Serial Plotter not working but Serial Monitor works .....

My sketch:

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#include <Wire.h>
#include "Adafruit_SGP30.h"

Adafruit_SGP30 sgp;

/* return absolute humidity [mg/m^3] with approximation formula

  • @param temperature [°C]
  • @param humidity [%RH]
    */
    uint32_t getAbsoluteHumidity(float temperature, float humidity) {
    // approximation formula from Sensirion SGP30 Driver Integration chapter 3.15
    const float absoluteHumidity = 216.7f * ((humidity / 100.0f) * 6.112f * exp((17.62f * temperature) / (243.12f + temperature)) / (273.15f + temperature)); // [g/m^3]
    const uint32_t absoluteHumidityScaled = static_cast<uint32_t>(1000.0f * absoluteHumidity); // [mg/m^3]
    return absoluteHumidityScaled;
    }

void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.println("SGP30 test");

if (! sgp.begin()){
Serial.println("Sensor not found :(");
while (1);
}
Serial.print("Found SGP30 serial #");
Serial.print(sgp.serialnumber[0], HEX);
Serial.print(sgp.serialnumber[1], HEX);
Serial.println(sgp.serialnumber[2], HEX);

// If you have a baseline measurement from before you can assign it to start, to 'self-calibrate'
//sgp.setIAQBaseline(0x8E68, 0x8F41); // Will vary for each sensor!
}

int counter = 0;
void loop() {
// If you have a temperature / humidity sensor, you can set the absolute humidity to enable the humditiy compensation for the air quality signals
//float temperature = 22.1; // [°C]
//float humidity = 45.2; // [%RH]
//sgp.setHumidity(getAbsoluteHumidity(temperature, humidity));

if (! sgp.IAQmeasure()) {
Serial.println("Measurement failed");
return;
}
Serial.print("TVOC "); Serial.print(sgp.TVOC); Serial.print(" ppb\t");
Serial.print("eCO2 "); Serial.print(sgp.eCO2); Serial.println(" ppm");
delay(1000);

counter++;
if (counter == 30) {
counter = 0;

uint16_t TVOC_base, eCO2_base;
if (! sgp.getIAQBaseline(&eCO2_base, &TVOC_base)) {
Serial.println("Failed to get baseline readings");
return;
}
Serial.print("****Baseline values: eCO2: 0x"); Serial.println(eCO2_base, HEX);
Serial.print(" & TVOC: 0x"); Serial.println(TVOC_base, HEX);
}
}

And I get this output to screen when I run Serial Plotter:

at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:789)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.prePaintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:738)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.access$1200(RepaintManager.java:64)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager$ProcessingRunnable.run(RepaintManager.java:1732)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:756)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:726)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

Apparently what you are sending to the serial plotter, whatever that is, isn't valid.

I don't have the "serial plotter" whatever that is so, you'll need to do further debugging.

  Serial.print("Found SGP30 serial #");
  Serial.print(sgp.serialnumber[0], HEX);
  Serial.print(sgp.serialnumber[1], HEX);
  Serial.println(sgp.serialnumber[2], HEX);

    Serial.println("Measurement failed");

      Serial.println("Sensor not found :(");

      Serial.println("Failed to get baseline readings");

    Serial.print("****Baseline values: eCO2: 0x"); Serial.println(eCO2_base, HEX);
    Serial.print(" & TVOC: 0x"); Serial.println(TVOC_base, HEX);

What do you expect the plotter to do with this data?

demays:
And I get this output to screen when I run Serial Plotter:

at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:789)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.prePaintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:738)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.access$1200(RepaintManager.java:64)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager$ProcessingRunnable.run(RepaintManager.java:1732)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:756)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:726)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

Which version of the Arduino IDE are you using? Which operating system are you using?

ieee488:
I don't have the "serial plotter" whatever that is so, you'll need to do further debugging.

Serial Plotter is a feature added to the Arduino IDE somewhere in the mid-1.6.x versions. You'll find it at Tools > Serial Plotter. It plots serial data. You can plot multiple data sets by separating the data with a tab. Each newline creates a new data point.

PaulS:
What do you expect the plotter to do with this data?

I don't think that's the cause of the error. I just ran a mock-up of the code and it works fine for me. That stuff in setup() will only mess up the first data point of the first data set. Serial Plotter manages to ignore all the other non-data stuff printed to serial too.