Hello
I need to use a second laptop just to monitor my project.
The program is already compiled and uploaded to the esp32, which is mounted in place.
I've been having some strange behaviors, so i need to see through the serial monitor whats happening.
Can you folks sugest me a way to install only the serial monitor to this laptop, or a serial monitor software.
Thanks in advance
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You can use a terminal such as PuTTY on windows to monitor output from the Arduino Serial Port. Start the Arduino first (if for example you need to use the com port to upload code) and then start PuTTY connecting via the COM port your microcontroller is attached to. Speed and protocol settings need to match of course.
Good luck.
@alesam thank you
is what i was looking for
it is set up and running
steve_mcdonald:
You can use a terminal such as PuTTY on windows to monitor output from the Arduino Serial Port. Start the Arduino first (if for example you need to use the com port to upload code) and then start PuTTY connecting via the COM port your microcontroller is attached to. Speed and protocol settings need to match of course.Good luck.
@steve_mcdonald i actually tried putty, but it didn't work (did not see any reason why), did not give any error messages, it just didn't respond after i click "open".
teraterm sugested by @alesam is working fine
thanks for your reply
I use and recommend hTerm. It's written by an Arduino enthusiast, and it's got all the features we want - monitor and control all the modem control lines, view and send characters as ascii (text), hex, binary, and/or decimal (as in, you can have it show the text as ascii with the hex codes underneath it, or write part of your message as ascii, then the rest as hex - that kind of thing). It's an absolute monster of a serial terminal!
Actually today TeraTerm start printing weird characters, as if the serial speed was wrong.(which was not)
So i installed pyserial and now i'm using miniterm.
Is ok so far
From my experience, RealTerm is a great terminal program for windows. In case it's important, it does allow you fiddle with the DTR signal so e.g. an Arduino does not reboot when you open the serial port; no experience with ESP so not sure how relevant it is in your scenario.
thank you all for the suggestions.
i'm not sure what could be the problem but miniterm too start printing weird characters.
so today, i installed hTerm. let's see if it works ok (it's ok so far).
although the serial monitor (miniterm and teraterm) start printing weird characters, the board was working fine.
maybe someone has an inside on why it started printing the weird characters after some couple of hours.
note: beside all the pros pointed by @DrAzzy, another good thing is that it didn't restart the board in order to make the serial connection.
nunocv:
thank you all for the suggestions.i'm not sure what could be the problem but miniterm too start printing weird characters.
so today, i installed hTerm. let's see if it works ok (it's ok so far).
although the serial monitor (miniterm and teraterm) start printing weird characters, the board was working fine.maybe someone has an inside on why it started printing the weird characters after some couple of hours.
note: beside all the pros pointed by @DrAzzy, another good thing is that it didn't restart the board in order to make the serial connection.
I doubt very much that people can help you if they don't know what's all connected to the board (provide a wiring diagram) and without seeing your code.
No experience with the esp32 so not quite sure. Sounds like memory issues to me; some possible culprits
1)
Although it's reasonably safe to use String (capital S) on ESP devices, it might still create issues due to memory leaks.
2)
Writing outside bounds of arrays.
3)
Recursively calling functions.