Updated Version Please note that this is a revised version of the advice in this earlier Thread which has become very long. As far as possible I have kept the code examples identical or simplifed them slightly. It should not be necessary to refer to the older Thread, but feel free to do so. Content…

Continued from previous Post Example 3 - A more complete system The simple system in Example 2 will work well with a sympathetic human who does not try to mess it up. But if the computer or person sending the data cannot know when the Arduino is ready to receive there is a real risk that the Arduin…

Continued from previous Post Receiving numbers rather than text So far the examples have assumed you want to receive text. But perhaps you want to send a number or maybe a mix of text and numbers. Example 4 - Receiving a single number from the Serial Monitor The simplest case is where you want to …

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Great tutorial, especially the use of a char* and parsing... While it's not really suitable for beginners, I feel that you dismiss Serialevent() far too easily... Depending on using Serial.Available() is akin to using delay() instead of millis(). Serialevent() allows your program to acquire incom…

lastchancename: Serialevent() allows your program to acquire incoming characters 'asynchronously' There is nothing related to events in serialEvent, it is just a hidden synchronous 'if Serial.available()' call to a function.

Great; finally a cleanup of the original that was far too big to dig through. Suggestion Maybe ask a mod to lock this. People can ask questions in another thread.

Maybe ask a mod to lock this. People can ask questions in another thread. That will happen in a day or two when I am satisfied that I have not made a stupid mistake somewhere. Thanks for the various kind comments. ...R

I really appreciate your sharing this information. I have not been involved with c++ for very long and there is so much more to learn than with Visual Basic. So much of Visual Basic is hard-coded into the language while c++ is more of a roll-your-own language with much more potential and much more c…

Serial Input Basics - updated - #9 by pert - Tutorials

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