Showing Unreadable text the moment I open Serial Monitor

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I tried to set time on a RTC DS3231. After Uploading it with Arduino IDE, I try viewing the output in the Serial Monitor. However, if I start viewing the Serial Monitor, It starts showing encrypted lines. I have tried the example code and yet it shows the same error.

The Setup Code:

#include <DS3231.h>
DS3231  rtc(SDA, SCL);

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(115200);

  rtc.begin();


  rtc.setDOW(SUNDAY);    
  rtc.setTime(02, 17, 0);   
  rtc.setDate(29, 03, 2020);  
}

And the loop code looks like this

void loop()
{
  Serial.print(rtc.getDOWStr());
  Serial.print(" ");


  Serial.print(rtc.getDateStr());
  Serial.print(" -- ");

  Serial.println(rtc.getTimeStr());

  delay (1000);
}

The Screenshot of the Output:

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2

Serial monitor baud rate set to 9600. Serial baud rate in setup() of sketch is set to 115200. The baud rates need to match.

3

Hi,
Welcome to the forum.

Karma for using code tags.

What model Arduino are yo using?

Thanks.. Tom... :slight_smile: