sven-e
September 23, 2022, 8:03pm
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Hi, Using the new plotter I can only see about 50 samples (horisontally) The old v1 plotter showed many more samples. I cannot find a setting or preference to allow more samples in the plotter window.
FYI: I have an application that outputs 10 samples every second. This means that the plotter window only covers 5 seconds. This is too short to show how the application works. I need at least 30 seconds.
(Sending this bug report here as I could not find a better place. If there is, please let me know.)
Thanks / Sven
Hi @sven-e . Thanks for your suggestion. The Arduino IDE developers are tracking this here:
opened 07:47PM - 02 Feb 22 UTC
type: enhancement
topic: code
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
The new Se… rial Plotter displays only 50 data values, compared to the previous version, which displayed 500 values.
This is a problem because events stream by 10 times faster and are much harder to see. With 500 points we see a much clearer time history of the physical measurements we're making. I use the Plotter a lot in my K-12 STEM workshops, and this will really have a negative impact.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
Change the number of plot values back to 500. Or make it a user selectable option
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
I can modify my old programs to slow Serial.print outputs so the data stream doesn't disappear so quickly. It kinda works but it's suboptimal.
and here:
opened 09:53AM - 24 Mar 22 UTC
type: enhancement
topic: code
### Describe the request
Adding some setting to Serial Plotter:
- A button to… to disable the auto-scale
- A zoom to have more points in the x-axis
### Describe the current behavior
The auto-scale do not allow me to have a good and rapid reading of the graph evolution. The too low number of points in x-axis does not allow me to have a view of the high speed datas for a long enough time.
### Arduino IDE version
2.0.0-rc5
### Operating system
Windows
### Operating system version
10 Pro x64 (20H2)
### Additional context
_No response_
### Issue checklist
- [X] I searched for previous requests in [the issue tracker](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/issues?q=)
- [X] I verified the feature was still missing when using the latest [nightly build](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide#nightly-builds)
- [X] My request contains all necessary details
If you have a GitHub
In the meantime you can alias your display by display every nth point. The user may not need that much information.
DR