I downloaded arduino manager app on an iphone 5 but am completly lost on the programming side. I want to send a value named "total" to a display widget on the iPhone. Anybody here have any experience with the app?
Second result in a Google search.
Did you try that?
yes I downloaded the pdf and it was very uninformative.
trvslamm:
yes I downloaded the pdf and it was very uninformative.
In what way? I don't remember the last time I saw such a well documented system.
trvslamm:
yes I downloaded the pdf and it was very uninformative.
Really? It seemed to go into a lot of detail about the hardware and software required, with a step by step guide to setting it up. Have you actually tried running the example?
Heres where I'm at. I have an arduino uno with the arduino ethernet shield. the ethernet sheild is conneted to a netgear router i have the arduino ethernet library imported and the isocontroller library as well. I have the app downloaded on my iphone 5 but cannot connect the two. My question is where do i go from here? I want to add the functions to send and recieve data from the iphone to my existing code. I want to display the value of "cumulativeTotal" to a display widget and have the reset pin controled by a pushbutton widget. the problem is somewhere in the ip/mac adress part of the code. I dont know what these should be set as. help please?
Are you running the example? Step 2.4 of the instructions directs you to edit the IP parameters to suit your network. You need to either use dynamic IP addressing and find what IP address the Arduino has been allocated, or choose an appropriate static address and hard code that in the Arduino sketch. If that doesn't make sense I suggest you look for examples of using the Ethernet shield. Although it's not obvious how this works unless you understand how Internet Protocol works, it's a problem that every Ethernet sketch has to address.
I too had some trouble in the beginning. First build the example given in the book. Make sure you change the MAC address (located on the back of Ethernet shield) on the sketch Test Arduino Manager, I'm using ver 10.0 Make sure you label the LEDs exactly how they are described in the instructions. I used 470k Ohm resistors for the LEDs instead of 10k resistors to get brighter light. I had to read the instructions many times to understand them. I have not been able to incorporate sending something to another sketch yet.
I used 470k Ohm resistors for the LEDs instead of 10k resistors to get brighter light
I'm surprised you saw anything at all.
Hi all,
I am the engineer which designed and developed Arduino Manager (available for iPhone, iPad and Mac).
May be it is later to post, but I discovered this thread only today.
If anyone needs help with Arduino Manager, please do not hesitate to contact us at: fabboco at gmail dot com.
We'll be glad to help you having fun with Arduino and Arduino Manager.
I am new to arduino and have a project using a Mega ADK. It is an engine monitor that will display 12 values from presssures , temps and rpm using different sensors. I wrote a program for a temp sensor that uses an equation to get temp. How does the manager program retrieve that data? The information that I have read uses a different sensor. Does that wiget use it's own temp program? How does the manager program get the data from my program? I have to nest several routines for the various sensors and do not know how to do that yet.
Is this the wrong system for what I want to accomplish? By using a wireless shield i was hoping to be able to walk around the engine and make adjustments using the ipad screen to verify. Thanks for any help.
Joe Berki
Joe,
I am using Arduino Manager, so maybe I can help. I would suggest building the test circuit and load and run the test sketch. If you don't have all the components, you can just skip them. This way you will know if you have your Wifi working with the app.
Next just modify the example by taking out what you don't need, and adding what you need. This sketch uses many functions. If your new to this, you may want to read up on how functions work. Here is a good reference: http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/FunctionDeclaration
In the example sketch, you don't add anything in the "void loop()" function like a normal sketch, you use the "void doWork()" function. Look at the description of each function and add or remove lines until you get it working the way you want.
It sounds like you need several Display Widgets or Graph Widgets to monitor the values from your sensor. To send a value to your app, in the "void processOutgoingMessage()" function you will have a line like this:
iosController.writeMessage("PS",psValue);
For this example, add a Display or Graph Widget in the Arduino Manager App and name it "PS", and the variable "psValue" will contain the senor value you want to display. You can change these names, but just make sure you use the same name (ex. PS), in your sketch and in your app.
Dave
PS, if fab64 is still around, I have sent two e-mails to the support address over the last several months and I have not had a reply. It would be appreciated if you reply.
Dave,
I purchased the arduino manager app and put it on the Ipad. I could not get the code generator so I emailed fab64 yesterday and got a reply that they are fixing it. It was an offline email so i do not know if the forum is monitored.
It appears that a routine to address a sensor that requires math can be accessed and then return to the program to get the next sensor. Thanks
Joe Berki
Joe,
Your project sounds interesting, and using the Ipad to read the sensor data is a great idea. If you have a sketch that works to read and calculate a value you want to monitor, you can combine the two sketches. It would be best to take your code and put it into the Arduino Manager example sketch. Put the libraries, variables, and setup lines of code to the Arduino Manager sketch, and put the code from the loop function into the doWork function of the Arduino Manager sketch.
If you need any help doing this, if you post your two sketches, I may be able to show you how to do this. Maybe this new code generator feature will help, but it looks like this option cost extra.
I still have not had a reply from the support e-mail. There is supposed to be a new widget called a Console for viewing debug messages. The widget does not appear in the list when I add a widget so I want to know how to add this. I am using the Ipod so it may be a little different than the Ipad app.
Dave
I have written a sketch that reports 2 temperature usin a GM sensor doing the math in the sketch. There is also 3 pressure sensors in the sketch and the data dumps on to the screen.
As far as using the Arduino Manager app, it looks like the Bluetooth option is the best for my application. Unfortunately my IPAD does not support Bluetooth 4.0. The latest IPAD does but I cannot justify spending 500 dollars on another IPAD. So it appears I will have to try somthing else. It probably will not be wireless. I am open to suggestions.
Joe Berki
Back on the hunt for Arduino Manager fans and help. Fabrizio Boco has already offered helpm which is a good sign! I like the product, had no trouble getting it working, but I'm not new to Arduino or Ethernet connections.
Question is about Alarm widgets. I've got the iPad talking nicely to the Arduino Uno over WiFi using the standard Ethernet shield. I've got a number of one-way and two-way widgets working on a little light control system. Clever software, Arduino Manager. Reliable, too.
I have not figured out if and how Alarms work with Uno. I've tried with and without #ALARM_SUPPORT enabled. Anyone working on Arduino Manager these days?