil('\n', mybuffer, 4);
    Serial.println(1000);
  }
}

[Reply #5 on:]

I'm afraid that doesn't help.

Then, you have problems on the Processing side, too.

Code:

  port = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600);

Are you certain that the Arduino is on the first port in the list?

[Reply #6 on:]

Yes, it definitely is.  Thank you by the way for your time and help!  I'm inclined to suspect it's a problem with the serial port in general, since Processing and Python mess up in completely different ways on it.  But for some reason the Arduino monitor is working fine.

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But for some reason the Arduino monitor is working fine.

It is probably better written code.