Reading TIME in PLX-DAQ

Projects Interfacing w/ Software on the Computer
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Can't get the time to read in PLX-DAQ My header reads in fine and all data except the time comes in as 0.60 and other numbers similar.

Here's my print setup.

Serial.print("DATA,DATE,TIME,");
  Serial.print(hum);
  Serial.print(",");
  Serial.print(tempF);
  Serial.print(",");
  printTemperature(Soil_Temp);
  Serial.print(",");
  printTemperature(Water_Tank_Temp);
  Serial.print(",");
  Serial.print(soil_moisture);
  Serial.print(",");
  printTemperature(Compost_Pile_Temp);
  Serial.print(",");
  printTemperature(Solar_Collector_Temp);
  Serial.print(",");
  printTemperature(Compost_water_out_Temp);
  Serial.print(",");
  printTemperature(Solar_water_out_Temp);
  Serial.print(",");
  printTemperature(Outside_Temp);
  Serial.print(",");
  printTemperature(Compost_Air_out_Temp);
  Serial.print(",");
  printTemperature(Rover);
  Serial.print(",");
  Serial.println(photocellReading);

Other than the time issue this is working great and being to manipulate the data is awsome!!

Thanks

2

The code looks 100% kosher but I don't use the date. In an attempt to isolate the problem, try just

Serial.print("DATA,TIME,");

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My header reads in fine and all data except the time comes in as 0.60 and other numbers similar.

The date and time values do NOT come from the Arduino. You are telling Excel to get the current date and time, and put them in two cells in the current row. It sounds like you have not formatted those cells to properly show the data that they hold. If you format a cell to show a numeric value, and put "Ted" in the cell, you will not get the results you expect. If you put a date in a cell that is supposed to show as a float, you will not get the results you expect.

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The format was the issue. I had it at one time, don't know what happened. Thanks