Sensor Simulation Issue for an IoT Stove Project with Arduino and ESP32

[lonewolf03]

Hello everyone,

I am working on an IoT stove project using Arduino and Firebase. However, I am facing difficulties in obtaining the necessary hardware, and ordering it takes too much time. Therefore, I have decided to work in simulation with Proteus.

To work around the issue of sensor availability, I thought of simulating the sensors with an Arduino board connected to the COMPIM port in Proteus. The sensor data would then be sent to an ESP32 board via the COMPIM, then transferred to Firebase to be displayed on a website. Additionally, I would like any instructions sent from the website to directly reach the simulation on the Arduino board. I have tried using some libraries like SoftwareSerial, but it complicates things, and I encounter many errors.

---Thank you in advance for your help.

[DaveX]

It might uncomplicate things to write some functions to simulate your sensors/environment and use them to simulate inputs in your program.

E.g.:

PID with simulated heater or motor

I wrote an example PID simulation for the PID_RT library. In the sketch code, it simulates a heater similar to the extruder block on a 3D printer so you can experiment with a PID with standardized, (simulated) hardware and see how it responds. I'm not discussing how to tune the parameters, since that depends greatly on your system and is well covered elsewhere in places specific to your system. I'm trying to demonstrate that: The default kP=2, kI=5, kD=1 PID parameters do respond to a stan…